{"id":163344,"date":"2025-11-28T00:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/163344\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T00:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:08:09","slug":"an-post-irish-book-awards-the-late-manchan-magan-cecelia-ahern-and-andrew-porter-among-the-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/163344\/","title":{"rendered":"An Post Irish Book Awards: The late Manch\u00e1n Magan, Cecelia Ahern, and Andrew Porter among the winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former RT\u00c9 correspondent Tom McCaughren with Erika McGann and Shannon Bergan after winning for their children's book. Photo: David Conachy.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b09edd14-3101-4ee6-b38a-6ae46da4cd68.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)\">Former RT\u00c9 correspondent Tom McCaughren with Erika McGann and Shannon Bergan after winning for their children&#8217;s book. Photo: David Conachy.<\/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 late broadcaster and writer \u00adManch\u00e1n Magan, Irish rugby star Andrew Porter and author Cecelia Ahern were among the big winners at this year\u2019s An Post Irish Book Awards.<\/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 Eason Novel of the Year Award was won by Rois\u00edn O\u2019Donnell for her book Nesting, while Elaine Feeney won the Library Association of \u00adIreland Author of the Year Award at the event held in Dublin\u2019s Convention Centre last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former RT\u00c9 correspondent Tom McCaughren with Erika McGann and Shannon Bergan after winning for their children&#8217;s book. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18991,93,61,60,977,6085],"class_list":{"0":"post-163344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-an-post","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-michael-d-higgins","13":"tag-rte"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163344","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=163344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}