{"id":227146,"date":"2026-01-04T16:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227146\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:45:09","slug":"niamh-kavanagh-eurovision-winner-vows-to-do-ni-proud-on-dancing-with-the-stars-after-tough-few-years-im-hoping-it-will-ignite-a-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227146\/","title":{"rendered":"Niamh Kavanagh: Eurovision winner vows to do NI proud on Dancing with the Stars after tough few years: \u2018I\u2019m hoping\u00a0it will ignite a passion\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Dublin-born singer on embracing challenges, her tough 2025, and why Carrickfergus is now \u2018home\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eurovision winner Niamh Kavanagh begins her bid for glory on Sunday night. Photo: Barry McCall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c5b1af5b-816d-47c5-8544-337c88019125.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)\">Eurovision winner Niamh Kavanagh begins her bid for glory on Sunday night. Photo: Barry McCall<\/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)\">Former Eurovision Song Contest winner Niamh Kavanagh has told how she wants to do Northern Ireland proud in the new series of Dancing with the Stars.<\/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)\">The Dublin-born singer, who has lived in Carrickfergus for the past 27 years, says she intends to make the most of the dance show experience and hopes it \u201creinvigorates\u201d her with a new passion for life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin-born singer on embracing challenges, her tough 2025, and why Carrickfergus is now \u2018home\u2019 Eurovision winner Niamh Kavanagh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[21183,93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-227146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-dancing-with-the-stars","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227146","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=227146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}