{"id":66881,"date":"2025-09-16T04:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/66881\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T04:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:35:12","slug":"race-to-the-aras-narrows-as-a-number-of-councils-decide-against-nominating-presidential-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/66881\/","title":{"rendered":"Race to the \u00c1ras narrows as a number of councils decide against nominating presidential candidates"},"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\">Follow the latest developments in the presidential race on our Irish Independent live blogThree candidates have been nominated by parties via the Oireachtas route \u2013 Catherine Connolly, Heather Humphreys and Jim GavinSo far no Independent candidate has secured the backing of 20 TDs or senators needed to get a nomination<br \/>\n\tRoscommon, Longford, Cork City, Galway City and Dublin City councils have opted not to nominate anyone<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Presidential hopeful Gareth Sheridan arrives before addressing Kerry County Council. Photo: Don MacMonagle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/44b61d84-f61b-4653-b519-4771e3165817.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)\">Presidential hopeful Gareth Sheridan arrives before addressing Kerry County Council. Photo: Don MacMonagle<\/p>\n<p>Irish Independent Newsdesk<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at 16:16<\/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)\">Independent candidates are continuing their pitches to local councillors throughout today in a bid to secure the backing of four councils needed to get their name on the ballot.<\/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)\">MMA fighter Conor McGregor on Monday morning pulled out of the race, having intended to go via the council route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow the latest developments in the presidential race on our Irish Independent live blogThree candidates have been nominated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,59,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-66881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-presidential-election","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66881","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=66881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}