{"id":73948,"date":"2025-10-11T13:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/73948\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:57:11","slug":"indo-politics-taoiseachs-great-escape-presidential-road-race-and-six-euro-cappuccinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/73948\/","title":{"rendered":"Indo Politics: Taoiseach\u2019s great escape, presidential road race and six-euro cappuccinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture date: Wednesday October 8, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit: Niall Carson\/PA Wire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IRISH Rama (2).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)\">Picture date: Wednesday October 8, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit: Niall Carson\/PA Wire<\/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)\">Welcome to Indo Politics from The Indo Daily. It\u2019s your weekly recap and preview as polling day approaches in the race for the \u00c1ras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">After a week dominated by Jim Gavin\u2019s exit from the presidential election race, we dissect the reactions to Miche\u00e1l Martin&#8217;s apology, the leadership debates within Fianna F\u00e1il and the impact of recent political events on the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Also, as Heather Humphreys and Catherine Connolly criss-cross the country canvassing for votes, we review their strategies, debate performances and public reception to their campaigns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Oh, and there was one \u201cbig, big budget\u201d \u2013 but did it excite the mass population?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Join Tabitha Monahan and C\u00f3nal Thomas from the Irish Independent\u2019s political team, as they review the week\u2019s biggest political stories in the country and preview the penultimate week in the race for the \u00c1ras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture date: Wednesday October 8, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit: Niall Carson\/PA Wire Welcome to Indo Politics from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-73948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73948","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=73948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}