{"id":615475,"date":"2026-09-05T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615475\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:06:10","slug":"mick-clifford-how-common-sense-is-fuelling-the-rise-of-right-wing-populism-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615475\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Clifford: How \u2018common sense\u2019 is fuelling the rise of right-wing populism in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">This week a political defection sank without a trace. Michael Sheehan, a long-time councillor in Wexford, joined Independent Ireland. Sheehan had once been in Fianna F\u00e1il, but went out on his own in recent years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He told his local newspaper his former party was not the organisation he signed up for in 1997.<\/p>\n<p> This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/185-IE-Storefront.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t    \t185th <br \/>Anniversary Offer<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">Six months of digital access for \u20ac18.50<\/p>\n<p> No obligation. Ts&amp;Cs apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week a political defection sank without a trace. Michael Sheehan, a long-time councillor in Wexford, joined Independent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5658,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-615475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-irish-examiner-instagram","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615475","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=615475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}