{"id":96495,"date":"2025-10-22T07:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/96495\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T07:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:35:09","slug":"irish-presidential-election-catherine-connolly-objected-to-major-galway-projects-including-the-bypass-new-school-campus-private-hospital-and-new-gaa-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/96495\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish presidential election: Catherine Connolly objected to major Galway projects including the bypass, new school campus, private hospital and new GAA ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Irish presidential independent candidate Catherine Connolly arrives to take part in the final debate of the Irish presidential election campaign at the RTE studios in Donnybrook, Dublin.  Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IRISH Pre (46).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)\">Irish presidential independent candidate Catherine Connolly arrives to take part in the final debate of the Irish presidential election campaign at the RTE studios in Donnybrook, Dublin.  Photo: PA<\/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)\">On the last day of the Oireachtas term, Catherine Connolly bemoaned the lack of infrastructure in her native Galway.<\/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)\">\u201cThis is a major obstacle to development,\u201d she said in the chamber to \u00adT\u00e1naiste Simon Harris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish presidential independent candidate Catherine Connolly arrives to take part in the final debate of the Irish presidential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3656,24119,42,6189,43,978,70,3583,40,38,41,39,5761],"class_list":["post-96495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-eavan-murray","tag-headlines","tag-labour-party","tag-news","tag-presidential-election","tag-simon-harris","tag-stephen-donnelly","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-university-of-galway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96495","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=96495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}