{"id":99228,"date":"2025-10-23T12:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/99228\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:34:07","slug":"bob-geldof-says-he-would-have-walked-presidential-race-had-he-run-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/99228\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Geldof says he would have \u2018walked\u2019 presidential race had he run \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Geldof says he would have \u2018walked\u2019 presidential race had he run \u2013 The Irish TimesLatest polls favour Catherine Connolly ahead of presidential election tomorrow<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Bob Geldof and Pete Briquette of The Boomtown Rats unveil a plaque to mark the band&#x2019;s first ever concert on October 31st, 1975, at what is now TU Dublin, at Bolton Street, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac D&#xF3;naill\" class=\"c-image b-it-lead-art__btn-full-screen-open\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/QJYLLIFZHJEB3OPFN7BWB5IMGQ.jpg\"   width=\"1024\" height=\"715\"\/>Bob Geldof and Pete Briquette of The Boomtown Rats unveil a plaque to mark the band\u2019s first ever concert on October 31st, 1975, at what is now TU Dublin, at Bolton Street, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac D\u00f3naill <img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Sarah Burns's picture \" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/arc-authors\/irishtimes\/68beaffc-e215-471c-8432-9c9fdf43a54b.png\"   width=\"118\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bob Geldof says he would have \u2018walked\u2019 presidential race had he run \u2013 The Irish TimesLatest polls favour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3656,93,895,3775,2044,61,60,1843,978],"class_list":["post-99228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-entertainment","tag-fianna-fail","tag-fine-gael","tag-heather-humphreys","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-micheal-martin","tag-presidential-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99228","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=99228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}