{"id":141866,"date":"2025-10-24T03:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/141866\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T03:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:04:17","slug":"oliver-callan-heather-humphreys-can-blame-a-craicless-fine-gael-while-catherine-connolly-has-the-lenient-left-to-thank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/141866\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Callan: Heather Humphreys can blame a craicless Fine Gael, while Catherine Connolly has the lenient left to thank"},"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\">In this presidential election, the oh-so-quiet voice of Connolly has won out, while Humphreys was left looking like a frightened \u2018Winning Streak\u2019 contestant\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heather Humphreys and T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris before the Leinster v Munster rugby match at Croke Park, Dublin, last weekend. Photo: Tom Honan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b3d9d565-ccce-4b2a-931a-433cc911bf71.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)\">Heather Humphreys and T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris before the Leinster v Munster rugby match at Croke Park, Dublin, last weekend. Photo: Tom Honan<\/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)\">It\u2019s been a wild few weeks. From Jim Gavin\u2019s white trousers, Catherine\u2019s astonishing keepy-uppies, Heather\u2019s \u201ceh-eh\u201ds to Fianna F\u00e1il\u2019s Jim O\u2019Callaghan defending the most lefty candidate for the \u00c1ras ever.<\/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)\">Winning the backing of a Sandymount barrister who looks like he stepped out of a portrait on the wall of the King\u2019s Inns wine cellar doesn\u2019t exactly scream socialism, but in 2025 anything goes when you\u2019re desperate enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this presidential election, the oh-so-quiet voice of Connolly has won out, while Humphreys was left looking like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,1921,18,13,14,4771,553,6,555,19,17,26735,19487,11,12,15,16,30839,5,954,59,44,47,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-141866","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-fianna-fail","15":"tag-fine-gael","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-heather-humphreys","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-jim-ocallaghan","21":"tag-jim-gavin","22":"tag-latest-news","23":"tag-latestnews","24":"tag-main-news","25":"tag-mainnews","26":"tag-martin-heydon","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-northern-ireland","29":"tag-presidential-election","30":"tag-simon-harris","31":"tag-sinn-fein","32":"tag-top-stories","33":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115426929261072045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141866","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=141866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}