{"id":186891,"date":"2025-11-18T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/186891\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:00:08","slug":"paschal-donohoe-to-resign-from-government-and-take-up-position-at-world-bank-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/186891\/","title":{"rendered":"Paschal Donohoe to resign from Government and take up position at World Bank \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/paschal-donohoe\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/paschal-donohoe\">Paschal Donohoe<\/a> is to step down as Minister for Finance and take up a position at the World Bank, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cabinet\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cabinet\">Cabinet <\/a>has been told.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is understood that Mr Donohoe has been offered the role of managing director \u2013 effectively the number two position at the bank \u2013 and he has informed Taoiseach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/micheal-martin\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/micheal-martin\">Miche\u00e1l Martin<\/a> and T\u00e1naiste <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/simon-harris\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/simon-harris\">Simon Harris<\/a> that he will accept it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He will step down from his position as Minister for Finance on Tuesday and resign as a TD later this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The board of the bank, the largest development bank in the world, approved the appointment on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">More to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paschal Donohoe is to step down as Minister for Finance and take up a position at the World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[6055,22261,13178,79,5781,18,104977,104978,19,17,1109,104979,104976,104980,790,51693,21188,104981],"class_list":["post-186891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-bulgaria","tag-business","tag-economic","tag-eire","tag-euro-members","tag-finance-ministries","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-media","tag-media-conference","tag-monetary-union","tag-news-conference","tag-politics","tag-press","tag-press-conference","tag-presser"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}