{"id":288245,"date":"2026-02-09T02:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288245\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T02:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:59:15","slug":"mary-hanafin-insists-taoiseach-wont-lead-ff-into-next-election-as-she-backs-rival-jim-ocallaghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288245\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Hanafin insists Taoiseach won\u2019t lead FF into next election as she backs rival Jim O\u2019Callaghan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jim O'Callaghan and Micheal Martin Photo: Tom Burke\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69fdc83e-93c0-4389-ba97-81ddceeb95b2.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)\">Jim O&#8217;Callaghan and Micheal Martin Photo: Tom Burke<\/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)\">Former minister Mary Hanafin has said there is \u201cnot a chance\u201d that Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin will lead his party into the next election as she tipped Justice Minister Jim O\u2019Callaghan as his successor.<\/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)\">It comes as Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin told the Sunday Independent that he intends to lead Fianna F\u00e1il into the next general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest\u00a0|\u00a0 Jim O&#8217;Callaghan and Micheal Martin Photo: Tom Burke Former minister Mary Hanafin has said there is \u201cnot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,18573,15552,1843,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-288245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-jim-ocallaghan","11":"tag-maeve-mctaggart","12":"tag-micheal-martin","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288245","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=288245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}