{"id":1175,"date":"2025-09-05T16:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/1175\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:14:07","slug":"joanna-donnelly-withdraws-from-presidential-election-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/1175\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Donnelly withdraws from Presidential Election race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former weather presenter and meteorologist Joanna Donnelly has withdrawn from the Presidential Election race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While I still believe that I have the qualities that would make me a good Uachtar\u00e1n na h\u00c9ireann, I was naive to think I could meet the challenges of the campaign,&#8221; she said, in a post on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Therefore, at this stage, I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s best to withdraw my request for nominations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Donnelly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2025\/0422\/1508824-joanna-donnelly-signs-off-from-rte-weather\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who left Met \u00c9ireann unexpectedly in April<\/a>, confirmed on Tuesday that she was seeking a nomination.<\/p>\n<p>She said she had not been approached by any political party to contest the election.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ms Donnelly said that since then she has been speaking with people with &#8220;vastly more experience in this type of campaign&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve come to see just how wholly unprepared I am,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>She thanked the public for their comments of &#8220;support and encouragement&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former weather presenter and meteorologist Joanna Donnelly has withdrawn from the Presidential Election race. &#8220;While I still believe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","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=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}