{"id":7075,"date":"2025-09-08T05:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/7075\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T05:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:05:20","slug":"presidential-election-jim-gavin-kept-out-of-spotlight-as-micheal-martin-to-put-pressure-on-undecideds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/7075\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential election: Jim Gavin kept out of spotlight, as Miche\u00e1l Martin to put pressure on undecideds"},"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\">\u200bBilly Kelleher vows to keep fighting for the party\u2019s nomination\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jim Gavin, former Dublin GAA football manager, has the backing of Miche\u00e1l Martin. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/d01db235-e23c-438e-ab23-6c0ff96faaae.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)\">Jim Gavin, former Dublin GAA football manager, has the backing of Miche\u00e1l Martin. Photo: PA<\/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)\">Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin is to put the squeeze on Fianna F\u00e1il backbenchers who have not said who they will back for the presidential nomination.<\/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)\">Ireland South MEP Billy Kelleher has vowed to fight on as the underdog for the party\u2019s nod, while leadership favourite Jim Gavin has been kept away from media engagements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200bBilly Kelleher vows to keep fighting for the party\u2019s nomination Jim Gavin, former Dublin GAA football manager, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2045,895,61,60,2043,1843,43,978,7732],"class_list":["post-7075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-billy-kelleher","tag-fianna-fail","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jim-gavin","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-presidential-election","tag-tabitha-monahan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075","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=7075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}