{"id":190534,"date":"2025-12-13T23:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/190534\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T23:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:57:11","slug":"theres-no-other-festival-in-the-country-where-you-can-arrive-on-your-own-boat-how-a-mayo-journalist-and-his-uncles-founded-roscommons-night-and-day-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/190534\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There\u2019s no other festival in the country where you can arrive on your own boat\u2019 &#8211; How a Mayo journalist and his uncles founded Roscommon\u2019s Night And Day Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pictured left to right are, Lisa Joy, Tourism Officer with Roscommon County Council, Liam Callaghan, Cathaoirleach of Roscommon County Council, Shane Tiernan, of CEO Roscommon County Council, Night And Day Festival co-founder Craig Hughes and Rohna McGrath, Arts Officer with Roscommon County Council\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/750d6840-3d10-4b9a-a3a3-ad0419c40e43.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)\">Pictured left to right are, Lisa Joy, Tourism Officer with Roscommon County Council, Liam Callaghan, Cathaoirleach of Roscommon County Council, Shane Tiernan, of CEO Roscommon County Council, Night And Day Festival co-founder Craig Hughes and Rohna McGrath, Arts Officer with Roscommon County Council<\/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)\">Mayo\u2019s own Craig Hughes is often asked if he would like to be full-time organising festivals like the Night and Day Festival, the one he co-founded with his uncles in 2022.<\/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)\">With a busy day job as political editor of the Irish Daily Mail, he\u2019s plenty to be at for the other 362 days of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pictured left to right are, Lisa Joy, Tourism Officer with Roscommon County Council, Liam Callaghan, Cathaoirleach of Roscommon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,94087],"class_list":{"0":"post-190534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-oisin-mcgovern"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190534","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=190534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}