{"id":454550,"date":"2026-05-18T08:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454550\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T08:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:03:11","slug":"micheal-martin-warns-off-fianna-fail-leadership-challengers-ahead-of-lost-cause-by-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454550\/","title":{"rendered":"Miche\u00e1l Martin warns off Fianna F\u00e1il leadership challengers ahead of \u2018lost cause\u2019 by-elections"},"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\">Most in party see by-elections as \u2018lost causes\u2019 Fine Gael has a fighting chance in Galway West, while Sinn F\u00e9in leads the polls in Dublin Central\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Taoiseach and Fianna F\u00e1il leader Micheal Martin arrives to make his keynote address during the party's ard fheis at Dublin Royal Convention Centre. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/22714fe8-3835-4b40-92be-757768ec5204.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)\">Taoiseach and Fianna F\u00e1il leader Micheal Martin arrives to make his keynote address during the party&#8217;s ard fheis at Dublin Royal Convention Centre. Photo: PA<\/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)\">Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has warned his rivals against trying to create fresh leadership controversy after Friday\u2019s by-elections.<\/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 voting in Galway West and Dublin Central will have implications for all three of the main party leaders, with most in Fianna F\u00e1il seeing them as \u201clost causes\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most in party see by-elections as \u2018lost causes\u2019 Fine Gael has a fighting chance in Galway West, while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[68707,7196,895,42,1843,43,2042,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-454550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-by-election","tag-eamon-de-valera","tag-fianna-fail","tag-headlines","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-senan-molony","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454550","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=454550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}