{"id":527556,"date":"2025-10-25T19:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/527556\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T19:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:04:19","slug":"catherine-connolly-northern-ireland-leaders-react-to-election-of-new-irish-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/527556\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Connolly: Northern Ireland leaders react to election of new Irish President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">First Minister Michelle O\u2019Neill described Ms Connolly as a \u201cpassionate voice\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Independent candidate Catherine Connolly arriving at Dublin Castle for the count at Dublin Caste in Ireland's presidential election to replace Michael D Higgins, who has served the maximum two seven-year terms. Picture date: Saturday October 25, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Niall Carson\/PA Wire \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ab83d9fd-0038-41d7-b464-1b110fd93904.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)\">Independent candidate Catherine Connolly arriving at Dublin Castle for the count at Dublin Caste in Ireland&#8217;s presidential election to replace Michael D Higgins, who has served the maximum two seven-year terms. Picture date: Saturday October 25, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Niall Carson\/PA Wire <\/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)\">Newly-elected Irish President Catherine Connolly will be a \u201cpassionate voice for every community across Ireland\u201d, Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O\u2019Neill has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 First Minister Michelle O\u2019Neill described Ms Connolly as a \u201cpassionate voice\u201d Independent candidate Catherine Connolly arriving at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1300,148599,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-527556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-liam-tunney","9":"tag-michael-d-higgins","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115436368023300039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527556","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=527556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}