{"id":148125,"date":"2025-10-27T17:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148125\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:16:13","slug":"mary-kenny-catherine-connolly-was-one-of-14-children-its-no-surprise-shes-a-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148125\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Kenny: Catherine Connolly was one of 14 children \u2013 it\u2019s no surprise she\u2019s a fighter"},"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\">Although the president-elect says she learnt equality from growing up in a big family, sometimes favouritism can develop\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Catherine Connolly shakes hands with her presidential rival Heather Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761585373_7_video.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)\">Catherine Connolly shakes hands with her presidential rival Heather Humphreys<\/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)\">One of the reasons Catherine Connolly is so committed to equality, she has said, is that she was brought up in a family of 14 children. As one of seven sisters and seven brothers, she has stressed, fairness had to be the iron rule of the household.<\/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)\">This is a revealing glimpse into Ms Connolly\u2019s formation, which must have been challenging in other ways, too, since she lost her mother when she was only nine. But being part of a very big family makes her, by definition, an unusual person in today\u2019s society and may lend a unique element to her personality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although the president-elect says she learnt equality from growing up in a big family, sometimes favouritism can develop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,1921,13,14,78691,6,11,12,15,16,87237,5,7,8,385,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-148125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-catherine-connolly","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-ghislaine-maxwell","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-mary-kenny","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-turkey","24":"tag-world","25":"tag-world-news","26":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115447266311179411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148125","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=148125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}