{"id":32,"date":"2025-09-05T03:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/32\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T03:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:17:50","slug":"bertie-ahern-rules-himself-out-of-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/32\/","title":{"rendered":"Bertie Ahern rules himself out of Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Taoiseach and Fianna F\u00e1il leader Bertie Ahern has withdrawn from the running to be the next President of Ireland.<\/p>\n

In an online message to supporters, Mr Ahern outlined his reasons for stepping back.<\/p>\n

Just last week, the Taoiseach from 1997 to 2008 didn’t rule himself out, despite the emergence of Jim Gavin as the preference of the leadership of the Fianna F\u00e1il party.<\/p>\n

In the message, Mr Ahern also claimed current Taoiseach Micheal Martin is ‘anti-me\u2019 and spoke of the economy and the Mahon Tribunal.<\/p>\n

Outlining his reasons for not continuing with a bid for \u00c1ras an Uachtar\u00e1in, Mr Ahern said: “I suppose [Miche\u00e1l Martin] saw in his view that there was a candidate 20 years younger and somebody from outside the party.<\/p>\n

“In all my time in Fianna F\u00e1il, I’ve never seen a period where the leadership really lose out in these things.”<\/p>\n

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\nBertie Ahern had recently expressed disappointment that he would not be considered by Fianna F\u00e1il for the presidency<\/p>\n

Mr Ahern also ruled out running as an independent candidate.<\/p>\n

“As a former leader of the party, I respect Fianna F\u00e1il and its legacy far too much to even consider that independent idea,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I’ve always been a Fianna F\u00e1il person.<\/p>\n

“I suppose the only area where [Miche\u00e1l Martin] has indicated in the past why he was anti-me was the Mahon Tribunal and the economy.”<\/p>\n

He added: “I don\u2019t think we can say too much about the economy because we were all in it together, trying to make sure the economy was the best we could.”<\/p>\n

“The reality is that the economy from \u201997 to today has grown practically nearly every year bar the years of the international recession which was a worldwide recession.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Taoiseach and Fianna F\u00e1il leader Bertie Ahern has withdrawn from the running to be the next President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","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=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}