{"id":110234,"date":"2025-10-29T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/110234\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:43:09","slug":"fg-cllr-its-time-to-financially-punish-vote-spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/110234\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Cllr: It&#8217;s time to financially punish vote spoilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feast your eyes, and indeed your other senses, on the following quote (courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leinsterexpress.ie\/news\/elections\/1927989\/laois-landslide-vote-as-catherine-connolly-set-to-become-president-of-ireland.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Leinster Express<\/a>) from Fine Gael Councillor on Laois County Council, John King:<\/p>\n<p>Fine Gael Cllr John King said \u201cI am not shocked but I thought Heather would have done much better.\u201d <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get unlimited access to Gript<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feast your eyes, and indeed your other senses, on the following quote (courtesy of The Leinster Express) from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3775,61,60,66966,8285,43,978],"class_list":["post-110234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fine-gael","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-king","tag-laois","tag-news","tag-presidential-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110234","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=110234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}