{"id":131978,"date":"2025-10-19T12:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T12:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131978\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T12:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T12:24:10","slug":"taoiseach-launches-veiled-attack-on-presidential-candidate-catherine-connolly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131978\/","title":{"rendered":"Taoiseach launches veiled attack on Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly"},"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\">Remarks at annual FF Wolfe Tone commemoration at Bodenstown suggest she is \u2018not pro-EU\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Taoiseach Micheal Martin (Brian Lawless\/PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2b800742-5ad4-4a9e-a126-35bff8919210.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)\">Taoiseach Micheal Martin (Brian Lawless\/PA)<\/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 Taoiseach has launched a veiled attack on Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly.<\/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)\">Miche\u00e1l Martin was speaking at the annual Fianna F\u00e1il Wolfe Tone commemoration at Bodenstown, Co. Kildare today, where he criticised people who claim they are pro-EU, but also complain about Ireland losing sovereignty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remarks at annual FF Wolfe Tone commemoration at Bodenstown suggest she is \u2018not pro-EU\u2019 Taoiseach Micheal Martin (Brian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,23,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-131978","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-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latest-news-ticker","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\/131978","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=131978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}