{"id":273947,"date":"2026-01-08T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/273947\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:50:09","slug":"taoiseach-and-tanaiste-confirm-that-ireland-is-to-vote-against-controversial-mercosur-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/273947\/","title":{"rendered":"Taoiseach and T\u00e1naiste confirm that Ireland is to vote against controversial Mercosur trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attends an EU Council meeting in Brussels, as Italy\u2019s position emerges as pivotal to the fate of the Mercosur trade deal. Image: Thierry Monasse\/Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/da0721d0-aa22-426a-90ab-881c414aec07.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)\">Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attends an EU Council meeting in Brussels, as Italy\u2019s position emerges as pivotal to the fate of the Mercosur trade deal. Image: Thierry Monasse\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Tabitha Monahan, C\u00f3nal Thomas and Ciaran Moran<\/p>\n<p>Today at 10:50<\/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)\">Ireland is to vote against the controversial Mercosur trade deal, the Taoiseach and T\u00e1naiste have confirmed.<\/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)\">Ahead of the vote at EU level which is expected tomorrow, cracks were emerging within the Coalition, with Independents in Government, including Minister of State Michael Healy Rae stating Ireland should vote against the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREAKING\u00a0|\u00a0 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attends an EU Council meeting in Brussels, as Italy\u2019s position emerges as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,61225,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-273947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-ciaran-moran","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273947","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=273947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}