{"id":44634,"date":"2025-09-26T13:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44634\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:03:04","slug":"verona-murphy-cuts-short-public-meeting-after-being-blindsided-by-developer-i-am-not-going-to-continue-when-he-wants-to-put-his-side-across","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44634\/","title":{"rendered":"Verona Murphy cuts short public meeting after being \u2018blindsided\u2019 by developer \u2013 \u2018I am not going to continue when he wants to put his side across\u2019"},"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\">Ceann Comhairle was hosting a meeting in Rosslare regarding a controversial hotel site which had been intended for an IPAS centre, telling the crowd: \u2018We all know that I no longer need a vote to be elected\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ceann Comhairle, Verona Murphy TD, in the Dail chamber (PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a5dc1001-b073-40be-834a-f712181aa0e9.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)\">Ceann Comhairle, Verona Murphy TD, in the Dail chamber (PA)<\/p>\n<p>Cillian Boggan, P\u00e1draig Byrne and Simon Bourke<\/p>\n<p>Wexford PeopleToday at 14:19<\/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)\">A public meeting in Wexford to discuss the future of a former hotel building ended abruptly on Thursday night after Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy claimed she was \u201cblindsided\u201d by the developer of the site after he turned up and spoke at the gathering. <\/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)\">In an extraordinary moment, Deputy Murphy told the crowd: \u201cI am not going to continue a meeting where Mr. (Aidan) Gallagher wants to put his side across\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ceann Comhairle was hosting a meeting in Rosslare regarding a controversial hotel site which had been intended for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3502,61,60,43,10489,920,27999],"class_list":{"0":"post-44634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cillian-boggan","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-padraig-byrne","13":"tag-simon-bourke","14":"tag-verona-murphy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44634","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=44634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}