{"id":42128,"date":"2025-09-04T02:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/42128\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T02:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:08:11","slug":"irish-president-michael-d-higgins-is-nasty-little-man-dup-councillor-callum-bowsie-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/42128\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish president Michael D Higgins is \u2018nasty little man\u2019, DUP councillor Callum Bowsie claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President Michael D Higgins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/f247ecf3-0025-4a58-a63d-987913bd0277.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">President Michael D Higgins<\/p>\n<p>Donal McMahon, Local Democracy Reporter<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at 12:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The DUP has rejected a council thank you letter to the President of Ireland with one councillor calling him a \u201cnasty, condescending little man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Newry, Mourne and Down District Council agreed by majority vote this week to write to Michael D Higgins as he retires after 14 years as Irish head of state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Michael D Higgins Donal McMahon, Local Democracy Reporter Yesterday at 12:30 The DUP has rejected a council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,31778,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,1874,31779,11605,5,31780,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-42128","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-democratic-unionist-party","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-michael-d-higgins","19":"tag-mourne-and-down-district-council","20":"tag-newry","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-sdlp","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories","25":"tag-world","26":"tag-world-news","27":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42128","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=42128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}