{"id":498490,"date":"2026-05-23T04:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/498490\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T04:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:02:13","slug":"laois-td-demands-deer-be-tested-for-tb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/498490\/","title":{"rendered":"Laois TD Demands Deer Be Tested For TB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 22 May 2026 16:12\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/62ece9c9bdf56.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Deputy Willie Aird feels the measure is vital.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A Laois TD is questioning why deer are not being tested for Tuberculosis.<\/p>\n<p>At a previous meeting, the Department of Agriculture awarded \u20ac3.6 million to the Farm Relief Services Co-Op to implement a long-term deer population management strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland is experiencing significant deer overpopulation in counties such as Donegal, Wicklow, and Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>Willie Aird says testing deer for TB is vitally important:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 22 May 2026 16:12 Deputy Willie Aird feels the measure is vital. A Laois TD is questioning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[78],"tags":[19870,19869,18,135,19,17,19872,11763,3136,19868,3172,19867,5,3171,5485,19871],"class_list":["post-498490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-eire","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116621905448550030","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498490","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=498490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}