{"id":135443,"date":"2025-10-21T06:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/135443\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T06:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:17:08","slug":"labour-td-apologises-for-defending-paul-murphy-after-heather-humphreys-water-protest-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/135443\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour TD apologises for defending Paul Murphy after Heather Humphreys water protest statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Presidential candidate Heather Humphreys tries a harp in a shop while canvassing in Gorey, Co Wexford. Photo: Gr\u00e1inne N\u00ed Aodha\/PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IRISH Pre (31).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 tries a harp in a shop while canvassing in Gorey, Co Wexford. Photo: Gr\u00e1inne N\u00ed Aodha\/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)\">First-time Labour TD Ciar\u00e1n Ahern has apologised to his Labour Party colleagues after his tweet defending the People Before Profit Solidarity TD Paul Murphy caused \u201ca lot of hurt\u201d across the party.<\/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)\">His post on X followed comments by Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys relating to the treatment of former Labour leader Joan Burton at an anti-water charges protest in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presidential candidate Heather Humphreys tries a harp in a shop while canvassing in Gorey, Co Wexford. Photo: Gr\u00e1inne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,1921,18,13,14,6,555,19,17,11,12,15,16,6644,5,59,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-135443","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-mary-regan","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\/135443","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=135443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}