{"id":58866,"date":"2025-09-12T05:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/58866\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T05:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:45:09","slug":"taoiseach-accuses-sinn-fein-of-nasty-comments-as-he-defends-jim-gavin-remarks-on-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/58866\/","title":{"rendered":"Taoiseach accuses Sinn F\u00e9in of \u2018nasty\u2019 comments as he defends Jim Gavin remarks on Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Taoiseach Micheal Martin with former Dublin Gaelic football manager Jim Gavin (Niall Carson\/PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2.81544442.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 with former Dublin Gaelic football manager Jim Gavin (Niall Carson\/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 defended remarks by presidential hopeful Jim Gavin on Israel\u2019s war in Gaza.<\/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)\">In an interview with Virgin Media News this week, Mr Gavin said: \u201cIt\u2019s unconscionable that the bombing is still taking place when I believe that the military objectives have probably been reached for that military campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taoiseach Micheal Martin with former Dublin Gaelic football manager Jim Gavin (Niall Carson\/PA) Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has defended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,68,6,71,19487,11,12,15,16,5765,5,59,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-58866","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-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-gaza","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-jim-gavin","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-micheal-martin","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-presidential-election","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\/58866","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=58866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}