{"id":634757,"date":"2026-09-24T17:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/634757\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:36:09","slug":"former-election-candidate-appointed-to-new-role-with-independent-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/634757\/","title":{"rendered":"Former election candidate appointed to new role with Independent Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former general election candidate has been appointed to new role at Independent Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>West Sligo-based Cllr Michael Clarke contested the 2024 general election in Sligo-Leitrim.<\/p>\n<p>He narrowly missed out on election after picking up over 5 and a half thousand first preference votes.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Clarke has been appointed as the party&#8217;s spokesperson on Environment and Local Government.<\/p>\n<p>He feels greater supports are needed for those on the ground:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former general election candidate has been appointed to new role at Independent Ireland. West Sligo-based Cllr Michael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,269612,43],"class_list":["post-634757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-michael-clarke","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634757","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=634757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}