{"id":642098,"date":"2026-08-17T16:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/642098\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:56:11","slug":"td-slams-government-over-garda-intercultural-training-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/642098\/","title":{"rendered":"TD slams government over Garda intercultural training hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An Independent TD has accused the government of \u201cideological contradictions\u201d for condemning the Taliban while maintaining \u201ccomplete radio silence\u201d over Garda intercultural training which recommends adhering to patriarchal social practices at home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement to Gript, Offaly TD Carol Nolan hit out at the government\u2019s focus on international issues, claiming ministers have developed an obsessiveness that \u201cborders on pathological narcissism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Independent TD has accused the government of \u201cideological contradictions\u201d for condemning the Taliban while maintaining \u201ccomplete radio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[4391,79,18,19,17,5,4738],"class_list":["post-642098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ben-scallan","tag-business","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-report"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642098","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=642098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}