{"id":30230,"date":"2025-08-29T06:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/30230\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T06:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:25:10","slug":"jobs-warning-as-silent-slowdown-hammers-irish-smes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/30230\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobs warning as \u2018silent slowdown\u2019 hammers Irish SMEs"},"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\">Government called on to take urgent action and support \u2018the backbone of the Irish economy\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Small and medium businesses are struggling to make ends meet. Photo: Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ff85a825-0e89-46ef-9691-54c551e723fc.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)\">Small and medium businesses are struggling to make ends meet. Photo: Stock image<\/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)\">Irish small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have burned through their reserves of cash and favours from suppliers and are heading for a 2012-style crisis with major jobs implications, according to one of the country\u2019s top accountants.<\/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)\">This \u201csilent slowdown\u201d is a major threat to jobs, with unemployment having already crept up from 3.9pc to 4.9pc, according to Neil Hughes, CEO of Azets Ireland, which advises around 4,000 Irish businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Government called on to take urgent action and support \u2018the backbone of the Irish economy\u2019 Small and medium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[10472,79,10891,18,19,17,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-30230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-budget-2026","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-donal-odonovan","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-paschal-donohoe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30230","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=30230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}