{"id":72433,"date":"2025-10-10T20:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/72433\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T20:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:11:10","slug":"catherine-connolly-hits-out-at-ivan-yates-smear-campaign-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/72433\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Connolly hits out at Ivan Yates\u2019 \u2018smear campaign\u2019 remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>latest\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<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\">Heather Humphreys says she is \u2018not involved in any smear campaign\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Catherine Connolly was on the campaign trail in Co Tipperary on Friday, in the Elm Park Community Development and Family Resource Centre \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20379e47-c974-488c-b6f7-7d438151303f.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)\">Catherine Connolly was on the campaign trail in Co Tipperary on Friday, in the Elm Park Community Development and Family Resource Centre <\/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)\">Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly said she is \u201cabsolutely shocked\u2019 by comments from former minister Ivan Yates that suggested Fine Gael should \u201csmear the bejaysus out of her\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)\">Ms Connolly, who was canvassing with her team in Co Tipperary, said she was \u201cdoubly shocked\u201d when Mr Yates\u2019 comments on a podcast were played back to her on local radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"latest\u00a0|\u00a0 Heather Humphreys says she is \u2018not involved in any smear campaign\u2019 Catherine Connolly was on the campaign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3656,37898,3775,42,2044,6189,43,48241,3415,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-72433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-eoin-kelleher","tag-fine-gael","tag-headlines","tag-heather-humphreys","tag-labour-party","tag-news","tag-people-before-profit","tag-sinn-fein","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72433","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=72433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}