{"id":194248,"date":"2025-12-16T06:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194248\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T06:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:48:16","slug":"midlands-campaign-urges-church-to-explain-mcgregor-wedding-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194248\/","title":{"rendered":"Midlands Campaign Urges Church To Explain McGregor Wedding Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Monday, 15 December 2025 14:37\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/69401cc488f55.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            McGregor was found liable in a civil court for sexual violence.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Zero Tolerance Midlands Campaign is calling on the Catholic Church to explain its decision to allow Conor McGregor to marry in a prestigious church building.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Bishop of Meath Tom Deenihan the Mullingar group says the decision caused distress to victims and survivors of gender-based violence.<\/p>\n<p>McGregor was found liable in a civil court for sexual violence and has not publicly apologised or shown remorse.<\/p>\n<p>They believe granting access to a sacred space is inconsistent with the Church\u2019s stated commitments to justice, repentance, and protecting the vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Hazel Behan, Co Founder of Eist says silence risks further lack of trust in the churches moral leadership:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 15 December 2025 14:37 McGregor was found liable in a civil court for sexual violence. The Zero&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,112,59],"class_list":["post-194248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-sports","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194248","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=194248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}