{"id":629458,"date":"2026-09-19T10:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629458\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T10:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:14:11","slug":"mick-clifford-political-abuse-is-rising-and-ireland-risks-losing-the-people-democracy-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629458\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Clifford: Political abuse is rising \u2014 and Ireland risks losing the people democracy needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">On March 31, 2010, Eamon Gilmore accused Brian Cowen of \u201ceconomic treason\u201d. The exchange happened in the D\u00e1il and was in relation to the decision in the bank guarantee two years previously to include Anglo Irish Bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The implication of what the Labour Party leader was saying was that Cowen was more concerned with elites \u2014 many of them from outside the country \u2014 than doing his best for the Irish people. <\/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\/1789812851_447_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":"On March 31, 2010, Eamon Gilmore accused Brian Cowen of \u201ceconomic treason\u201d. The exchange happened in the D\u00e1il&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,267239,43],"class_list":["post-629458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mick-clifford","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629458","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=629458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}