{"id":106136,"date":"2025-10-27T05:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T05:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/106136\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T05:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T05:48:10","slug":"kevin-cunningham-how-irelands-political-landscape-is-changing-as-both-the-left-and-right-had-their-say-in-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/106136\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Cunningham: How Ireland\u2019s political landscape is changing \u2013 as both the left and right had their say in presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">TV debates had major impact on outcome of election, analysis shows\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Miche\u00e1l Martin at Dublin Castle on Saturday. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IRISH Pr (295).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Miche\u00e1l Martin at Dublin Castle on Saturday. Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Several senior politicians have said a response is needed to the 213,738 spoilt votes in the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It represents 13pc of all votes cast on Friday, and a more than tenfold \u00adincrease on the number of spoilt votes in the last presidential election, when there were 18,438 invalid ballots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV debates had major impact on outcome of election, analysis shows Miche\u00e1l Martin at Dublin Castle on Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[894,2046,3656,1714,895,2044,61,60,2043,37801,2050,977,43,978,3415],"class_list":["post-106136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-bertie-ahern","tag-bob-geldof","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-conor-mcgregor","tag-fianna-fail","tag-heather-humphreys","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jim-gavin","tag-mairead-mcguinness","tag-michael-flatley","tag-michael-d-higgins","tag-news","tag-presidential-election","tag-sinn-fein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106136","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=106136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}