{"id":68588,"date":"2025-09-17T00:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T00:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/68588\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T00:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T00:12:11","slug":"aras-watch-gareth-sheridan-within-touching-distance-sinn-feins-mystic-meg-strategy-and-dustin-the-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/68588\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1ras watch: Gareth Sheridan within touching distance, Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s \u2018Mystic Meg\u2019 strategy and Dustin the Turkey"},"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\">Daily dispatch from the presidential campaign trail\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gareth Sheridan has secured Tipperary County Council's nomination for the presidential election\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/52a66a64-eff8-40fb-8fca-4d318870057f.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)\">Gareth Sheridan has secured Tipperary County Council&#8217;s nomination for the presidential election<\/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 always looked like an outside chance that any of the Independent candidates would get the nod from county councils. But Gareth Sheridan has secured the backing of two local authorities, so he\u2019s halfway there.<\/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)\">The US-based businessman \u2013 who wants to represent the voice of younger Irish citizens \u2013 got ahead of the pack by diligently meeting councillors around the country since before the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daily dispatch from the presidential campaign trail Gareth Sheridan has secured Tipperary County Council&#8217;s nomination for the presidential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39988,9,10,18,13,14,4771,553,6,555,19,17,19487,11,12,15,16,16594,5765,5,44,47,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-68588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-national-ploughing-championships","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-fianna-fail","15":"tag-fine-gael","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-heather-humphreys","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-jim-gavin","21":"tag-latest-news","22":"tag-latestnews","23":"tag-main-news","24":"tag-mainnews","25":"tag-mary-lou-mcdonald","26":"tag-micheal-martin","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-simon-harris","29":"tag-sinn-fein","30":"tag-top-stories","31":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68588","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=68588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}