{"id":266042,"date":"2026-01-27T06:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266042\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:44:09","slug":"labour-select-helen-ogbu-for-galway-west-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266042\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour select Helen Ogbu for Galway West by-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour Party members in Galway West have selected Councillor Helen Ogbu to contest the forthcoming by-election in the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>She previously contested the 2024 General Election, having been first elected to Galway City Council earlier that year.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Ogbu was the sole candidate seeking the Labour nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Labour leader Ivana Bacik said the by-election was a chance to send a message to the Government that &#8220;real change is needed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The by-election, to fill the seat vacated by Catherine Connolly after she became President, is expected to take place in April or May.<\/p>\n<p>So far, a number of candidates have declared, including Noel Thomas, of Independent Ireland; Niall Murphy (Green Party) and independents Thomas Welby and Sheila Garrity.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions are continuing among members of Fianna F\u00e1il, Sinn F\u00e9in and Fine Gael about their candidate selection.<\/p>\n<p>A number of other parties and individuals are also expected to contest the poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour Party members in Galway West have selected Councillor Helen Ogbu to contest the forthcoming by-election in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-266042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266042","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=266042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}