{"id":297530,"date":"2026-01-22T11:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/297530\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:19:09","slug":"president-connolly-cancels-todays-engagements-after-husband-falls-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/297530\/","title":{"rendered":"President Connolly cancels today\u2019s engagements after husband falls ill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President-elect Catherine Connolly and Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin at Dublin Castle last weekend. Photo: Niall Carson\/PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5985914f-b8da-4cb7-be18-0afeb928595e.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)\">President-elect Catherine Connolly and Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin at Dublin Castle last weekend. Photo: Niall Carson\/PA<\/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)\">President Catherine Connolly has cancelled her engagements for today after her husband became unwell at an event yesterday.<\/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)\">President Connolly was at an annual event to meet ambassadors and consular representatives at \u00c1ras an Uachtar\u00e1in when her husband, Brian McEnery, took ill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President-elect Catherine Connolly and Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin at Dublin Castle last weekend. Photo: Niall Carson\/PA President Catherine Connolly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,2518,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-297530","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-conor-feehan","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115938483486454179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297530","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=297530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}