{"id":123019,"date":"2025-11-05T11:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/123019\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:01:08","slug":"former-cathaoirleach-of-kerry-county-council-jim-finucane-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/123019\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council Jim Finucane has passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council and Fine Gael councillor Jim Finucane has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>He was aged 68 and will be remembered for his long commitment to politics and the work he did for the people of the county.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Finucane was involved in politics since he was 18-years-old and was an elected politician for almost 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>He served as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/tralee-councillor-jim-finucane-elected-as-new-county-mayor-336891\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cathaoirleach of the council<\/a> in 2023 and was also elected as Mayor of Tralee.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Finucane also previously held a seat on Tralee Urban District Council from 1985 to 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Just last month, Jim Finucane was appointed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/jim-finucane-appointed-honorary-consul-of-ukraine-for-the-south-west-456829\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">honorary consul of Ukraine<\/a> for the south west region.<\/p>\n<p>When he announced his retirement from political life in 2023, he spoke about what politics meant for him:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council and Fine Gael councillor Jim Finucane has passed away. He was aged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,73063,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-123019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-jim-finucane","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123019","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=123019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}