{"id":56055,"date":"2018-03-30T02:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T02:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56055"},"modified":"2018-03-30T02:01:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T02:01:07","slug":"kevin-sharkey-wants-to-become-irelands-first-black-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56055","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Sharkey wants to become Ireland\u2019s first black president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2018\/03\/26\/news\/politics\/kevin-sharkey-irish-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Kevin Sharkey wants to become Ireland\u2019s first black president<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Extra.ie<\/a><br \/>\n2018-03-26<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/author\/alison-oreilly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Alison O&#8217;Reilly<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>DMG Media Ireland<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2018\/03\/26\/news\/politics\/kevin-sharkey-irish-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.extra.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26092933\/Kevin-Sharkey-Irish-President-Aras-An-Uachtarainn.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artist and former <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raidi\u00f3_Teilif\u00eds_\u00c9ireann\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RT\u00c9<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kevin_Sharkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin Sharkey<\/a> has laid out his stall for his presidential election bid as he hopes to be <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ireland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ireland\u2019s<\/a> first black president.<\/p>\n<p>Sharkey, 56, who in recent years fell on hard times and was homeless for a period, said he intends to speak to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/County_council#Ireland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">county councils<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teachta_D\u00e1la\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TDs<\/a> across the country in the coming months to seek their support for his nomination.<\/p>\n<p>The painter recently revealed he would like to be an independent candidate in the next general election, but he is also assembling a team to help him get nominated to run for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/\u00c1ras_an_Uachtar\u00e1in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00e1ras<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2018\/03\/26\/news\/politics\/kevin-sharkey-irish-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist and former RT\u00c9 star Kevin Sharkey has laid out his stall for his presidential election bid as he hopes to be Ireland\u2019s first black president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,8,26],"tags":[28270,28272,246,28271],"class_list":["post-56055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-politics","tag-alison-oreilly","tag-extra-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kevin-sharkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56057,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56055\/revisions\/56057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}