{"id":38338,"date":"2025-09-02T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/38338\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:58:11","slug":"irha-warns-of-economic-threat-amid-lack-of-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/38338\/","title":{"rendered":"IRHA Warns Of Economic Threat Amid Lack Of Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Monday, 1 September 2025 11:27\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/68b575119616a.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The association says the shortage will drive up grocery prices.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Irish Road Haulage Association is warning the country&#8217;s Christmas economy will grind to a halt if moves aren&#8217;t made to secure new drivers.<\/p>\n<p>President of the IRHA, Ger Hyland believes around 4,000 new HGV drivers are needed with three months to go before the festive rush.<\/p>\n<p>The association says the shortage will drive up grocery prices and delay deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>The Laois man ways the sector is crying out for new blood:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 1 September 2025 11:27 The association says the shortage will drive up grocery prices. The Irish Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[19870,19869,79,179,18,19,17,19872,11763,3136,19868,3172,19867,5,3171,5485,19871],"class_list":{"0":"post-38338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-broadcast","9":"tag-broadcasting","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-irish-news","16":"tag-laois","17":"tag-local-news","18":"tag-local-radio","19":"tag-midlands","20":"tag-midlands-103","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-offaly","23":"tag-radio","24":"tag-westmeath"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38338","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=38338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}