{"id":103128,"date":"2025-10-25T09:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/103128\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:20:08","slug":"presidential-election-ireland-latest-you-have-no-control-over-who-you-meet-catherine-connolly-responds-after-pictures-emerge-of-her-with-man-linked-to-war-crimes-in-syria-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/103128\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Election Ireland latest: \u2018You have no control over who you meet&#8217; \u2013 Catherine Connolly responds after pictures emerge of her with man linked to war crimes in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We have sought to building a united Left front, a common left platform&#8217; &#8211; Ivana Bacik<\/p>\n<p>Ivana Bacik speaking on Morning Ireland on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 said this is not an election on any one party on the left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tallied one box myself in my own constituency. I tallied 68pc of the votes for Catherine number one, spoiled votes with the next proportionally away behind a 25 out of 65,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have sought to building a united Left front, a common left platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m still very keen to continue doing that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Indeed, back in January, I first reached out to the leaders of the Social Democrats and the Green Party seeking to build that common left front behind a presidential campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Catherine does represent that alternative vision for Ireland in a new kind of politics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will build on the energy in the movement that Catherine has generated.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Sarah O&#8217;Mahony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;We have sought to building a united Left front, a common left platform&#8217; &#8211; Ivana Bacik Ivana Bacik&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3656,895,3775,2044,61,60,2043,43,978,3415],"class_list":["post-103128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-fianna-fail","tag-fine-gael","tag-heather-humphreys","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jim-gavin","tag-news","tag-presidential-election","tag-sinn-fein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}