{"id":68891,"date":"2025-09-17T04:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/68891\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T04:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:06:16","slug":"race-to-the-aras-second-council-votes-to-nominate-gareth-sheridan-for-presidential-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/68891\/","title":{"rendered":"Race to the \u00c1ras: Second council votes to nominate Gareth Sheridan for presidential run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Live\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<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 Gavin<br \/>\n\tRoscommon, Longford, Cork City, Galway City and Dublin City councils yesterday opted not to nominate anyone<\/p>\n<p>\tPresidential hopefuls pull on the wellies for campaigning at the Ploughing Championships <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gareth Sheridan at Kerry County Council on Monday. Photo: Mark O'Sullivan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1f7e15c5-dd42-4d27-a08d-e982c8a00824.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 at Kerry County Council on Monday. Photo: Mark O&#8217;Sullivan<\/p>\n<p>Irish Independent Newsdesk<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at 15:50<\/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 presidential race has narrowed, with a number of local authorities deciding not to nominate any potential Independent candidates\u2026 and presidential candidates are pulling on their wellies, and hopefully leaving the white trousers at home, for a day at the Ploughing. <\/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)\">Follow the latest developments in our live blog:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Live\u00a0|\u00a0 Follow the latest developments in the presidential race on our Irish Independent live blogThree candidates have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,59,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-68891","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-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\/68891","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=68891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}