{"id":72251,"date":"2025-09-18T22:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/72251\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T22:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:19:11","slug":"aras-watch-disillusionment-despair-and-exhaustion-among-hopefuls-vying-for-elusive-council-nominations-as-harris-diktat-comes-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/72251\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1ras Watch: Disillusionment, despair and exhaustion among hopefuls vying for elusive council nominations as Harris diktat comes under fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u00c1ras an Uachtar\u00e1in. The presidential election takes place on October 24.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/009d6965-6dc9-4b70-8b35-4db37721f61f.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)\">\u00c1ras an Uachtar\u00e1in. The presidential election takes place on October 24.<\/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 is growing disillusionment, exhaustion and even despair among Presidential hopefuls vying for county council nominations.<\/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)\">Since Monday County councils have hosted candidates both in person and online to make five or ten minute pitches as to their worthiness to be nominated for the role of President of Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00c1ras an Uachtar\u00e1in. The presidential election takes place on October 24. There is growing disillusionment, exhaustion and even&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,46967,18,13,14,553,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5765,5,59,44,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-72251","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-eavan-murray","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-fine-gael","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-micheal-martin","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-presidential-election","25":"tag-simon-harris","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72251","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=72251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}