{"id":421259,"date":"2026-04-28T07:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421259\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:09:10","slug":"edelman-ceo-seeks-answers-over-firms-handling-of-jim-glennon-reference-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421259\/","title":{"rendered":"Edelman CEO seeks answers over firm\u2019s handling of Jim Glennon reference controversy"},"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\">Global head of PR company, Richard Edelman, says he was \u2018not aware of this situation\u2019 regarding queries on sex offender character reference by ex-Fianna F\u00e1il TD\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777360150_477_video.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)\">Former TD Jim Glennon has revealed himself to be the former politician who gave a character reference for convicted child sex offender<br \/>\n_duplicated<\/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 global head of PR giant Edelman has contacted the team in charge of his Irish firm for clarity over its handling of the Jim Glennon controversy.<\/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)\">Until yesterday, Richard Edelman, president and CEO of the firm, said he \u201cwas not aware\u201d that former Edelman Ireland chair Mr Glennon had provided a character reference for a convicted sex offender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Global head of PR company, Richard Edelman, says he was \u2018not aware of this situation\u2019 regarding queries on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48326,15049,9924,895,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-421259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-catherine-fegan","tag-dail-eireann","tag-dublin-courts","tag-fianna-fail","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421259","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=421259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}