{"id":59056,"date":"2025-10-03T10:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/59056\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:10:10","slug":"catherine-connolly-insists-gun-convict-was-not-eirigi-member-when-she-was-hired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/59056\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Connolly insists gun convict was not \u00c9ir\u00edg\u00ed member when she was hired"},"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\">Connolly rejects suggestion she engaged with Gardai over job offer as \u2018incorrect\u2019\u2018Questions need to be asked\u2019 \u2013 Ms Connolly questions how story became leaked <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Independent candidate Catherine Connolly. Photo: Stephen Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/413ea342-a0ff-49c7-83c9-4ab30eeed1a8.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)\">Independent candidate Catherine Connolly. Photo: Stephen Collins<\/p>\n<p>Eavan Murray and Mary Regan<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/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)\">Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly has insisted a gun convict she brought in to work in her D\u00e1il office was no longer a member of \u00c9ir\u00edg\u00ed at the time, even though the group continued to refer to her as a \u201ccomrade\u201d while she was in prison.<\/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)\">Ms Connolly told the Irish Independent last night that she was certain Ursula N\u00ed Shionn\u00e1in was not in the anti-peace process organisation when she was trying to secure a job for her in Leinster House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connolly rejects suggestion she engaged with Gardai over job offer as \u2018incorrect\u2019\u2018Questions need to be asked\u2019 \u2013 Ms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8938,45,3656,41286,24119,895,61,60,3657,6189,25081,1843,43,978,3415],"class_list":["post-59056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-alan-kelly","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-eamon-o-cuiv","tag-eavan-murray","tag-fianna-fail","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ivana-bacik","tag-labour-party","tag-mary-regan","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-presidential-election","tag-sinn-fein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59056","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=59056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}