{"id":76528,"date":"2025-09-21T06:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/76528\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T06:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:17:10","slug":"its-hardly-a-game-changer-relief-in-government-as-sinn-fein-opts-to-back-catherine-connolly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/76528\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s hardly a game changer\u2019 \u2013 Relief in Government as Sinn F\u00e9in opts to back Catherine Connolly"},"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\">Gareth Sheridan accuses Fianna F\u00e1il of blocking his \u00c1ras bid\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michelle O\u2019Neill and Mary Lou McDonald at the Sinn Fein presidential candidate press conference. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/73b147c5-59fd-423d-9d46-83a87b4cc520.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)\">Michelle O\u2019Neill and Mary Lou McDonald at the Sinn Fein presidential candidate press conference. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p>Tabitha Monahan and Kevin Doyle<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/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)\">Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael are breathing a sigh of relief after Sinn F\u00e9in announced yesterday that it was backing Catherine Connolly, rather than running its own candidate.<\/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)\">Sinn F\u00e9in president Mary Lou McDonald had hyped up yesterday\u2019s announcement as a \u201cgame changer\u201d for the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gareth Sheridan accuses Fianna F\u00e1il of blocking his \u00c1ras bid Michelle O\u2019Neill and Mary Lou McDonald at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,1921,18,13,14,4771,553,25,6,19,17,19487,11,12,15,16,16594,5,47,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-76528","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-catherine-connolly","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-fianna-fail","15":"tag-fine-gael","16":"tag-gareth-sheridan","17":"tag-headlines","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-news","27":"tag-sinn-fein","28":"tag-top-stories","29":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76528","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=76528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}