{"id":343429,"date":"2026-02-18T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/343429\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:20:08","slug":"government-confirms-plan-to-restrict-social-media-for-teenagers-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/343429\/","title":{"rendered":"Government confirms plan to restrict social media for teenagers &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMie0FVX3lxTE9YeXB5Q1ozdkhnT0dOU1dIdTFzbC02ZUlxS3VVcTdkMzdNUHJLSGpIV0d0Rmk0UklJYVlPQ1F2NndJaE5UZ29ub2RJcDVDOG5BSTE2S05GWmlFcHk3ZTZZMTltTXZtS2xsTDVwaTBFd3cyRUo5WFhERG1rWQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Government confirms plan to restrict social media for teenagers<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMigwFBVV95cUxNZ01nQml2NjhGdEU2U2RoMk1XbjZrQm85di1tYkJEUGJZVl9GMFo3dThJNjZ6VEZ0eGtfUkc0MDBVSXJpZ3JCVGFnSDljYTVRWmRxbnVDYzBiLVVmSndYd0Q3S3k4QlZ0TXVzSnZENTV1eTJqOFJJZ3ZQbk5kQ0FMTGpwZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Govt to confirm plans for social media age restrictions<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwAFBVV95cUxNVlpBUFNBUlREWWk0T2ZZZEhOM1lLS1p5anVtd3JRc21TR0hFRW1yX094bFBzbjhvWUEwczE0RGlEWDZrbUlMWW1IMDNyU3B6NW1VMW03SnVxeW9wLVJ0V29uM2hqUFJYdG9HSUtucV9ZWjZZMXhIMFh1UlpsRUwwUTFzQ25Xc1c3Vk1pN3ZDTEwxcVpWT0FPSTlqeHlGQW5EODVEY0FTWjMwSEJtNUFjTm0yU09wUXVLSC1Qd29LT0w?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New digital and AI strategy to confirm plans for under-16s social media ban<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE5xTE9pTTNBT0FhaEZvelgxUGg0ZlVYdEZncHprLUozenNwUWZJSjhUdm04d18yRkZTTG54R0lMS3hVU3k3S0NMck1DajVhMzdmSVd2Rm9vT1NrQVV6cWVJVl92RzNhZGJ1WS1VQzZEOEtueGNxVk9lSE92cWhWTG8?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walsh welcomes plan for social media ban<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Midwest Radio<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiY0FVX3lxTE9oc3ZsVGxpZUNEZWM3THl3UnZseUdVV2VqU0ZYaElPRVdsTlFuSmJablRuVmVMNkFCWV90b1hNZlB3aFBaR2JPZXVadTRiUGoySzNCSEhVWHhIeVVmeWtzcGZ1WQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Government to introduce social media ban for under-16s in online safety push<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Examiner<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Government confirms plan to restrict social media for teenagers&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal Govt to confirm plans for social media age&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[162373,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,1114,120937,7,8,162374],"class_list":{"0":"post-343429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-age-restrictions","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-social-media","23":"tag-social-media-ban","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories","26":"tag-under-16s"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116091369941082676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343429","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=343429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}