{"id":37158,"date":"2025-09-01T19:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/37158\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T19:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:57:07","slug":"bob-geldof-speaks-to-micheal-martin-about-presidency-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/37158\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Geldof speaks to Miche\u00e1l Martin about presidency \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/micheal-martin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/micheal-martin\/\">Miche\u00e1l Martin<\/a> has told musician and campaigner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/bob-geldof\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/bob-geldof\/\">Bob Geldof<\/a> he was not in a position to nominate him as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fianna-fail\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fianna-fail\/\">Fianna F\u00e1il<\/a>\u2019s presidential candidate and that he had made a commitment to former Dublin GAA manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/jim-gavin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/jim-gavin\/\">Jim Gavin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Reports of Geldof\u2019s name featuring among a list of potential presidential candidates emerged on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"www.irishtimes.com\/politics\/2025\/09\/01\/sean-kelly-withdraws-from-race-for-fine-gaels-presidential-nomination-clearing-path-for-heather-humphreys\/\">Se\u00e1n Kelly withdraws from race for Fine Gael\u2019s presidential nomination, clearing path for Heather Humphreys<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A number of prominent people at home and abroad are known to have approached Fianna F\u00e1il in relation to the upcoming election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">There was contact made on behalf of Geldof, the driving force behind Live Aid and Band Aid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is understood the Taoiseach rang him on Friday as a courtesy and they had a serious and good engagement regarding the presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miche\u00e1l Martin has told musician and campaigner Bob Geldof he was not in a position to nominate him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[21088,18,117,19,17,19487,5765,59],"class_list":{"0":"post-37158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bob-geldof","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-jim-gavin","14":"tag-micheal-martin","15":"tag-presidential-election"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37158","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=37158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}