{"id":326833,"date":"2026-02-08T13:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/326833\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:47:16","slug":"ill-lead-fianna-fail-into-the-next-general-election-says-micheal-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/326833\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll lead Fianna F\u00e1il into the next general election, says Miche\u00e1l Martin"},"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\">Taoiseach criticises US President Donald Trump\u2019s \u2018over the top\u2019 migration policies He admits he took his eye off the ball around the recent Jim Gavin presidential election campaignOn farmers\u2019 protests, he says, \u2018I was very taken aback by how all of that developed\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Miche\u00e1l Martin\u2019s focus is on housing and disability. Photo: Daragh McSweeney\/Provision\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9aa3d44d-fa4c-4f33-bdf0-af46e3a509fd.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)\">Miche\u00e1l Martin\u2019s focus is on housing and disability. Photo: Daragh McSweeney\/Provision<\/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)\">Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has vowed that he will lead Fianna F\u00e1il into the next general election, and insisted he won\u2019t be stepping down as leader when Simon Harris becomes taoiseach next year.<\/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)\">After a turbulent year for his party, Mr Martin appears to have warded off any threats of a heave against him, following a disastrous presidential election campaign in which his chosen candidate, Jim Gavin, withdrew from the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taoiseach criticises US President Donald Trump\u2019s \u2018over the top\u2019 migration policies He admits he took his eye off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15526,9,10,141780,356,18,4893,13,14,4771,68,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,6644,5765,5,44,85396,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-326833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-bertie-ahern","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-brian-cowen","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-featured-news","16":"tag-featurednews","17":"tag-fianna-fail","18":"tag-gaza","19":"tag-headlines","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-latest-news","23":"tag-latestnews","24":"tag-main-news","25":"tag-mainnews","26":"tag-mary-regan","27":"tag-micheal-martin","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-simon-harris","30":"tag-st-patricks-day","31":"tag-top-stories","32":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116035324669009391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326833","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=326833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}