{"id":459760,"date":"2026-05-21T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/459760\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:30:08","slug":"voters-urged-to-use-their-vote-in-by-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/459760\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters urged to use their vote in by elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People in Galway West and Dublin Central are being encouraged to use their votes in tomorrow\u2019s by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from the Electoral Commission will be out on O\u2019Connell and Henry Street in Dublin today to share tips on voting, and to answer questions.<\/p>\n<p>There are two Dail seats up for grabs, one for each constituency, and voting takes place between 7am and 10pm.<\/p>\n<p>Art O\u2019Leary, Chief Executive of the commission, says every vote counts\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vote.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vote.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People in Galway West and Dublin Central are being encouraged to use their votes in tomorrow\u2019s by-elections. Representatives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-459760","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\/459760","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=459760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}