{"id":50069,"date":"2025-09-29T06:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/50069\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T06:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:12:08","slug":"irish-presidential-election-jim-gavin-in-race-against-time-to-sway-voters-outside-gaa-sphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/50069\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish presidential election: Jim Gavin in race against time to sway voters outside GAA sphere"},"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\">The Fianna F\u00e1il candidate also admitted to nerves before the first debate of the presidential election campaign\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fianna F\u00e1il presidential candidate Jim Gavin (right) shakes hands with MEP Billy Kelleher. Mr Gavin and Mr Kelleher had both sought the party\u2019s candidacy. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sidential Launch 04.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)\">Fianna F\u00e1il presidential candidate Jim Gavin (right) shakes hands with MEP Billy Kelleher. Mr Gavin and Mr Kelleher had both sought the party\u2019s candidacy. 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)\">A relative unknown to those outside the world of the GAA \u2013 and to many of those within the Fianna F\u00e1il party until Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin produced him as a candidate \u2013 Jim Gavin has less than a month to acquaint himself with voters.<\/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 only candidate without an electoral record, his presidential campaign will be leaning on his roots in the GAA, his work with the Defence Forces and his work in north-east inner-city Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fianna F\u00e1il candidate also admitted to nerves before the first debate of the presidential election campaign Fianna&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[764,2183,2179,895,61,60,2043,15552,1843,43,978],"class_list":["post-50069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-croke-park","tag-dean-rock","tag-dublin-gaa","tag-fianna-fail","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jim-gavin","tag-maeve-mctaggart","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-presidential-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50069","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=50069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}