{"id":105812,"date":"2025-10-27T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/105812\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T01:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:00:10","slug":"catherine-connolly-rises-from-respected-fringe-figure-to-irelands-first-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/105812\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Connolly rises from respected fringe figure to Ireland&#8217;s first citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Catherine Connolly thoroughly deserves her victory in being <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/politics\/arid-41730885.html\">elected the 10th president of Ireland<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/politics\/arid-41730042.html\">margin of her victory<\/a> was historic. Her campaign was professional and innovative, but that was decisive only because she was a really good candidate. And those who were up against her\u00a0\u2014 Heather Humphreys and, formerly, Jim Gavin\u00a0\u2014 simply were not.<\/p>\n<p>This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IE Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4633150_1_org_IE_logo_modals.png\" width=\"340\" height=\"41\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\tUnlimited access. Half the price.<\/p>\n<p>Annual \u20ac130\u20ac65<\/p>\n<p class=\"best-value\">Best value<\/p>\n<p>Monthly \u20ac12\u20ac6 \/ month<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Benefits image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4750392_1_org_Save_50_offer.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catherine Connolly thoroughly deserves her victory in being elected the 10th president of Ireland.\u00a0 The margin of her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3656,61,60,43,978],"class_list":["post-105812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-presidential-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105812","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=105812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}