{"id":18175,"date":"2026-06-04T14:47:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/?p=18175"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:47:38","slug":"social-democrats-leader-holly-cairns-td-expecting-her-second-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/social-democrats-leader-holly-cairns-td-expecting-her-second-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns TD expecting her second child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democrats party leader Holly Cairns has announced that she is expecting her second child.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Cairns said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so happy to announce that we are expecting our second child. Barry and I are so excited and feel extremely lucky to be able to raise our family in West Cork.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have always said that having a family should not be disqualifying for a political party leader and I am very grateful to have the support of our parliamentary party and my constituents in Cork South-West.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur deputy leader, Cian O\u2019Callaghan, will step into the role of acting leader in October for the duration of my maternity leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>June 4, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democrats party leader Holly Cairns has announced that she is expecting her second child. Deputy Cairns said: \u201cI am so happy to announce that we are expecting our second child. Barry and I are so excited and feel extremely lucky to be able to raise our family in West Cork. \u201cI have always said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[400,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holly-cairns","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns TD expecting her second child - Social Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/social-democrats-leader-holly-cairns-td-expecting-her-second-child\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns TD expecting her second child - Social Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Social Democrats party leader Holly Cairns has announced that she is expecting her second child. 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