{"id":430762,"date":"2026-05-03T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430762\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T21:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:21:09","slug":"business-man-who-contested-general-elections-in-kerry-on-ballot-for-dublin-and-galway-by-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430762\/","title":{"rendered":"Business man who contested general elections in Kerry on ballot for Dublin and Galway by-elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An independent candidate who has contested general elections in Kerry, is running the upcoming by-elections in Dublin and Galway.<\/p>\n<p>Cork businessman, John O\u2019Leary, who\u2019s from Kerry Pike, is on the ballot for both the Dublin Central and Galway West constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>He ran in Kerry and six other constituencies in the 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/general-election\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">general election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr O\u2019Leary was also on the ballot for the 2020 general election in 11\u00a0constituencies including Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>14 candidates are vying to fill Pascal Donohoe\u2019s former seat in Dublin Central; while 17 have registered to contest for the seat left vacant by President Catherine Connolly.<\/p>\n<p>The by-elections will take place on May 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An independent candidate who has contested general elections in Kerry, is running the upcoming by-elections in Dublin and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[188165,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-430762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-by-elections","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430762","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=430762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}