{"id":228056,"date":"2026-01-05T06:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/228056\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T06:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:22:09","slug":"fionnan-sheahan-any-chance-micheal-martin-will-tell-our-visiting-european-pals-about-a-united-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/228056\/","title":{"rendered":"Fionn\u00e1n Sheahan: Any chance Miche\u00e1l Martin will tell our visiting European\u00a0pals about\u00a0a united Ireland?"},"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\">Our first EU presidency since Brexit apparently puts us \u2018on the global stage\u2019 \u2013  it\u2019s time to broach the subject of our future\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin faces a busy year hosting EU leaders as part of Ireland's EU council presidency. Photo: Brian Lawless\/PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0f08d1f0-26fd-49f2-98c7-15f55c4b561a.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)\">Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin faces a busy year hosting EU leaders as part of Ireland&#8217;s EU council presidency. Photo: Brian Lawless\/PA<\/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)\">Someone needs to be break it to the Taoiseach. And be gentle. Despite his best intentions, the unionists up north really just aren\u2019t ever going to get on board with this united Ireland idea.<\/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)\">He can have all the confidence building, strengthening institutions and Shared Island Initiative funding he wants, but they\u2019re just not buying into it. Sorry, Miche\u00e1l. You tried and you failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our first EU presidency since Brexit apparently puts us \u2018on the global stage\u2019 \u2013 it\u2019s time to broach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[894,76655,57092,6231,7196,2244,895,3774,292,61,4819,60,111978,1843,43,2443],"class_list":["post-228056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-bertie-ahern","tag-border-poll","tag-brexit","tag-charles-haughey","tag-eamon-de-valera","tag-eu","tag-fianna-fail","tag-fionnan-sheahan","tag-germany","tag-ie","tag-ira","tag-ireland","tag-john-bruton","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-northern-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228056","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=228056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}