{"id":240330,"date":"2025-12-19T03:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/240330\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T03:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:25:13","slug":"gaa-president-jarlath-burns-confirms-he-was-approached-to-run-in-the-irish-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/240330\/","title":{"rendered":"GAA president Jarlath Burns confirms he was approached to run in the Irish Presidential 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\">GAA chief also says new Philanthropic Fund can draw on \u2018incredible goodwill\u2019 for infrastructure projects\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GAA president Jarlath Burns\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3200689.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)\">GAA president Jarlath Burns<\/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 GAA president Jarlath Burns has confirmed that he was approached to run for \u00c1ras an Uachtar\u00e1in for the recent Irish Presidential election but declined.<\/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)\">Addressing the Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communication, Culture and Sport yesterday as part of an integration delegation discussing progress towards the planned merger of the three Gaelic games organisations in 2027, Burns was asked by one of the committee members, Wicklow\/Wexford TD Brian Brennan, if there had been an approach to be a candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAA chief also says new Philanthropic Fund can draw on \u2018incredible goodwill\u2019 for infrastructure projects GAA president Jarlath&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,5286,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-240330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-gaa","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115744101760059426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240330","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=240330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}