{"id":60574,"date":"2025-10-04T07:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/60574\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T07:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:22:10","slug":"gun-convict-ursula-ni-shionnain-was-at-eirigi-event-in-same-month-she-took-job-in-catherine-connollys-dail-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/60574\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun convict Ursula N\u00ed Shionn\u00e1in was at \u00c9ir\u00edg\u00ed event in same month she took job in Catherine Connolly\u2019s D\u00e1il office"},"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\">Previously the presidential candidate insisted she was satisfied the woman had left the organisation before being hired\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Presidential Candidate Catherine Connolly at the Custom House, Dublin. Photo: Stephen Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/therine Connolly_01.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)\">Presidential Candidate Catherine Connolly at the Custom House, Dublin. Photo: Stephen Collins<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Galvin and Eavan Murray<\/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)\">The woman convicted of gun offences, and who was employed in Catherine Connolly\u2019s D\u00e1il office in January 2019, attended the ard fheis of \u00c9ir\u00edg\u00ed that same month.<\/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 Irish Independent has seen an image that shows Ursula N\u00ed Shionn\u00e1in attending the annual conference of the organisation \u2013 a group that has \u201cno loyalty\u201d to the State, which advocates a \u201cnew Republic\u201d and which opposes the peace process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Previously the presidential candidate insisted she was satisfied the woman had left the organisation before being hired Presidential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3656,24119,42,1718,3658,43,978,3415,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-60574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-eavan-murray","tag-headlines","tag-kevin-galvin","tag-mary-lou-mcdonald","tag-news","tag-presidential-election","tag-sinn-fein","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60574","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=60574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}