{"id":67924,"date":"2025-10-08T20:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/67924\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T20:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:33:10","slug":"catherine-connolly-her-work-for-the-banks-and-her-repossessions-silence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/67924\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Connolly, her work for the banks and her repossessions silence"},"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\">Presidential candidate previously said claim she was barrister for Bank of Scotland Ireland was a \u2018cowardly personal attack\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly was questioned about her previous work as a barrister during a visit to the offices of Alone in Dublin. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759955590_830_IRISH Pre (64).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)\">Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly was questioned about her previous work as a barrister during a visit to the offices of Alone in Dublin. Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p>Eavan Murray and Maeve McTaggart<\/p>\n<p>Today at 20:50<\/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)\">O\u2019Reilly\u2019s bar in Salthill faces out towards the choppy waters of Galway Bay, but it was the scene of a stormy exchange that Catherine Connolly described as \u201ca cowardly personal attack\u201d.<\/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 Independent TD was accused by a Fine Gael councillor of representing a bank in repossession cases despite \u201cjumping up and down\u201d about housing and homelessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presidential candidate previously said claim she was barrister for Bank of Scotland Ireland was a \u2018cowardly personal attack\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3656,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-67924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67924","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=67924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}