{"id":313736,"date":"2026-01-31T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/313736\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:47:08","slug":"families-being-crucified-by-food-price-hikes-doherty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/313736\/","title":{"rendered":"Families being &#8220;crucified&#8221; by food price hikes &#8211; Doherty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donegal Deputy Pearse Doherty says that families are being \u201ccrucified\u201d by the rising price of food.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Sinn F\u00e9in Finance Spokesperson made the comments after the Central Statistics Office released its latest set of EU Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) figures yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CSO, food prices have increased by 3.9% since January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Doherty says that the price increases are \u201cnot sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood prices going up at this rate is not sustainable. Ordinary workers and families are getting crucified,\u201d the deputy said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are hit hardest because they spend a large share of their wages just trying to put food on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are getting it from every angle as the government has failed to end the rip-off and get prices under control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have been left struggling through the winter by a government that refuses to help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInflation has raced ahead of what was projected on budget day when the government decided to pull all cost of living supports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood prices still rising at a pace of 3.9% should be sending alarm bells ringing in the government. But still, we see no action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urgently need to empower the competition regulator to deliver far greater transparency in terms of both pricing and profits for food companies and large supermarkets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Families being \u201ccrucified\u201d by food price hikes \u2013 Doherty was last modified:  January 31st, 2026 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donegal Deputy Pearse Doherty says that families are being \u201ccrucified\u201d by the rising price of food. The Sinn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,179,18,19,17,9649],"class_list":["post-313736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pearse-doherty"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115991205841658110","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313736","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=313736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}