{"id":360690,"date":"2026-03-23T09:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360690\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T09:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:44:11","slug":"unsuccessful-wexford-election-candidate-conducted-his-own-exit-poll-on-day-of-referendum-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360690\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsuccessful Wexford election candidate conducted his own exit poll on day of referendum, court hears"},"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\">Darren McGovern unsuccessfully contested the local elections in Wexford standing on an Ireland First platform\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Darren McGovern.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/baaba0b9-228b-4cad-ba7c-928aeedc2ff6.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)\">Darren McGovern.<\/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)\">An attempt by a Wexford man to conduct his own exit poll at his local polling station on the day of a referendum proved to be illegal.<\/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)\">Appearing before the Circuit Court was Darren McGovern (49) of Larkview Lodge, Ballytarsna, Askamore, Co Wexford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darren McGovern unsuccessfully contested the local elections in Wexford standing on an Ireland First platform Darren McGovern. An&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24533,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-360690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-david-medcalf","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360690","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=360690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}