{"id":189163,"date":"2025-11-19T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/189163\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:19:10","slug":"i-never-had-a-burning-desire-to-be-taoiseach-paschal-donohoe-on-ambitions-gerry-the-monk-hutch-potentially-taking-his-seat-and-covid-regrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/189163\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I never had a burning desire to be Taoiseach\u2019 \u2013 Paschal Donohoe on ambitions, Gerry \u2018The Monk\u2019 Hutch potentially taking his seat and Covid regrets"},"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\">He described the role of finance minister as \u2018all I\u2019ve ever wanted to do\u2019, insisting he never wished to assume leadership of Fine Gael\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paschal Donohoe has stepped down as finance minister to take up the World Bank role. Photo: Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a1f446db-8d22-43ef-838c-853a826346b0.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)\">Paschal Donohoe has stepped down as finance minister to take up the World Bank role. 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)\">Former finance minister Paschal Donohoe has said he never had any ambition to become taoiseach during his lengthy career in politics.<\/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 Fine Gael TD for Dublin Central announced yesterday that he would be vacating his ministerial position to take up the role of managing director and chief knowledge officer in the World Bank in Washington DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He described the role of finance minister as \u2018all I\u2019ve ever wanted to do\u2019, insisting he never wished&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,160,4767,71760,18,13,14,553,92241,6,19,17,125,11,12,15,16,5,46,1181,24556,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-189163","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-coronavirus","11":"tag-dail-eireann","12":"tag-department-of-finance-dof","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-fine-gael","17":"tag-gerry-hutch","18":"tag-headlines","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-keith-kelly","22":"tag-latest-news","23":"tag-latestnews","24":"tag-main-news","25":"tag-mainnews","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-paschal-donohoe","28":"tag-rte","29":"tag-rte-radio-1","30":"tag-top-stories","31":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115577039545906187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189163","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=189163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}