{"id":167876,"date":"2025-09-30T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T07:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/did-the-irish-government-block-people-from-running-for-president\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T07:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T07:49:00","slug":"did-the-irish-government-block-people-from-running-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/did-the-irish-government-block-people-from-running-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the Irish government block people from running for president?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claims are circulating online that the Irish government has the power to stop people they disagree with from running for the country&#8217;s highest office, as Ireland prepares for its presidential election in late October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/09\/30\/did-the-irish-government-block-people-from-running-for-president\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claims are circulating online that the Irish government has the power to stop people they disagree with from running for the country&#8217;s highest office, as Ireland prepares for its presidential election in late October. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":167877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}