{"id":98448,"date":"2025-10-02T05:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T05:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98448\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T05:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T05:33:09","slug":"fianna-fail-aras-candidate-jim-gavin-forced-to-remove-campaign-video-after-intervention-by-defence-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98448\/","title":{"rendered":"Fianna F\u00e1il \u00c1ras candidate Jim Gavin forced to remove campaign video after intervention by Defence Forces"},"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\">Military quick to confirm its neutrality in face of presidential race PR move\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fianna F\u00e1il election candidate Jim Gavin (left) also used this image of him with his arm around Defence Forces chief of staff Rossa Mulcahy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/26ee4197_ad69_4e16_bb96_a.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)\">Fianna F\u00e1il election candidate Jim Gavin (left) also used this image of him with his arm around Defence Forces chief of staff Rossa Mulcahy<\/p>\n<p>Mary Regan and Maeve McTaggart<\/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 presidential candidate Jim Gavin was forced to remove a campaign video showing uniformed army personnel clapping as he participated in a road run, after an intervention by the Irish Defences Forces.<\/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 military issued a statement last night to assert that it is non-party political, after both the video of uniformed members clapping, as well as a photo of Mr Gavin with his arm around its chief of staff, were removed from social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Military quick to confirm its neutrality in face of presidential race PR move Fianna F\u00e1il election candidate Jim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,26,18,13,14,4771,6,19,17,19487,11,12,31982,15,16,6644,5765,5,59,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-98448","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-dublin-airport","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-jim-gavin","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-maeve-mctaggart","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-mary-regan","25":"tag-micheal-martin","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-presidential-election","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\/98448","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=98448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}