{"id":48675,"date":"2025-09-07T06:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/48675\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T06:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:23:09","slug":"deadlock-in-aras-race-as-new-poll-shows-an-opening-for-sinn-fein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/48675\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadlock in \u00c1ras race as new poll shows an opening for Sinn F\u00e9in"},"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\">Heather Humphreys, Catherine Connolly and Jim Gavin are virtually neck and neck among voters, while Bob Geldof leads wildcards on 7pc\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757226189_488_video.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)\">Sunday Independent | Ireland Thinks Poll: Presidential analysis<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Doyle and Fionn\u00e1n Sheehan<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/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)\">Three likely rivals for the presidential election are essentially locked in a dead heat as the campaign steps up a gear, a new poll for the Sunday Independent\/Ireland Thinks has shown.<\/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)\">But the race could yet be upended if Sinn F\u00e9in leader Mary Lou McDonald enters the race, with the party yet to confirm if they will run a candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heather Humphreys, Catherine Connolly and Jim Gavin are virtually neck and neck among voters, while Bob Geldof leads&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9316,9,10,1921,18,13,14,4771,553,18613,6,19,17,19487,33139,11,12,15,16,16594,5765,6019,5,59,47,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-48675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-billy-kelleher","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-catherine-connolly","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-fianna-fail","16":"tag-fine-gael","17":"tag-fionnan-sheahan","18":"tag-headlines","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-jim-gavin","22":"tag-kevin-doyle","23":"tag-latest-news","24":"tag-latestnews","25":"tag-main-news","26":"tag-mainnews","27":"tag-mary-lou-mcdonald","28":"tag-micheal-martin","29":"tag-michelle-oneill","30":"tag-news","31":"tag-presidential-election","32":"tag-sinn-fein","33":"tag-top-stories","34":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48675","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=48675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}