{"id":7643,"date":"2025-09-08T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/7643\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:17:08","slug":"sinn-fein-leader-mary-lou-mcdonald-rules-herself-out-of-aras-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/7643\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in leader Mary Lou McDonald rules herself out of \u00c1ras race"},"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\">\u2018Some encouraged me, others said stay the course [as Sinn F\u00e9in president]\u2019 \u2013 Mary Lou McDonald Sinn F\u00e9in leader still does not definitively say if party will have their own candidate \u2013 or if they will back Catherine Connolly Fine Gael\u2019s Heather Humphreys to kickstart her campaign next week Fianna F\u00e1il to vote for their presidential candidate tomorrow<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"8\/1: Mary Lou McDonald\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/b625f523-255f-45e1-aed0-ab98de257f04.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)\">8\/1: Mary Lou McDonald<\/p>\n<p>Keith Kelly and Senan Molony<\/p>\n<p>Today at 09:22<\/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)\">Sinn F\u00e9in leader Mary Lou McDonald will not be putting her name forward for the upcoming presidential election. <\/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)\">Speaking this morning, Ms McDonald said she did consider running for the \u00c1ras but believes she is best placed \u201cholding this Government to account on a daily basis\u201d in the D\u00e1il. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 \u2018Some encouraged me, others said stay the course [as Sinn F\u00e9in president]\u2019 \u2013 Mary Lou McDonald Sinn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-7643","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\/7643","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=7643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}