{"id":146250,"date":"2025-11-18T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/146250\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:05:10","slug":"how-opening-up-to-the-public-saved-this-kildare-farm-after-it-almost-burned-to-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/146250\/","title":{"rendered":"How opening up to the public saved this Kildare farm after it almost burned to the ground"},"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\">The extended Dunne family had 5,000 turkeys as well as cattle and sheep but had to start again after the 2006 blaze. They explain how a small operation with a few regular farm animals expanded into an exotic zoo, and how they all are able to work together\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mark Finn feeds the lemurs on Clonfert Farm, in Maynooth, Co Kildare. Photos: Damien Eagers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ert Farm Kildare 23.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)\">Mark Finn feeds the lemurs on Clonfert Farm, in Maynooth, Co Kildare. Photos: Damien Eagers<\/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)\">When their family farm caught fire in a freak accident in 2006, Aoife McTernan and her family were left starting from scratch.<\/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)\">The farm in Maynooth, Kildare, which almost burned to the ground, had been home to 5,000 turkeys as well as cattle and sheep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The extended Dunne family had 5,000 turkeys as well as cattle and sheep but had to start again&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,83482],"class_list":["post-146250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tamara-fitzpatrick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146250","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=146250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}