{"id":401905,"date":"2026-04-16T16:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401905\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:51:12","slug":"president-connolly-to-convene-council-of-state-to-assess-newly-passed-international-protection-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401905\/","title":{"rendered":"President Connolly to convene Council of State to assess newly passed International Protection Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President Catherine Connolly. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9c738be4-7df3-418f-83a1-a7f779ebe0e8.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)\">President Catherine Connolly. 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)\">President Catherine Connolly is to convene the Council of State for the first time in her term of office &#8211; on the newly-passed International Protection Bill.<\/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 legislation, piloted by Justice Minister Jim O&#8217;Callaghan, passed all stages on Wednesday night with final votes on submitted amendments from the Seanad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Catherine Connolly. Photo: Getty President Catherine Connolly is to convene the Council of State for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3656,61,60,18573,43,2042],"class_list":{"0":"post-401905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-catherine-connolly","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-jim-ocallaghan","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-senan-molony"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401905","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=401905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}