{"id":114076,"date":"2025-10-10T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/114076\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:02:10","slug":"fianna-fails-jim-gavin-repays-former-tenant-e3300-debt-that-cost-him-aras-bid-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/114076\/","title":{"rendered":"Fianna F\u00e1il\u2019s Jim Gavin repays former tenant \u20ac3,300 debt that cost him \u00c1ras bid \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fianna F\u00e1il<\/a>\u2019s former presidential candidate Jim Gavin<\/a> has repaid \u20ac3,300 owed to a former tenant, a debt that led to him withdrawing from the race in dramatic circumstances last weekend. <\/p>\n

A source close to Mr Gavin confirmed he had repaid the money to Sunday World journalist Niall Donald who had rented an apartment from the former Dublin GAA manager more than 16 years ago.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin<\/a>, who was to the fore in pushing the candidacy of Mr Gavin, has confirmed that he now plans to vote for Fine Gael presidential candidate Heather Humphreys<\/a> in the forthcoming election<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Speaking during a visit to Millstreet, Co Cork, on Friday, Mr Martin was coy in relation to whether it would be his first time voting for a Fine Gael<\/a> candidate in an election. <\/p>\n

He said his \u201cpersonal position\u201d was to vote for Heather Humphreys.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0This presidential election could be about to get even weirderOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

\u201cIn terms of my own personal position, and it will be a personal decision, I am pro-European passionately, I am pro the European Union. I am pro the enterprise economy,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cOf the two candidates the person that is closest to those perspectives is Heather obviously. Heather is closest to that orientation. And that is important as the European situation is central to the transformation of Ireland over the last 50-odd years.\u201d <\/p>\n

Mr Martin denied that the presidential election<\/a> was a referendum on the Government.<\/p>\n

\"\"Head-to-head: Presidential election gets confrontational<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople actually do distinguish between a presidential election and every other type of election. So it [a referendum on the Government] is a false premise to put [to voters].\u201d <\/p>\n

He said while some Opposition parties were trying to do so, the sentiment \u201cundermined\u201d the office of the president. <\/p>\n

The Taoiseach also stressed he would not be giving any direction to Fianna F\u00e1il members on how they should vote on October 24th, following the withdrawal of Mr Gavin from the race.<\/p>\n

Ms Humphreys, meanwhile, dismissed suggestions her party was involved in a smear campaign against her rival Catherine Connolly. <\/p>\n

She was responding to reporters\u2019 questions following former Fine Gael minister Ivan Yates\u2019 suggestion that he would \u201csmear the bejaysus\u201d out of Ms Connolly if he was still in politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not involved in any smear campaign,\u201d said Ms Humphreys, speaking in Wexford.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis to me is a fair campaign between myself and Catherine Connolly and ultimately people will have to make up their own minds as to which of us will be the best 10th president of Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Joe Brolly video depicting sex act by presidential candidate is \u2018misogynistic\u2019, says Heather HumphreysOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Ms Humphreys also condemned as \u201cmisogynistic\u201d a video in circulation<\/a> of Joe Brolly performing what is being referred to as a sex act. <\/p>\n

Mr Brolly later clarified that the impression \u201chad nothing whatsoever to do with the presidential candidates\u201d.<\/p>\n

In response, Ms Humphreys said it \u201cwas against women and I think for women to have to endure that type of comment is not right \u2013 it\u2019s wrong, I will stand up for the women of Ireland and I\u2019m certainly not let it stop me in my tracks in forging onwards and trying to win this election campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fianna F\u00e1il\u2019s former presidential candidate Jim Gavin has repaid \u20ac3,300 owed to a former tenant, a debt that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,1921,18,13,14,6,555,19,17,11,12,15,16,5765,5,59,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-114076","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-catherine-connolly","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-heather-humphreys","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-micheal-martin","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-presidential-election","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114076","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=114076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}