{"id":157384,"date":"2025-09-24T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/157384\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:13:09","slug":"presidential-election-will-be-a-three-horse-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/157384\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential election will be a three horse race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.96fm.ie\/news\/96fm-news-and-sport\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All 96FM News &amp; Sport<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/686f82ce4fe53.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    via Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The deadline to submit nominations to get on the ballot has now closed. <\/p>\n<p>The three candidates &#8211; Jim Gavin, Heather Humphreys and Catherine Connolly &#8211; had signed off on their papers well before today&#8217;s 12pm deadline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maria Steen was the last hopeful left, and despite a late boost this morning, fell short at the final hurdle with just 18 of the 20 nominations needed.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s election will have the lowest number of candidates since 1990, and with the names now confirmed, we&#8217;ll head to the polls on the 24th of next month.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.96fm.ie\/on-air\/ways-to-listen\/?utm_source=96FM&amp;utm_medium=news+sport+article&amp;utm_campaign=app_download\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6655ea3d797f3.jpg\" style=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All 96FM News &amp; Sport via Getty The deadline to submit nominations to get on the ballot has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[71889,71893,71894,71892,759,71891,3004,101,71890,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-157384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-cork-96fm","tag-live-broadcast-available","tag-lorraine-and-ross","tag-news-and-information","tag-presenters","tag-programmes","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-the-word-on-96fm","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}