{"id":20399,"date":"2025-08-24T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/20399\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:00:14","slug":"bertie-ahern-credits-donald-trump-for-moving-quickly-and-trying-to-end-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/20399\/","title":{"rendered":"Bertie Ahern credits Donald Trump for \u2018moving quickly and trying\u2019 to end Ukraine war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Former taoiseach says Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky will need \u2018hand-holding\u2019 through process\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern says Ukraine needs protection. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SN Bertie 2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern says Ukraine needs protection. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern has credited US president Donald Trump with the speed at which he is progressing talks \u00adbetween Russia and Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">However, the former leader of Fianna F\u00e1il warned peace should not come at all costs and said there is going to have to be \u201ca lot of hand holding\u201d \u00adbetween Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president \u00adVolodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former taoiseach says Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky will need \u2018hand-holding\u2019 through process Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[15526,9,10,356,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,6450,5,5364,550,7,8,551,2263,5445,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-20399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-bertie-ahern","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-nato","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-niamh-horan","22":"tag-russia","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories","25":"tag-ukraine","26":"tag-vladimir-putin","27":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky","28":"tag-world","29":"tag-world-news","30":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20399","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=20399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}