{"id":472263,"date":"2026-05-29T01:35:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/472263\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T01:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:35:50","slug":"mary-lous-gamble-sinn-fein-is-not-picking-a-side-for-now-it-may-be-playing-the-long-game-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/472263\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Lou&#039;s gamble: Sinn F\u00e9in is not picking a side for now \u2013 it may be playing the long game &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiekFVX3lxTFBBTDFFU0RmaG9MRkpJSU8xMWFId2V6bm9hQmJiMnJkMF9oRFJkWVU2RTc0QTNkcGh6MjJQQVVhY09JVURWd0cxaEhaN2ZPRm0tWjhCaVAxUmpIYzJwVmV5VmhWVHlBLXVNY1pMQzZnaVZqQ2ZOSmx1TVFB?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mary Lou&#8217;s gamble: Sinn F\u00e9in is not picking a side for now \u2013 it may be playing the long game<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiigFBVV95cUxPSkhnZzBNZGVFZm8zU204MENoLVl5THZlUmREOWthSklyLS1WQ1VSMkIzQ0tBOHJJUS13Q2Z6OVEyaWNja3R4U01sMXlmdk5OcWs5ZnZEWC1SclpoNVdTR3FjaVVkbjlnUjF0NW0wZlJsOXM3ajhESFBQYWFBR3BsUVBuajdlUWVGd2c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Weather, Thu 28 May 2026<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi2gFBVV95cUxOVE5KeHdkNUNVOUlwMmYzZ1dHZkRpbDFZb3JldTdKZWFibFJhaGxsSmtnTDViRTBXMU1XNHEtZXFsWGRENXZneGRPTDVlaWtJY1dJNFk4UEVTU2xrdmpSRUd2TmdYYnJoY3BZSGQtcDBUTldWQnd3ekVQU1lWOW1Cb0lFUWJpdVBVVkdPUHZvd3VDT1lkMDJaTTRGeHBSb3ZlUm9MRzdsRnVBN3dXWVR2YWY5YmhfcUc5U3RtbnJEbUR0OWFUbUo4dm9na2M0ajFvUnhvamM2RXRlZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In an age of misinformation and provocation, here\u2019s who stood by the people in recent byelections<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqAFBVV95cUxNQkUwcGFxdmlERG9uQWJUUWd6Z05oa0ZlQkZray1qeC1zX240Y2hwa2t1RmtQMUZYVERpRFAydlRuNG56cWRrTnlrOVFxNmc1QjZYb0JjSGI2elZaMkJsSUt0YWRkNzhXNk1YMnpBSkZHWXh6dms0V0ZON0xBTHRnTUVtSnRFWDlaYVl5UHVLNy1rYmpqZHk5ejNaOHVHeDVuNU4zQ1V5YVg?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dark clouds for Fianna F\u00e1il and Sinn F\u00e9in in byelections<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BreakingNews.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMixAFBVV95cUxPRE9obHo1Qk5lU0dVUXNBendKbHdydGJHYzRqZVVHVDNFWFgzeE0xQ3dudTVZZlhESVJLZnFtQVBKUG15bm1PWWt2Vi01V095Y2dGQ0NBVFFuTGhTdXBWMFFwcXNtMkJPclJmTkhianQzTWE2aWw4enFyTElMeFpVOTN6WF96dkVEMlA4STdVRzd0dWR2ejljMDRoeFllejRrUjlFZnI1cTZSYlB5NGk1OUxPVkFKR3ZRMV9VSTRtaGo4c3cy?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Letters: Sinn F\u00e9in slide could bring a return of \u2018Civil War politics\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary Lou&#8217;s gamble: Sinn F\u00e9in is not picking a side for now \u2013 it may be playing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[194871,33557,4644,61,60,203856,7038,3658,43,387,203857,3415,3187],"class_list":["post-472263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-byelections","tag-column","tag-elections","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-elections","tag-irish-politics","tag-mary-lou-mcdonald","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-sinn-fein-left-wing","tag-sinn-fein","tag-voices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472263","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=472263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}