{"id":38039,"date":"2025-09-23T07:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/38039\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T07:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:15:08","slug":"i-wont-be-lectured-by-the-green-party-wexford-councillor-unimpressed-by-roderic-ogorman-visit-to-ecological-disaster-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/38039\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I won\u2019t be lectured by the Green Party\u2019 \u2013 Wexford councillor unimpressed by Roderic O\u2019Gorman visit to \u2018ecological disaster\u2019 site"},"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\">Local elected reps irked by accusation that they are not supportive of campaign to save Lady\u2019s Island Lake\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roderic O'Gorman TD pictured with Senator Malcolm Noonan signing the petition during the Save Our Lady's Island campaign on Saturday. Pic: Jim Campbell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5c24d341-0e90-4c16-8c27-ca7749db5581.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)\">Roderic O&#8217;Gorman TD pictured with Senator Malcolm Noonan signing the petition during the Save Our Lady&#8217;s Island campaign on Saturday. Pic: Jim Campbell<\/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)\">Given that an \u201cecological disaster\u201d has been unfolding at the beautiful Lady&#8217;s Island Lake in south Wexford for some four decades now, it&#8217;s probably fair that Green Party leader Roderic O\u2019Gorman pointed out a political failure to address the issue when he arrived in Wexford last week.<\/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)\">However, Green Party accusations of a lack of local political support for the campaign to save Lady\u2019s Island Lake, have irked some with one councillor stating: \u201cI won&#8217;t be lectured by the Green Party.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local elected reps irked by accusation that they are not supportive of campaign to save Lady\u2019s Island Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,10489],"class_list":["post-38039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-padraig-byrne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38039","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=38039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}