{"id":103825,"date":"2025-10-25T18:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/103825\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T18:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:57:09","slug":"catherine-connolly-confirmed-as-irelands-president-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/103825\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Connolly confirmed as Ireland\u2019s President-elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c103.ie\/news\/c103-news-and-sport\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All C103 News &amp; Sport<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68fd1959e4c3e.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Pic: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            She will become the tenth President of Ireland.\n        <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether we can shape a new Republic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The words of President elect Catherine Connolly in her victory speech in Dublin Castle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Connolly won a total of 914,143 votes, which was 63.4% of first preferences.<\/p>\n<p>Heather Humphreys won 424,987 29.5% first preferences and Jim Gavin won 103,568 7.2%.<\/p>\n<p>The number of spoiled or invalid votes was 213,738.<\/p>\n<p>The total valid poll was 1,442,698 and the turnout was 45.8%.<\/p>\n<p>In Cork East, just over 65% of voters gave her their first preference, with Heather Humphreys on 28%, and Jim Gavin taking just under seven percent.<\/p>\n<p>In Cork North West, Connolly received 56.6%, Humphreys just under 35%, and Gavin almost nine percent.<br \/>And in Cork South West, Connolly polled just under 60%, Humphreys 33%, and Gavin 7%.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, at the Nemo Rangers count centre \u2014 covering Cork South Central and Cork North Central \u2014 turnout was around 46%, and Connolly again dominated with nearly two-thirds of first preferences.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=73d8e170-a3ae-463d-83cc-e709e59ffa9c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68da98f341122.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All C103 News &amp; Sport Pic: Getty She will become the tenth President of Ireland. \u201cTogether we can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44153,44155,44154,44156,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-103825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-c103","tag-c103-homepage","tag-cork-103","tag-cork-radio-station","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103825","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=103825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}