{"id":67082,"date":"2025-09-16T06:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/67082\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T06:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:59:09","slug":"irish-presidential-race-numbers-up-for-mathematician-lawyer-and-professor-as-hopes-are-thwarted-by-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/67082\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish presidential race: Number\u2019s up for mathematician, lawyer and professor as hopes are thwarted by council"},"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\">Delays and tech issues mar one Independent hopeful\u2019s chances\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dolores Cahill, an Independent hopeful for a presidential nomination. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IRISH Pres (8).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)\">Dolores Cahill, an Independent hopeful for a presidential nomination. 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)\">It had been a long day, and it felt like spirits had begun to flag in Roscommon council chamber as councillors heard from a myriad of presidential hopefuls.<\/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)\">There was a mathematician, two solicitors, an animal rights activist, a peace activist, an artist, an engineer, an entrepreneur, a bus driver, an anti-abortionist and an angry man in a dark room on his laptop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delays and tech issues mar one Independent hopeful\u2019s chances Dolores Cahill, an Independent hopeful for a presidential nomination.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,46967,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,59,7,8,15913],"class_list":{"0":"post-67082","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-eavan-murray","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-presidential-election","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories","25":"tag-ucd"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67082","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=67082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}