{"id":100905,"date":"2025-10-03T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/100905\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:48:10","slug":"irish-presidential-election-jim-gavin-defends-using-video-from-apolitical-parkrun-event-in-social-media-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/100905\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish presidential election: Jim Gavin defends using video from \u2018apolitical\u2019 Parkrun event in social media campaign"},"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\">Fianna F\u00e1il presidential candidate says he has spoken to his media team after series of gaffes\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fianna F\u00e1il presidential candidate Jim Gavin and Jack Chambers, who took part in the Porterstown Parkrun. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5cb3b12e-108a-420e-b6fe-38c648a14ea5.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)\">Fianna F\u00e1il presidential candidate Jim Gavin and Jack Chambers, who took part in the Porterstown Parkrun. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p>Maeve McTaggart and Conor Feehan<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/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)\">Jim Gavin\u2019s campaign has defended the use of Parkrun in his presidential campaign videos, despite the organisers saying the events \u201cshould never be used to publicise political campaigns of causes\u201d.<\/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)\">The Fianna F\u00e1il candidate\u2019s social \u00admedia video of him taking part in a Parkrun event last weekend has already been subject to controversy over the use of a drone to film it, despite it being in a restricted \u201cred\u201d zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fianna F\u00e1il presidential candidate says he has spoken to his media team after series of gaffes Fianna F\u00e1il&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,2518,18,13,14,4771,6,19,17,26736,19487,11,12,31982,15,16,6644,5,59,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-100905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-conor-feehan","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-fianna-fail","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-jack-chambers","19":"tag-jim-gavin","20":"tag-latest-news","21":"tag-latestnews","22":"tag-maeve-mctaggart","23":"tag-main-news","24":"tag-mainnews","25":"tag-mary-regan","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-presidential-election","28":"tag-top-stories","29":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100905","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=100905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}