{"id":70155,"date":"2025-10-09T19:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/70155\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:32:08","slug":"debate-sparks-fly-as-heather-humphreys-links-catherine-connolly-to-neville-chamberlains-1930s-appeasement-of-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/70155\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate sparks fly as Heather Humphreys links Catherine Connolly to Neville Chamberlain&#8217;s 1930s appeasement of Hitler"},"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\">The two candidates set out their stall \u2013 with international viewpoints proving the biggest divide\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Presidential candidate Heather Humphreys canvassing along the Grand Canal in Dublin. Photo: Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/98c2f652-61ae-467f-809f-9d108ba59e07.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 Heather Humphreys canvassing along the Grand Canal in Dublin. Photo: Collins<\/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)\">Heather Humphreys has suggested that Catherine Connolly&#8217;s international outlook is akin to Neville Chamberlain&#8217;s 1930s appeasement of Adolf Hitler.<\/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 two candidates clashed on RT\u00c9 Radio 1&#8217;s Drivetime programme today with Sarah McInerney and Cormac \u00d3 hEadhra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two candidates set out their stall \u2013 with international viewpoints proving the biggest divide Presidential candidate Heather&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47149,3656,3775,1814,97,292,2044,807,3662,61,1629,60,3410,6189,43,4268,978,6085,6129,3589,2042,3415,2040,5936],"class_list":["post-70155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-arlene-foster","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-fine-gael","tag-france","tag-gaza","tag-germany","tag-heather-humphreys","tag-housing","tag-housing-crisis","tag-ie","tag-immigration","tag-ireland","tag-israel","tag-labour-party","tag-news","tag-palestine","tag-presidential-election","tag-rte","tag-rte-radio-1","tag-russia","tag-senan-molony","tag-sinn-fein","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70155","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=70155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}