{"id":31139,"date":"2025-09-19T16:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/31139\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:09:08","slug":"mary-regan-what-now-for-eoin-hayes-the-man-who-gave-up-a-million-euro-for-a-life-of-political-obscurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/31139\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Regan: What now for Eoin Hayes, the man who gave up a million euro for a life of political obscurity?"},"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\">Fianna F\u00e1il\u2019s Cathal Crowe says \u2018someone had it in\u2019 for Social Democrats TD\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Social Democrats TD Eoin Hayes at Leinster House earlier this year. Photo: Sam Boal\/Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Eoin Hayes File013.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)\">Social Democrats TD Eoin Hayes at Leinster House earlier this year. Photo: Sam Boal\/Collins<\/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)\">Eoin Hayes cut a forlorn political figure, sitting on the back benches of the D\u00e1il chamber. No longer in the no man\u2019s land of the far-back corner, between Danny Healy-Rae and the wall, he is now sitting behind the rest of the Social Democrats since being readmitted to the party.<\/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)\">But there was plenty of distance and little interaction with his party colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fianna F\u00e1il\u2019s Cathal Crowe says \u2018someone had it in\u2019 for Social Democrats TD Social Democrats TD Eoin Hayes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5456,895,42,25081,43,1419,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-31139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-barack-obama","tag-fianna-fail","tag-headlines","tag-mary-regan","tag-news","tag-social-democrats","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31139","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=31139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}