{"id":5035,"date":"2025-08-17T13:57:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/5035\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T13:57:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:57:51","slug":"minister-will-do-his-best-to-secure-multi-annual-funding-for-local-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/5035\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister will do his best to secure multi-annual funding for local radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Communications says he will do his best to secure multi-annual funding for local independent radio stations.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, Patrick O\u2019Donovan, yesterday announced an allocation of \u20ac10 million to support public interest journalism.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this allocation, Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n is to include a ring-fenced measure worth \u20ac3 million for commercial radio under the News Reporting Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>This funding aims to enable commercial radio services such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Kerry<\/a>, to provide additional, high-quality news reporting on matters of public interest.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Jerry O\u2019Sullivan on Radio Kerry this morning, Minister O\u2019Donovan stopped short of confirming this funding\u00a0for local radio will be made available in upcoming budgets.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minister for Communications says he will do his best to secure multi-annual funding for local independent radio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,5315,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-5035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-minister","13":"tag-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","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=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}