{"id":6494,"date":"2025-08-18T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/6494\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:04:09","slug":"presidential-election-ireland-2025-sean-kelly-digs-in-on-aras-run-as-fine-gael-chiefs-back-heather-humphreys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/6494\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential election Ireland 2025: Se\u00e1n Kelly digs in on \u00c1ras run as Fine Gael chiefs back Heather Humphreys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former social protection minister Heather Humphreys. Photo: Justin Farrell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/5c1c44a5-9045-4132-931d-028115f7f032.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)\">Former social protection minister Heather Humphreys. Photo: Justin Farrell<\/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)\">Fine Gael MEP Se\u00e1n Kelly is defying the hopes of the party hierarchy for a single presidential candidate after refusing to clear the way for Heather Humphreys by ruling out a run for the \u00c1ras.<\/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)\">Fine Gael could now face an internal battle to choose a candidate after the former GAA president told the Irish Independent last night he is reconsidering \u201cwith enthusiasm\u201d whether to put his name forward and is \u201cgreatly encouraged\u201d by the support he is getting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 Former social protection minister Heather Humphreys. Photo: Justin Farrell Fine Gael MEP Se\u00e1n Kelly is defying the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,4771,553,5286,6,555,19,17,11,12,15,16,556,6644,5283,5765,5,59,1181,559,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-6494","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-fine-gael","15":"tag-gaa","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-heather-humphreys","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-latest-news","21":"tag-latestnews","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-mairead-mcguinness","25":"tag-mary-regan","26":"tag-michael-healy-rae","27":"tag-micheal-martin","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-presidential-election","30":"tag-rte","31":"tag-sean-kelly","32":"tag-top-stories","33":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494","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=6494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}