{"id":450762,"date":"2026-05-15T20:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/450762\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T20:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:07:19","slug":"watch-barry-lenihans-bye-election-explainer-for-news2day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/450762\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Barry Lenihan&#8217;s bye-election explainer for news2day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is a bye-election? Why are they called? It is time for another news2day Explainer, with thanks to RT\u00c9&#8217;s Political Correspondent Barry Lenihan.<\/p>\n<p>In the video above, recorded by Barry at Leinster House, we learn all about them and some key parts of the Irish political system overall too.<\/p>\n<p>A bye-election is an election to fill a D\u00e1il seat that has been vacated in between general elections, and we have one taking place very soon.<\/p>\n<p>Voters in Dublin Central and Galway West are set to go to the polls on 22 May. These represent the 137th and 138th bye-elections since the foundation of the Irish State.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/politics\/2026\/0422\/1569617-q-and-a-bye-election\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RT\u00c9 News article<\/a> from Barry is full of information about the upcoming bye-elections.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in to news2day weekdays at 4.20pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player during the school term.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news2day\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.rte.ie\/news2day<\/a> for more from the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is a bye-election? Why are they called? It is time for another news2day Explainer, with thanks to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-450762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450762","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=450762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}