{"id":614832,"date":"2026-09-05T01:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T01:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/614832\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T01:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T01:28:11","slug":"fresh-questions-for-labour-over-helen-ogbu-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/614832\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh questions for Labour over Helen Ogbu controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent Ireland Leader, Michael Collins TD and Galway West Cllr Noel Thomas have said that the Labour Party and its leader \u201ccannot have it both ways\u201d when it comes to the Helen Ogbu saga.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came after the Irish Daily Mail reported this morning that Labour leader Ivana Bacik \u201crefused\u201d to apologise \u201cnine times\u201d for repeating the questionable timeline about when Ogbu claimed asylum in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get unlimited access to Gript<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Independent Ireland Leader, Michael Collins TD and Galway West Cllr Noel Thomas have said that the Labour Party&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,197845,61,25919,60,3657],"class_list":["post-614832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-helen-ogbu","tag-ie","tag-independent-ireland","tag-ireland","tag-ivana-bacik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614832","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=614832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}