{"id":1656,"date":"2014-03-14T14:27:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T14:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2014-03-14T14:27:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T14:27:01","slug":"crowe-saddened-at-news-of-tony-benns-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-saddened-at-news-of-tony-benns-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe Saddened At News of Tony Benn\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has expressed his sadness and regret at the death of the veteran British Labour politician, Tony Benn.<\/p>\n<p>Benn, who was an MP for more than 50 years, passed away this morning aged 88.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI was extremely saddened to hear that Tony Benn passed away this morning. I would like to pass my condolences to Tony\u2019s family and close friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTony Benn was a good friend of Ireland and throughout his lifetime, during good and difficult times, he continually voiced support for the cause of Irish unity and independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe took the side of the poor, the dispossessed and marginalised in Britain and throughout the world. His record of internationalism and solidarity\u00a0stand in mark contrast to many of his peers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had a passion and a lifelong commitment to politics and he was motivated and excited by ideas and action. He saw himself very much as a republican, a socialist, and an internationalist in the true sense of its meaning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His view of politics, the rights of men and women, his vision of an inclusive and a different world, will continue to live on and undoubtedly inspire further generations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAr dheis D\u00e9 go raibh a anam.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has expressed his sadness and regret at the death of the veteran British Labour politician, Tony Benn. Benn, who was an MP for more than 50 years, passed away this morning aged 88. Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said: \u201cI was extremely saddened to hear that Tony Benn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}