{"id":61913,"date":"2025-10-05T06:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/61913\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T06:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:53:09","slug":"eilis-ohanlon-catherine-connolly-is-surging-ahead-in-the-presidential-race-because-her-rivals-stand-for-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/61913\/","title":{"rendered":"Eilis O\u2019Hanlon: Catherine Connolly is surging ahead in the presidential race because her rivals stand for nothing"},"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\">Jim Gavin must know he is in trouble when even the Fianna F\u00e1il party faithful are lukewarm about voting for him\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cartoon by Harry Burton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ff225162-f285-42ce-bba5-676efc0a6cd1.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)\">Cartoon by Harry Burton<\/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 bad news for Fine Gael\u2019s Heather Humphreys is that just 6pc of people thought she won the first TV debate of the presidential election campaign.<\/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 sole crumb of good news is that her Fianna F\u00e1il rival Jim Gavin did even worse, with a mere one in 20 (5pc) in today\u2019s Sunday Independent\/Ireland Thinks poll deeming him to have emerged victorious from that battle of wits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jim Gavin must know he is in trouble when even the Fianna F\u00e1il party faithful are lukewarm about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5244,3656,969,42622,895,3775,2044,61,60,2043,15692,977,43,6236,978,3415],"class_list":["post-61913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-budget-2026","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-donald-trump","tag-eilis-ohanlon","tag-fianna-fail","tag-fine-gael","tag-heather-humphreys","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jim-gavin","tag-mary-robinson","tag-michael-d-higgins","tag-news","tag-nigel-farage","tag-presidential-election","tag-sinn-fein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61913","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=61913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}