{"id":395896,"date":"2026-04-13T07:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395896\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:53:09","slug":"fionnan-sheahan-oil-fires-going-nowhere-amid-mcentee-ocallaghan-bust-up-while-cabinet-critics-circle-garda-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395896\/","title":{"rendered":"Fionn\u00e1n Sheahan: Oil fires going nowhere amid McEntee-O\u2019Callaghan bust-up while cabinet critics circle garda chief"},"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\">The slow pace of the garda movement on the fuel protesters has enraged some ministers within the Government<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan's army threat only emboldened the protesters. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages_2247963701.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)\">Justice Minister Jim O&#8217;Callaghan&#8217;s army threat only emboldened the protesters. Photo: Getty<\/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)\">The oil thrown on the fire by the fuel protests is going to burn for some time \u2013 not least around the cabinet table in Government.<\/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)\">Jim O\u2019Callaghan\u2019s standing within the Government and Fianna F\u00e1il has certainly taken a hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The slow pace of the garda movement on the fuel protesters has enraged some ministers within the Government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2244,3774,1556,61,60,18573,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-395896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-fionnan-sheahan","10":"tag-helen-mcentee","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-jim-ocallaghan","14":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395896","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=395896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}