{"id":98038,"date":"2025-10-02T00:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98038\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T00:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:35:09","slug":"mcguirk-the-greens-are-still-driving-irish-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98038\/","title":{"rendered":"MCGUIRK: The Greens are still driving Irish inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cGrocery price inflation remains elevated in the context of overall inflation, a reflection of higher energy costs at a producer level.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d not have gotten that line if you hadn\u2019t read to paragraph ten of yesterday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2025\/09\/30\/inflation-in-irish-economy-jumps-back-to-almost-3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Irish Times report<\/a> on the increase in inflation in September to almost three per cent. Nor, to be frank, were you likely to understand it unless your written English comprehension was at leaving cert level or beyond. Apparently, \u201cgrocery prices have gone up more than prices as a whole\u201d was too simplistic for the editorial team at the IT to countenance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cGrocery price inflation remains elevated in the context of overall inflation, a reflection of higher energy costs at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2567,79,10459,442,2190,37852,18,7520,13181,18577,19,185,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-98038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-butter","11":"tag-climate-change","12":"tag-cost-of-living","13":"tag-eamon-ryan","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-energy","16":"tag-farming","17":"tag-green-party","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-inflation","20":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98038","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=98038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}