{"id":25232,"date":"2025-09-16T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/25232\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:20:08","slug":"offaly-an-important-part-of-irelands-economy-jim-gavin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/25232\/","title":{"rendered":"Offaly an &#8216;Important Part Of Ireland&#8217;s Economy&#8217;- Jim Gavin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Tuesday, 16 September 2025 16:35\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/68c93a662de24.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The freshly appointed Fianna Fail presidential candidate made an appearance at the Ploughing.\n        <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Fianna Fail&#8217;s presidential candidate is describing Offaly as a central part of Ireland&#8217;s economy, and an important part of Ireland&#8217;s heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Gavin is in Screggan for this year&#8217;s National Ploughing Championship where organisers are expecting a bumper crowd of 300 thousand people this week.<\/p>\n<p>The newly minted member of the party will be going up against Fine Gael&#8217;s Heather Humphreys and Independent candidate Catherine Connolly.<\/p>\n<p>While a host of other independent reps are tilting at a nomination in county councils across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gavin says he was especially happy to meet autism awareness campaigner Cara Dermody today:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 16 September 2025 16:35 The freshly appointed Fianna Fail presidential candidate made an appearance at the Ploughing.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-25232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","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-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25232","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=25232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}