{"id":9436,"date":"2025-04-11T00:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T00:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/9436\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T00:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T00:42:10","slug":"shared-island-initiative-watched-by-orange-supremo-and-ian-paisley-taoiseach-launches-new-element-of-his-key-ni-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/9436\/","title":{"rendered":"Shared Island Initiative: Watched by Orange supremo and Ian Paisley, Taoiseach launches new element of his key NI policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\">Orange Grand Secretary says he\u2019s happy attending Shared Island Initiative events because he doesn&#8217;t believe there&#8217;s any united Ireland &#8220;agenda&#8221; behind them\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin TD speaking at the 4th Shared Island Forum in Dublin Castle. Photo: Sam Boal\/Collins Photos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1b4b64e5-b9ab-40aa-8dbf-c901584ff9ab.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)\">Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin TD speaking at the 4th Shared Island Forum in Dublin Castle. Photo: Sam Boal\/Collins Photos<\/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 the Orange Order\u2019s most influential figure and former DUP MP Ian Paisley watched on, the Taoiseach on Thursday launched a new segment of his lavishly-funded centrepiece policy on Northern Ireland.<\/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)\">Named after a phrase used by former SDLP deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon, Miche\u00e1l Martin said the new \u201cshared home place\u201d project would help to tell the stories of the island\u2019s diverse peoples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange Grand Secretary says he\u2019s happy attending Shared Island Initiative events because he doesn&#8217;t believe there&#8217;s any united&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[6416,6412,6415,924,6414,6411,681,1144,6413,6410,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-9436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-alliance-party","9":"tag-casement-park","10":"tag-claire-hanna","11":"tag-democratic-unionist-party","12":"tag-ian-paisley","13":"tag-ireland-cricket-team-men","14":"tag-micheal-martin","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-orange-order","17":"tag-sam-mcbride","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114316557989571658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9436","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=9436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}