{"id":482920,"date":"2026-06-04T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/482920\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:47:08","slug":"social-democrats-leader-expecting-second-child-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/482920\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Democrats leader expecting second child in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns has announced that she is pregnant with her second child.<\/p>\n<p>The Cork South-West TD said, in a statement, that having a family should not be disqualifying for a political party leader.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Cairns also said that she was grateful for the support of the parliamentary party and her constituents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so happy to announce that we are expecting our second child. Barry (Looney) and I are so excited and feel extremely lucky to be able to raise our family in West Cork.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Social Democrats deputy leader Cian O&#8217;Callaghan will step in as acting leader when Ms Cairns goes on maternity leave in October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2024\/1129\/1483762-holly-cairns-baby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">She has one daughter, born on the day of the last general election in November 2024<\/a>, meaning that she was unable to cast a vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns has announced that she is pregnant with her second child. The Cork South-West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-482920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482920","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=482920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}