{"id":455270,"date":"2026-04-26T21:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/455270\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T21:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:55:15","slug":"sinn-fein-calls-for-usc-cuts-energy-credits-plus-an-end-to-carbon-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/455270\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in calls for USC cuts, energy credits, plus an end to carbon tax"},"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\">Mary Lou McDonald demands \u2018emergency budget\u2019 but refuses to predict success in by-election\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Finucane at the Sinn F\u00e9in ard fheis. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/88d3a5d0-6394-.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)\">John Finucane at the Sinn F\u00e9in ard fheis. Photo: PA<\/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)\">Sinn F\u00e9in has called for a permanent cut to the Universal Social Charge (USC) and the complete removal of carbon tax on home heating oil and green diesel.<\/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)\">Addressing party members at its annual ard fheis in Belfast on Saturday, Sinn F\u00e9in leader Mary Lou McDonald hit out at the Coalition, saying the Irish public had been \u201cleft high and dry by a Government that simply refuses to listen\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary Lou McDonald demands \u2018emergency budget\u2019 but refuses to predict success in by-election John Finucane at the Sinn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,4771,553,6,11,12,15,16,16594,5,47,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-455270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-fianna-fail","13":"tag-fine-gael","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-mary-lou-mcdonald","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-sinn-fein","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-world","25":"tag-world-news","26":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116473241717194053","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455270","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=455270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}