{"id":398114,"date":"2026-03-22T12:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/398114\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T12:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:13:14","slug":"house-builder-michael-oflynn-pauses-new-contracts-amid-huge-concern-over-iran-war-price-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/398114\/","title":{"rendered":"House-builder Michael O\u2019Flynn pauses new contracts amid \u2018huge concern\u2019 over Iran war price rises"},"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\">Developer warns conflict in Middle East means companies cannot commit to big projects\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Developer Michael O'Flynn. Photo: Douglas O'Connor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SN O1Flynn (3).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)\">Developer Michael O&#8217;Flynn. Photo: Douglas O&#8217;Connor<\/p>\n<p>Niamh Horan and C\u00f3nal Thomas<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/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)\">One of Ireland\u2019s biggest home-builders has paused signing any new fixed contracts for housing developments until there is a clear timeline on when the war in the Middle East will end.<\/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)\">Developer Michael O\u2019Flynn told the Sunday Independent there is \u201chuge concern\u201d in the construction industry over potential inflated prices on supplies, given the global turmoil caused by the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Developer warns conflict in Middle East means companies cannot commit to big projects Developer Michael O&#8217;Flynn. Photo: Douglas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,92909,13458,18,3847,8752,19,18929,17,4770,5364,9649,44],"class_list":["post-398114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-conal-thomas","tag-darragh-obrien","tag-eire","tag-housing","tag-housing-crisis","tag-ie","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-james-browne","tag-niamh-horan","tag-pearse-doherty","tag-simon-harris"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116272772431301651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398114","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=398114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}