{"id":284972,"date":"2026-02-07T02:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/284972\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T02:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:51:14","slug":"dups-campbell-complains-that-president-connolly-did-not-once-refer-to-londonderry-on-northern-ireland-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/284972\/","title":{"rendered":"DUP\u2019s Campbell complains that President Connolly did not once refer to \u2018Londonderry\u2019 on Northern Ireland visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President Catherine Connolly shakes hands with Democratic Unionist Party MP for East Londonderry Gregory Campbell during a civic reception at the Guildhall, Derry, on day two of her visit to Northern Ireland. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IRISH Pre (54).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)\">President Catherine Connolly shakes hands with Democratic Unionist Party MP for East Londonderry Gregory Campbell during a civic reception at the Guildhall, Derry, on day two of her visit to Northern Ireland. Photo: 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)\">President Catherine Connolly committed a &#8220;diplomatic faux pas&#8221; in her visit to Northern Ireland, DUP MP Gregory Campbell has claimed.<\/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)\">In an email to party members Mr Campbell said President Connolly &#8220;missed the opportunity&#8221; to demonstrate &#8220;reconciliation&#8221; in contrast to Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s state visit to Ireland in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Catherine Connolly shakes hands with Democratic Unionist Party MP for East Londonderry Gregory Campbell during a civic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,2443,101141],"class_list":["post-284972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-northern-ireland","tag-press-association-pa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284972","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=284972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}