{"id":109573,"date":"2025-10-08T20:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/109573\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T20:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:23:12","slug":"catherine-connolly-her-work-for-the-banks-and-her-repossessions-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/109573\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Connolly, her work for the banks, and her repossessions silence"},"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\">Presidential candidate previously said claim she was barrister for Bank of Scotland Ireland was a \u2018cowardly personal attack\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly speaking to the media during a visit to the offices of Alone in Dublin. Picture date: Wednesday October 8, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Niall Carson\/PA Wire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IRISH Pre (64).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)\">Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly speaking to the media during a visit to the offices of Alone in Dublin. Picture date: Wednesday October 8, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Niall Carson\/PA Wire<\/p>\n<p>Eavan Murray and Maeve McTaggart<\/p>\n<p>Today at 20:50<\/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)\">O\u2019Reilly\u2019s bar in Salthill faces out towards the choppy waters of Galway Bay, but it was the scene of a stormy exchange that Catherine Connolly described as \u201ca cowardly personal attack\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 Independent TD was accused by a Fine Gael councillor of representing a bank in repossession cases, despite \u201cjumping up and down\u201d about housing and homelessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presidential candidate previously said claim she was barrister for Bank of Scotland Ireland was a \u2018cowardly personal attack\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,1921,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-109573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-catherine-connolly","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109573","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=109573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}