{"id":54586,"date":"2025-09-10T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/54586\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T06:10:09","slug":"taoiseach-micheal-martin-receives-shot-across-bows-from-fianna-fail-backbenchers-after-tight-vote-on-presidential-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/54586\/","title":{"rendered":"Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin receives shot across bows from Fianna F\u00e1il backbenchers after tight vote on presidential nomination"},"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\">Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has been delivered a shot across the bow from Fianna F\u00e1il backbenchersFormer Dublin football manager Jim Gavin beat Ireland South MEP Billy Kelleher to be selected as presidential candidateBilly Kelleher vows to back Jim Gavin after losing secret ballot\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Taoiseach Micheal Martin (centre left) with former Dublin Gaelic football manager Jim Gavin, who has been announced as the Fianna Fail presidential candidate, at Leinster House in Dublin. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IRISH Pre (18).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)\">Taoiseach Micheal Martin (centre left) with former Dublin Gaelic football manager Jim Gavin, who has been announced as the Fianna Fail presidential candidate, at Leinster House in Dublin. 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 has been delivered a shot across the bow from Fianna F\u00e1il backbenchers after the vote on the party\u2019s presidential nomination was tighter than expected.<\/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)\">Former Dublin football manager Jim Gavin was selected to be the candidate, with the backing of a majority of TDs, senators and MEPs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has been delivered a shot across the bow from Fianna F\u00e1il backbenchersFormer Dublin football manager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,4771,6,19,17,19487,11,12,15,16,5,59,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-54586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-fianna-fail","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-jim-gavin","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-presidential-election","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54586","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=54586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}