{"id":105081,"date":"2025-10-26T14:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/105081\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T14:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:05:12","slug":"cathy-belton-you-work-you-put-yourself-into-it-it-gives-you-a-little-break-from-the-waves-of-despair-and-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/105081\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathy Belton: \u2018You work, you put yourself into it. It gives you a little break from the waves of despair and shock\u2019"},"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\">\nThe \u2018Hidden Assets\u2019 star on the very recent loss of her mother\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cathy Belton returns to our tellies. Photo: Barry McCall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SF Belkin 75407.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)\">Cathy Belton returns to our tellies. Photo: Barry McCall<\/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)\">Cathy Belton is already \u00adwaiting when I arrive at the Dublin hotel where we\u2019ve  planned to meet. She lives nearby with her husband Brian. They \u00adtravelled back from Galway the night \u00adbefore, where they had been to Cathy\u2019s childhood home for the weekend.<\/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)\">They had been attending the 79th birthday of Cathy\u2019s beloved mother Anna, who died suddenly and unexpectedly a few weeks earlier. Anna, Cathy tells me, had been full of energy, living with her grandson and regularly travelling to Dublin to see her daughters, Cathy and Orina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u2018Hidden Assets\u2019 star on the very recent loss of her mother Cathy Belton returns to our tellies.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,56007,6992],"class_list":["post-105081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liadan-hynes","tag-people-culture-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105081","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=105081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}