{"id":2813,"date":"2023-11-11T22:38:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T22:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/peoples-patience-has-run-out-sinn-fein-leader-addresses-party\/"},"modified":"2023-11-11T22:38:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T22:38:05","slug":"peoples-patience-has-run-out-sinn-fein-leader-addresses-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/peoples-patience-has-run-out-sinn-fein-leader-addresses-party\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;People&#8217;s patience has run out&#8217; &#8211; Sinn F\u00e9in leader addresses party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mary Lou McDonald has addressed her party&#8217;s annual ard fheis (conference) in Athlone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinn F\u00e9in is the biggest party in Northern Ireland but has been frozen out of power at Stormont due to the collapse of the governing executive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But its popularity has grown in the Republic of Ireland where it aims for a place in government for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Senior party figures have said they are &#8220;on the countdown&#8221; to the country&#8217;s next general election, which is expected to take place late next year or early in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re on our marks for a General Election, Local and European Elections in June,&#8221; said Ms McDonald.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-67384917\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-politics-67393610?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Lou McDonald has addressed her party&#8217;s annual ard fheis (conference) in Athlone. Sinn F\u00e9in is the biggest party in Northern Ireland but has been frozen out of power at Stormont due to the collapse of the governing executive. But its popularity has grown in the Republic of Ireland where it aims for a place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2096,2034,2095,2097,2094,2093,114,2033],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-addresses","tag-fein","tag-leader","tag-party","tag-patience","tag-peoples","tag-run","tag-sinn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}