{"id":106639,"date":"2025-10-27T13:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/106639\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:09:10","slug":"julian-simmons-talks-burials-bombs-and-being-joined-at-the-hip-with-rev-ian-paisley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/106639\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Simmons talks burials, bombs and being \u2018joined at the hip\u2019 with Rev Ian Paisley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761570550_118_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Watch: Julian Simmons talks burials, bombs and being \u201cjoined at the hip\u201d with Revd Ian Paisley<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">From newsreading to continuity presentation ahead of beloved soap operas, Julian Simmons captured the attention and hearts of Northern Ireland, becoming as much a staple of UTV as the station\u2019s logo itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">And between on-air mishaps and unlikely friendships, the broadcaster\u2019s almost 30-year career has been anything but dull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch: Julian Simmons talks burials, bombs and being \u201cjoined at the hip\u201d with Revd Ian Paisley From newsreading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[65455,4501,321,93,61,60,41936,9388],"class_list":["post-106639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-abdullah-sabri","tag-belfast","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-the-troubles","tag-utv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106639","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=106639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}