{"id":2316,"date":"2017-04-05T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2017-04-05T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T10:02:00","slug":"a-conversation-with-stephen-donnelly-td-162-apr-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/a-conversation-with-stephen-donnelly-td-162-apr-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"A conversation with Stephen Donnelly TD (162, Apr 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are as many reasons why someone decides to become a public representative as there are men and women in Leinster House. Before 2011, <a href=\"http:\/\/stephendonnelly.ie\">Stephen Donnelly<\/a><br class=\"gmail_msg\" \/>worked as a project manager and consultant for companies like Transport for London and McKinsey and Company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/StephenDonnelly-APP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2317\" src=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/StephenDonnelly-APP.jpg\" alt=\"StephenDonnelly-APP\" width=\"504\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/StephenDonnelly-APP.jpg 504w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/StephenDonnelly-APP-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/StephenDonnelly-APP-442x300.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><br class=\"gmail_msg\" \/><br class=\"gmail_msg\" \/>That year, he decided to stand for election to Dail Eireann and was elected as an independent first-time TD for Wicklow. Five years later, he was re-elected, this time<br class=\"gmail_msg\" \/>as a founding member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/socialdemocrats.ie\">Social Democracts<\/a>, the party he subsequently left. A year on from that election, Donnelly has joined <a href=\"http:\/\/fiannafail.ie\">Fianna F\u00e1il <\/a>and is now the party\u2019s<br class=\"gmail_msg\" \/>spokesperson on Brexit.<br class=\"gmail_msg\" \/><br class=\"gmail_msg\" \/>Deputy Donnelly joins us at Banter to talk about why he got involved in politics in the first place, the lessons he learned during that first spell in D\u00e1il Eireann,\u00a0his time with the Social Democrats, the move to Fianna F\u00e1il and what comes next for a man who is most definitely no longer an accidental politician.<br class=\"gmail_msg\" \/><br class=\"gmail_msg\" \/>Banter\u2019s conversation with Stephen Donnelly TD takes place at Wigwam (Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1), on Thursday April 27. Doors open at 6pm\u00a0and the interview, followed by an audience Q&amp;A, starts at 6.30pm. Tickets can be booked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ie\/e\/banter-in-conversation-with-stephen-donnelly-tickets-33430854586\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are as many reasons why someone decides to become a public representative as there are men and women in Leinster House. Before 2011, Stephen Donnellyworked as a project manager and consultant for companies like Transport for London and McKinsey and Company. That year, he decided to stand for election to Dail Eireann and was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/a-conversation-with-stephen-donnelly-td-162-apr-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A conversation with Stephen Donnelly TD (162, Apr 2017)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}