{"id":203154,"date":"2025-11-27T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/203154\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:50:13","slug":"we-messed-up-mep-barry-andrews-on-fianna-fails-botched-presidential-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/203154\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We messed up\u2019 \u2013 MEP Barry Andrews on Fianna F\u00e1il\u2019s botched presidential election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MEP Barry Andrews decided not to run for president. Photo: Conor McCabe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/104230607.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)\">MEP Barry Andrews decided not to run for president. Photo: Conor McCabe<\/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)\">Barry Andrews has said he has \u201cno regrets\u201d about his decision not to contest the presidential election and urged Fianna F\u00e1il to he \u201chonest\u201d when it presents an internal party review into its failed campaign.<\/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 Dublin MEP said he was \u201cvery disappointed\u201d that his party \u201cmessed up\u201d its presidential campaign and that it failed to properly assess its candidate, Jim Gavin, who subsequently withdrew from the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEP Barry Andrews decided not to run for president. Photo: Conor McCabe Barry Andrews has said he has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,1921,4767,52,4893,13,14,4771,68,6,19487,11,12,15,16,6644,5765,5,954,59,550,15516,7,8,551,5445,23938,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-203154","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-dail-eireann","12":"tag-dublin","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-fianna-fail","17":"tag-gaza","18":"tag-headlines","19":"tag-jim-gavin","20":"tag-latest-news","21":"tag-latestnews","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-mary-regan","25":"tag-micheal-martin","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-northern-ireland","28":"tag-presidential-election","29":"tag-russia","30":"tag-syria","31":"tag-top-stories","32":"tag-topstories","33":"tag-ukraine","34":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky","35":"tag-windsor-framework","36":"tag-world","37":"tag-world-news","38":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115622224147227177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203154","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=203154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}