{"id":84127,"date":"2025-10-16T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84127\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:30:09","slug":"presidential-candidate-heather-humphreys-sued-for-defamation-by-td-paul-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84127\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential candidate Heather Humphreys sued for defamation by TD Paul Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fine Gael presidential candidate Heather Humphreys. Photo: Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0407476e-e190-40dd-9048-c1906d0de6ae.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)\">Fine Gael presidential candidate Heather Humphreys. Photo: Collins<\/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)\">People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy has initiated defamation proceedings against presidential election candidate Heather Humphreys.<\/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)\">The case relates to comments made by the former Fine Gael TD and minister during a presidential debate about Mr Murphy\u2019s role in an anti-water charges protest eleven years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0 Fine Gael presidential candidate Heather Humphreys. Photo: Collins People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy has initiated defamation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3775,2044,61,60,43,7118,9657],"class_list":{"0":"post-84127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-fine-gael","9":"tag-heather-humphreys","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-paul-murphy","14":"tag-shane-phelan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84127","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=84127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}