{"id":111871,"date":"2025-10-09T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/111871\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:00:11","slug":"debate-sparks-fly-as-heather-humphreys-links-catherine-connolly-to-neville-chamberlains-1930s-appeasement-of-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/111871\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate sparks fly as Heather Humphreys links Catherine Connolly to Neville Chamberlain&#8217;s 1930s appeasement of Hitler"},"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\">The two candidates set out their stall \u2013 with international viewpoints proving the biggest divide\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Presidential candidate Heather Humphreys canvassing along the Grand Canal in Dublin. Photo: Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/98c2f652-61ae-467f-809f-9d108ba59e07.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)\">Presidential candidate Heather Humphreys canvassing along the Grand Canal in Dublin. 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)\">Heather Humphreys has suggested that Catherine Connolly&#8217;s international outlook is akin to Neville Chamberlain&#8217;s 1930s appeasement of Adolf Hitler.<\/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 two candidates clashed on RT\u00c9 Radio 1&#8217;s Drivetime programme today with Sarah McInerney and Cormac \u00d3 hEadhra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two candidates set out their stall \u2013 with international viewpoints proving the biggest divide Presidential candidate Heather&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[69392,9,10,1921,18,13,14,553,2220,68,6621,6,555,3847,8752,19,56,17,71,9171,11,12,15,16,5,72,59,1181,24556,550,34340,47,7,8,551,2263],"class_list":{"0":"post-111871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-arlene-foster","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-catherine-connolly","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-fine-gael","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-gaza","18":"tag-germany","19":"tag-headlines","20":"tag-heather-humphreys","21":"tag-housing","22":"tag-housing-crisis","23":"tag-ie","24":"tag-immigration","25":"tag-ireland","26":"tag-israel","27":"tag-labour-party","28":"tag-latest-news","29":"tag-latestnews","30":"tag-main-news","31":"tag-mainnews","32":"tag-news","33":"tag-palestine","34":"tag-presidential-election","35":"tag-rte","36":"tag-rte-radio-1","37":"tag-russia","38":"tag-senan-molony","39":"tag-sinn-fein","40":"tag-top-stories","41":"tag-topstories","42":"tag-ukraine","43":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111871","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=111871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}