{"id":83544,"date":"2025-10-16T03:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/83544\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:50:09","slug":"heather-humphreys-confirms-she-attended-an-event-which-is-being-investigated-by-gardai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/83544\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Humphreys confirms she attended an event which is being investigated by garda\u00ed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fine Gael presidential candidate Heather Humphreys<\/a> has confirmed that an event she attended earlier this year is being investigated by garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n

There is no suggestion of wrongdoing on the part of Ms Humphreys or any attendees.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed are investigating allegations about the event’s disbursement of funds to nominated charities.<\/p>\n

Speaking at her former school in Cootehill, Ms Humphreys confirmed she had been at the event.<\/p>\n

“I attended an event in Monaghan. It was a charity event, and I attended that event along with many others, and there was concern that perhaps that the money that we had contributed to that event may have been defrauded.<\/p>\n

“And of course there is an investigation by the garda\u00ed, but I just want to say that the garda\u00ed have very, very clearly stated that there was absolutely no wrongdoing on behalf of anybody that attended that event.<\/p>\n

“We all attended it and we contributed to it in good faith. So it is subject to a garda investigation, and I really don’t want to say much more.”<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Ms Humphreys told the Irish Examiner her chosen charities to benefit from the event were Northeast Down Syndrome; Crocus and SOSAD.<\/p>\n

\u201cHeather participated in this event and nominated the charities in good faith and expected that the organisers would fulfil their duties appropriately,” they added.<\/p>\n

The Irish Examiner understands that Ms Humphreys was contacted by the Garda\u00ed as a witness during the summer months.<\/p>\n

It is understood that the only relationship she had with the group in question was that she was a local TD in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fine Gael presidential candidate Heather Humphreys has confirmed that an event she attended earlier this year is being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7782,42,43,978,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-83544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-gardai","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-presidential-election","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83544","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=83544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}