{"id":241,"date":"2011-02-18T17:11:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T17:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/sinn-fein-to-lodge-complaint-with-press-ombudsman-over-brian-hayes-comments\/"},"modified":"2011-02-18T17:11:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T17:11:21","slug":"sinn-fein-to-lodge-complaint-with-press-ombudsman-over-brian-hayes-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/sinn-fein-to-lodge-complaint-with-press-ombudsman-over-brian-hayes-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in to lodge complaint with Press Ombudsman over Brian Hayes\u2019 comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in Dublin South West Candidate Se\u00e1n Crowe has confirmed that  his party is making a formal complaint to the Press Ombudsman, to the  Fine Gael Party and to RT\u00c9 over comments made by Brian Hayes\u2019 on  Wednesday night\u2019s Late Debate programme in which he tried to introduce  racism as an issue in the election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking today Councillor Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe  outrageous comments by Brian Hayes on RT\u00c9 Radio on Wednesday night were  an attempt to bring racism to this election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese  comments by Deputy Hayes are a new low in electoral attacks and Sinn  F\u00e9in is currently in the process of making an official complaint to the  Press Ombudsman, to the Fine Gael Party and to RT\u00c9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe killing  of Toyosi Shitabbey in Dublin last year highlights the very real and  growing threat posed by racism in Ireland. Brian Hayes should know  better than playing politics with this issue.\u201d ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in Dublin South West Candidate Se\u00e1n Crowe has confirmed that his party is making a formal complaint to the Press Ombudsman, to the Fine Gael Party and to RT\u00c9 over comments made by Brian Hayes\u2019 on Wednesday night\u2019s Late Debate programme in which he tried to introduce racism as an issue in the election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","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=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}