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Social Democrats’ byelection candidate slams Bertie Ahern’s immigration comments as ‘vile’<\/a>  The JournalAhern migrant comments ‘disturbing’ – Muslim body chair<\/a>  RTE.ieEx-Irish PM Ahern clarifies immigration stance after ‘I worry about Africans’ recording<\/a>  BBC‘I\u2019ve no problem with people from the Congo or Africa’, Bertie Ahern says<\/a>  BreakingNews.ieIrish ex-PM caught making anti-African and anti-Muslim comments on election trail<\/a>  politico.eu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Social Democrats’ byelection candidate slams Bertie Ahern’s immigration comments as ‘vile’  The JournalAhern migrant comments ‘disturbing’ – Muslim body…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[894,86333,194869,194870,194871,194872,185683,61,60,43,1419,11259,66706],"class_list":["post-447981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-bertie-ahern","tag-by-election-2026","tag-byelection-2026","tag-byelection-26","tag-byelections","tag-daniel-ennis","tag-dublin-central-byelection","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-social-democrats","tag-the-morning-lead","tag-tml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447981","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=447981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}