{"id":211146,"date":"2025-12-26T02:29:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T02:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211146\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T02:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T02:29:19","slug":"the-top-stories-irish-independent-readers-were-reading-each-month-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211146\/","title":{"rendered":"The top stories &#8216;Irish Independent&#8217; readers were reading each month in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Storms, scandals, tariffs and taoisigh \u2013 this year had it all\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Miche\u00e1l Martin and Fianna F\u00e1il presidential candidate Jim Gavin on the campaign trail in September. Photo: Damien Eagers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ef9f9b10-1a64-46a4-b6be-663115a498ce.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)\">Miche\u00e1l Martin and Fianna F\u00e1il presidential candidate Jim Gavin on the campaign trail in September. Photo: Damien Eagers<\/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)\">From political scandals and court sagas to people\u2019s stories of achievement, resilience and \u2013 unfortunately \u2013 tragedy, here is what our Irish Independent readers were reading this year. <\/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)\">2025 kicked off with a series of storms, most notably Storm \u00c9owyn. It was the worst storm to hit Ireland since Hurricane Debbie in 1961. A man in Donegal died after a tree fell on his car, and parts of the country remained without power for weeks on end. A gust of 183kmh was recorded at Mace Head Galway, knocking an 80-year-old record aside. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Storms, scandals, tariffs and taoisigh \u2013 this year had it all Miche\u00e1l Martin and Fianna F\u00e1il presidential candidate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45,109954,42852,969,43693,93,895,807,3662,61,60,1421,2043,66155,14611,3581,109955,978,85836,54265,812,767],"class_list":{"0":"post-211146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-denise-calnan","10":"tag-dj-carey","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-enoch-burke","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-fianna-fail","15":"tag-housing","16":"tag-housing-crisis","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill","20":"tag-jim-gavin","21":"tag-jp-mcmanus","22":"tag-kilkenny-gaa","23":"tag-leo-varadkar","24":"tag-molly-martens","25":"tag-presidential-election","26":"tag-rosanna-davison","27":"tag-rte-2fm","28":"tag-usa","29":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211146","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=211146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}