{"id":1096239,"date":"2026-07-18T05:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T05:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1096239\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T05:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T05:04:15","slug":"sharp-increase-in-helicopter-traffic-due-to-eu-presidency-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1096239\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp increase in helicopter traffic due to EU presidency \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 I have noticed a sharp increase in helicopter traffic over central Dublin, no doubt linked to Ireland\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/special-reports\/2026\/07\/17\/irelands-european-moment-council-of-eu-presidency-offers-influence-at-key-juncture\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/special-reports\/2026\/07\/17\/irelands-european-moment-council-of-eu-presidency-offers-influence-at-key-juncture\/\">presidency of the Council of the European Union<\/a>. As they circle overhead, I wonder how this activity fits with our greenhouse gas emissions targets? <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Perhaps aviation emissions generated in the service of the EU presidency will be treated like the nitrates derogation \u2013 necessary for Ireland\u2019s particular circumstances and therefore best excluded from the usual calculations? \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">NICOLA KEARNEY,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sandymount,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dublin 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 I have noticed a sharp increase in helicopter traffic over central Dublin, no doubt linked to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1306,21111,2000,299,5187,1699],"class_list":["post-1096239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-aviation","tag-dublin","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116939238086269890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}