{"id":153841,"date":"2025-10-30T18:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/153841\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T18:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:49:11","slug":"declan-lynch-maria-steens-tremendous-irony-marty-morrissey-does-his-best-with-kathleen-kennedy-townsend-and-johnny-cash-in-the-dancehalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/153841\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Lynch: Maria Steen\u2019s tremendous irony, Marty Morrissey does his best with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and Johnny Cash in the dancehalls"},"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\">\nRadio reviews\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maria Steen was discussing the lack of choice. Photo: Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Maria Steen 21.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)\">Maria Steen was discussing the lack of choice. Photo: Collins<\/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)\">You could argue that the spoilt votes in the presidential election, especially those on which Maria Steen\u2019s name had been scrawled, were an expression of rage against the \u00adpolitical machine. You could argue that the \u201cestablishment\u201d should just have waved her nomination through, regardless of the rules which bind everyone else.  <\/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)\">But what is beyond argument is the fact there was an irony here \u2013 a tremendous irony \u2013 which you felt sure would finally be raised during her major post-election interview on RT\u00c91\u2019s This Week (RT\u00c91, Sundays, 1pm).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radio reviews Maria Steen was discussing the lack of choice. Photo: Collins You could argue that the spoilt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4573,18,117,19,17,23942,59,24556],"class_list":{"0":"post-153841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-declan-lynch","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-people-culture-magazine","14":"tag-presidential-election","15":"tag-rte-radio-1"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115464618991442322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153841","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=153841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}