{"id":317509,"date":"2026-02-26T02:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317509\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T02:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:49:12","slug":"if-you-are-in-the-centre-and-everybody-else-moves-left-all-of-a-sudden-you-look-right-wing-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317509\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If you are in the centre and everybody else moves left, all of a sudden you look right wing\u2019 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Campaigner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/maria-steen\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/maria-steen\/\">Maria Steen<\/a>, whose failed bid to launch a run for the presidency last year put a spotlight on the nominations process, talks to Hugh Linehan and Ellen Coyne about that campaign. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">She talks about whether she could have won the election had she got that nomination and why not enough councils supported her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">She also talks about Catherine Connolly\u2019s first 100 days in office, why she is uncomfortable with the labels \u2018conservative\u2019 and \u2018right wing\u2019 and whether Catholicism is a hindrance to taking part in public life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campaigner Maria Steen, whose failed bid to launch a run for the presidency last year put a spotlight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,148047,148046,61,60,124128,14885],"class_list":{"0":"post-317509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ellen-coyne","10":"tag-hugh-linehan","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-irish-times","14":"tag-maria-steen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317509","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=317509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}