{"id":142638,"date":"2025-11-16T09:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T09:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142638\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T09:35:08","slug":"irish-labour-leader-calls-for-time-line-on-border-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142638\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish labour leader calls for time line on border poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The leader of the Republic of Ireland&#8217;s Labour Party has called for the UK and Irish governments to confirm a timeline for a border poll on Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ivana Bacik made the call for a &#8220;unity referendum&#8221; in her leader&#8217;s speech at the party&#8217;s annual conference on Saturday, Irish broadcaster RT\u00c9 reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Bacik said the matter should not be rushed, but that she believes there is a need to give a deadline for when it would take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;As leader of a Republican party, I am calling now on the Irish and British governments to set a clear timeline for the holding of a unity referendum,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The leader of the Republic of Ireland&#8217;s Labour Party has called for the UK and Irish governments to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-142638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142638","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=142638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}