{"id":46878,"date":"2025-09-06T07:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/46878\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T07:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:31:09","slug":"presidential-election-jim-gavin-kept-out-of-spotlight-as-micheal-martin-to-put-pressure-on-undecideds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/46878\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential election: Jim Gavin kept out of spotlight, as Miche\u00e1l Martin to put pressure on undecideds"},"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\">\u200bBilly Kelleher vows to keep fighting for the party\u2019s nomination\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jim Gavin, former Dublin GAA football manager, has the backing of Miche\u00e1l Martin. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/d01db235-e23c-438e-ab23-6c0ff96faaae.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)\">Jim Gavin, former Dublin GAA football manager, has the backing of Miche\u00e1l Martin. Photo: 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)\">Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin is to put the squeeze on Fianna F\u00e1il backbenchers who have not said who they will back for the presidential nomination.<\/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)\">Ireland South MEP Billy Kelleher has vowed to fight on as the underdog for the party\u2019s nod, while leadership favourite Jim Gavin has been kept away from media engagements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200bBilly Kelleher vows to keep fighting for the party\u2019s nomination Jim Gavin, former Dublin GAA football manager, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9316,9,10,18,13,14,4771,6,19,17,19487,11,12,15,16,5765,5,59,30656,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-46878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-billy-kelleher","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-fianna-fail","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-jim-gavin","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-micheal-martin","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-presidential-election","26":"tag-tabitha-monahan","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46878","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=46878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}