{"id":436372,"date":"2026-04-15T14:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/436372\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:41:07","slug":"taoiseach-says-mcdonald-and-cairns-lack-courage-and-bacik-was-afraid-to-go-into-government-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/436372\/","title":{"rendered":"Taoiseach says McDonald and Cairns lack 'courage' and Bacik was 'afraid' to go into Government – The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Taoiseach says McDonald and Cairns lack ‘courage’ and Bacik was ‘afraid’ to go into Government<\/a>  The Journal<\/li>\n
  2. Mary Lou McDonald urges Government to \u2018pick up the phone\u2019 and talk to protesters<\/a>  laois-nationalist.ie<\/li>\n
  3. Taoiseach accuses Sinn F\u00e9in leader of \u2018lacking courage\u2019 to call out blockades, intimidation by protesters<\/a>  The Irish Times<\/li>\n
  4. Taoiseach says it’s ‘disturbing’ TDs are failing to call blockades wrong<\/a>  Irish Mirror<\/li>\n
  5. Taoiseach: Opposition leaders ‘lacked courage’ during fuel protests<\/a>  Irish Examiner<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taoiseach says McDonald and Cairns lack ‘courage’ and Bacik was ‘afraid’ to go into Government  The Journal Mary Lou…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,7387,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,2335,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-436372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-fallout","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-leaders","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116409249736936104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436372","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=436372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}