{"id":195673,"date":"2025-11-23T08:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/195673\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T08:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:11:10","slug":"gerry-the-monk-hutch-100pc-committed-to-contesting-dublin-central-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/195673\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerry \u2018The Monk\u2019 Hutch \u2018100pc\u2019 committed to contesting Dublin Central by-election"},"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\">Veteran criminal expected to launch bid to claim seat vacated by Paschal Donohoe\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gerry Hutch at a Dublin count centre following general election. Photo: Reuters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SN Count.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)\">Gerry Hutch at a Dublin count centre following general election. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Ali Bracken and C\u00f3nal Thomas<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/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)\">Gerry \u2018The Monk\u2019 Hutch will stand in the upcoming by-election in Dublin Central in his second bid to become a TD and shake up the political establishment. <\/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 62-year-old is determined to contest the seat vacated last week following the departure of Fine Gael\u2019s Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe, sources close to Hutch told the Sunday Independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran criminal expected to launch bid to claim seat vacated by Paschal Donohoe Gerry Hutch at a Dublin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,1921,18,13,14,4771,553,92241,6,19,17,9170,55901,9171,11,12,15,16,5,46,108674,47,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-195673","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-gerry-hutch","17":"tag-headlines","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-ivana-bacik","21":"tag-kinahan-cartel","22":"tag-labour-party","23":"tag-latest-news","24":"tag-latestnews","25":"tag-main-news","26":"tag-mainnews","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-paschal-donohoe","29":"tag-regency-trial","30":"tag-sinn-fein","31":"tag-top-stories","32":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115598006098034532","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195673","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=195673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}