{"id":500580,"date":"2025-10-15T04:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T04:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/500580\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T04:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T04:37:14","slug":"irish-presidential-election-from-brexit-to-gaza-where-does-committed-european-catherine-connolly-stand-on-various-eu-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/500580\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish presidential election: From Brexit to Gaza, where does \u2018committed European\u2019 Catherine Connolly stand on various EU issues?"},"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\">From Lisbon Treaty to Gaza, presidential candidate holds a more nuanced view of bloc\u2019s intentions\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760503034_314_video.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)\">Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly, who has been the underdog \u2018all her life\u2019, on her presidential vision  <\/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)\">Catherine Connolly has insisted she is \u201ca committed European\u201d and while she has opposed many aspects of EU politics, she argues \u201cwe have to allow questions to be put and debated\u201d.<\/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 the Heather Humphreys\u2019 campaign has used some of Connolly\u2019s positions on the EU to try to sow doubt about what her presidency would mean for Ireland\u2019s relationships with its allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Lisbon Treaty to Gaza, presidential candidate holds a more nuanced view of bloc\u2019s intentions Presidential candidate Catherine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[6505,802,748,123360,2000,299,5187,1699,60970,2194,4884,835,29760,837,528,164293,134503,1814,48471,332,16,657,15,1220,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-500580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-catherine-connolly","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-fine-gael","17":"tag-gaza","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-hamas","20":"tag-heather-humphreys","21":"tag-israel","22":"tag-labour-party","23":"tag-mary-regan","24":"tag-mick-wallace","25":"tag-palestine","26":"tag-presidential-election","27":"tag-russia","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-ukraine","30":"tag-united-kingdom","31":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","32":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115376334416704928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500580","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=500580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}