{"id":108387,"date":"2025-10-08T08:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/108387\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T08:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:37:12","slug":"it-is-well-known-they-cant-stand-each-other-connolly-campaign-wont-take-down-video-featuring-michael-d-higgins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/108387\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It is well known they can&#8217;t stand each other&#8217;: Connolly campaign won&#8217;t take down video featuring Michael D Higgins"},"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\">Video also features clips of Mary McAleese and Mary Robinson\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Catherine Connolly canvasses yesterday at Labre Park in Kylemore, Dublin, Ireland\u2019s oldest halting site. Photo: Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nolly Canvassing_19.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)\">Catherine Connolly canvasses yesterday at Labre Park in Kylemore, Dublin, Ireland\u2019s oldest halting site. Photo: Collins<\/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)\">Catherine Connolly\u2019s team is refusing to remove a campaign video that features a clip of Michael D Higgins used without his permission.<\/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 video features a succession of supporters praising Ms Connolly, and uses short clips of President Higgins as well as his predecessors Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese, although they are not speaking about Ms Connolly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video also features clips of Mary McAleese and Mary Robinson Catherine Connolly canvasses yesterday at Labre Park in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1921,46967,18,19,17,1874,59,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-108387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-catherine-connolly","9":"tag-eavan-murray","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-michael-d-higgins","14":"tag-presidential-election","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108387","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=108387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}