{"id":161804,"date":"2025-11-27T03:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/161804\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T03:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:39:12","slug":"mairead-mcguinness-makes-first-public-appearance-since-withdrawing-from-aras-race-on-health-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/161804\/","title":{"rendered":"Mairead McGuinness makes first public appearance since withdrawing from \u00c1ras race on health grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mairead McGuinness and Barry Ward. Photo: Barry Ward\/Instagram.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/316cca1a-2269-469b-9f37-a9f1adc97835.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)\">Mairead McGuinness and Barry Ward. Photo: Barry Ward\/Instagram.<\/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)\">Fine Gael presidential hopeful Mairead McGuinness appeared at an event to honour her former party leader Enda Kenny this week after pulling out of the race to the \u00c1ras on health grounds during the summer.<\/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)\">Ms McGuinness, who withdrew from the presidential race in August, was among guests at the event in Trinity College Dublin on Tuesday night where the former taoiseach was presented with the inaugural European Laureate Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mairead McGuinness and Barry Ward. Photo: Barry Ward\/Instagram. Fine Gael presidential hopeful Mairead McGuinness appeared at an event&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-161804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161804","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=161804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}