{"id":366605,"date":"2025-08-23T06:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T06:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366605\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T06:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T06:55:13","slug":"heather-humphreys-who-is-the-ulster-protestant-who-could-be-irish-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366605\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Humphreys: Who is the Ulster Protestant who could be Irish president?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heather Humphreys has thrown her hat in the ring for the \u00c1ras race. Photo: Justin Farrell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fc5d9fb5-8ea5-4dd2-84ca-b00184668f6c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Heather Humphreys has thrown her hat in the ring for the \u00c1ras race. Photo: Justin Farrell<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As a largely ceremonial role, the Irish presidency is less about policy than it is about having a story &#8211; and Aras hopeful Heather Humphreys certainly has one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Born in 1963 in the Co Monaghan village of Drum, one of the few Protestant-majority settlements in the Republic of Ireland, Humphreys\u2019 background is unique when it comes to Irish politicians &#8211; and it\u2019s something that may endear her to northern unionists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heather Humphreys has thrown her hat in the ring for the \u00c1ras race. Photo: Justin Farrell As a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[6571,29760,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-366605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-andrew-madden","9":"tag-heather-humphreys","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115076774527391800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}