{"id":90108,"date":"2025-10-19T06:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/90108\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T06:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:32:08","slug":"heather-humphreys-in-blistering-attack-on-catherine-connollys-work-for-uk-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/90108\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Humphreys in blistering attack on Catherine Connolly\u2019s work for UK banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\">Fine Gael candidate hits out at rival\u2019s role in repossession cases as she enters final week of campaign trailing rival by 18pc in the polls\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heather Humphreys with Fine Gael TD Emer Currie yesterday. Photo: Tom Honan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8cf8ba13-8e2f-4e3a-b5c2-a9b4457d9430.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)\">Heather Humphreys with Fine Gael TD Emer Currie yesterday. Photo: Tom Honan<\/p>\n<p>Niamh Horan, C\u00f3nal Thomas and Eavan Murray<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/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 Heather \u00adHumphreys has issued a stinging attack on Catherine Connolly, saying that in contrast to her opponent, she \u201cnever tried to make money out of people\u2019s misfortune\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)\">Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Independent, Humphreys pointed to Connolly\u2019s past work as a barrister representing banks in repossessing homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fine Gael candidate hits out at rival\u2019s role in repossession cases as she enters final week of campaign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3656,24119,895,3775,42,2044,2043,43,6083,978,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-90108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-eavan-murray","tag-fianna-fail","tag-fine-gael","tag-headlines","tag-heather-humphreys","tag-jim-gavin","tag-news","tag-niamh-horan","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\/90108","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=90108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}