{"id":40733,"date":"2025-09-24T13:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/40733\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:49:07","slug":"irelands-presidential-election-will-be-a-3-way-fight-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/40733\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s presidential election will be a 3-way fight \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The race now will pit one anti-establishment lawmaker from Ireland\u2019s left-wing opposition, Catherine Connolly<\/a>, against politicians from the two center-ground parties in Ireland\u2019s coalition government: Cabinet veteran Heather Humphreys<\/a> of Fine Gael and sports hero Jim Gavin<\/a> of Fianna F\u00e1il.<\/p>\n

This marks the fewest candidates to qualify for a presidential ballot since Ireland\u2019s watershed 1990 election, when Mary Robinson<\/a>, a civil rights lawyer from the opposition Labour Party, became the first non-Fianna F\u00e1il figure to win the presidency in a three-way contest. Connolly, an independent socialist with backing from both Labour and the main opposition Sinn F\u00e9in,<\/a> will be hoping history repeats itself.<\/p>\n

Fine Gael, Ireland\u2019s most pro-EU party, has never won a presidential election. But this time, all opinion polls have placed Humphreys in pole position, reflecting her reputation as a popular figure and canny campaigner<\/a> in rural Ireland. That early consensus is backed by gambling markets<\/a>, which rate the Fine Gaeler as the safest bet.<\/p>\n

Ireland\u2019s president has no role in government but must sign all legislation before it can become law. This review power means that, in relatively rare cases<\/a>, the president can refer legislation already approved by the parliament and government to the Supreme Court to determine whether it is constitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The race now will pit one anti-establishment lawmaker from Ireland\u2019s left-wing opposition, Catherine Connolly, against politicians from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4644,30870,61,60,7038,43],"class_list":["post-40733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-elections","tag-elections-in-europe","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-politics","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40733","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=40733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}