{"id":73671,"date":"2025-09-19T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/73671\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:06:11","slug":"mary-regan-what-now-for-eoin-hayes-the-man-who-gave-up-a-million-euro-for-a-life-of-political-obscurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/73671\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Regan: What now for Eoin Hayes, the man who gave up a million euro for a life of political obscurity?"},"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\">Fianna F\u00e1il\u2019s Cathal Crowe says \u2018someone had it in\u2019 for Social Democrats TD\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Social Democrats TD Eoin Hayes at Leinster House earlier this year. Photo: Sam Boal\/Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Eoin Hayes File013.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)\">Social Democrats TD Eoin Hayes at Leinster House earlier this year. Photo: Sam Boal\/Collins<\/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)\">Eoin Hayes cut a forlorn political figure, sitting on the back benches of the D\u00e1il chamber. No longer in the no man\u2019s land of the far-back corner, between Danny Healy-Rae and the wall, he is now sitting behind the rest of the Social Democrats since being readmitted to the party.<\/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)\">But there was plenty of distance and little interaction with his party colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fianna F\u00e1il\u2019s Cathal Crowe says \u2018someone had it in\u2019 for Social Democrats TD Social Democrats TD Eoin Hayes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4750,9,10,18,13,14,4771,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,6644,5,18578,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-73671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-fianna-fail","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-mary-regan","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-social-democrats","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73671","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=73671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}