{"id":34240,"date":"2025-09-21T08:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/34240\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T08:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:54:10","slug":"joe-brolly-jim-gavin-may-not-be-elected-as-president-but-his-rules-fix-will-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/34240\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Brolly: Jim Gavin may not be elected as President but his rules fix will live forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fianna F\u00e1il candidate for the Presidential election Jim Gavin. Photo: Stephen Collins\/Collins Photos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3da62414-7087-4d70-a86c-c00c66f2d227.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)\">Fianna F\u00e1il candidate for the Presidential election Jim Gavin. Photo: Stephen Collins\/Collins Photos<\/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)\">When Henry Shefflin went to Galway, I thought of Martha Wainwright\u2019s great line in her song \u2018Factory\u2019, \u201cThese are not my people, I should never have come here.\u201d<\/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)\">Brian Cody\u2019s iron handshake that drew the blood from Henry\u2019s hand and face suddenly became his legacy. Cody did not say a word to Henry that day, but his aura roared, \u2018You f**king traitor\u2019. Upsetting Cody in Kilkenny is like an American comedian upsetting Donald Trump. When I spent a week in Kilkenny last year, people were shaking their heads sadly at what had become of Henry. Like Jimmy Kimmel, he had been cancelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fianna F\u00e1il candidate for the Presidential election Jim Gavin. Photo: Stephen Collins\/Collins Photos When Henry Shefflin went to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3656,2044,61,60,2043,26885,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-34240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-catherine-connolly","9":"tag-heather-humphreys","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jim-gavin","13":"tag-joe-brolly","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34240","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=34240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}