{"id":220589,"date":"2025-12-31T21:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T21:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/220589\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T21:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T21:46:12","slug":"kerry-link-with-coventrys-irish-diaspora-emigrants-in-britain-deserve-more-from-irish-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/220589\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry link with Coventry\u2019s Irish diaspora \u2013 \u2018Emigrants in Britain deserve more from Irish government\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Simon McCarthy, CEO of Coventry Irish Centre.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3f396276-a03d-4d5e-b10d-19218f3982fe.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)\">Simon McCarthy, CEO of Coventry Irish Centre.<\/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 Simon McCarthy visits Kenmare in County Kerry it immediately feels like home. As the CEO of the Coventry Irish Society, his love of Ireland is born out of emigration and being raised in a household wedded to preserving Irish identity in the UK\u2019s vast multicultural matrix of nations.<\/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)\">Children of Irish emigrants are in no way precluded from feeling at one with their ancestral home. If anything, they are more inclined to feel prouder and at one with the home of their parents and those from the extended family tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simon McCarthy, CEO of Coventry Irish Centre. When Simon McCarthy visits Kenmare in County Kerry it immediately feels&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,16585,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-220589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-stephen-fernane","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220589","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=220589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}