{"id":104531,"date":"2025-10-26T05:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/104531\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T05:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:45:09","slug":"meet-catherine-connollys-clan-irelands-new-first-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/104531\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Catherine Connolly\u2019s clan \u2013 Ireland\u2019s new first family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Galwegians are bringing a wide range of interests to \u00c1ras \u2014 from boats and keepie-uppies to rollerblading\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Catherine Connolly with her sons Stephen (left) and Brian Thomas, after her election as Mayor of Galway in June 2004\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lly file pics 2 (2).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Catherine Connolly with her sons Stephen (left) and Brian Thomas, after her election as Mayor of Galway in June 2004<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Will Catherine Connolly (68) be the first President of Ireland to be found rollerblading around the \u00c1ras? <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One thing is certain; she won\u2019t be \u00adinstalling a giant TV in her new home in the Phoenix Park, or be found sitting back watching episodes of The West Wing. The Galwegian has specific tastes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galwegians are bringing a wide range of interests to \u00c1ras \u2014 from boats and keepie-uppies to rollerblading Catherine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3656,61,60,43288,977,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-104531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-catherine-connolly","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-liam-collins","12":"tag-michael-d-higgins","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}