{"id":227809,"date":"2026-01-05T02:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227809\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T02:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:16:16","slug":"u2-at-croke-park-trump-at-doonbeg-and-ai-in-healthcare-our-experts-make-their-big-predictions-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227809\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 at Croke Park, Trump at Doonbeg and AI in healthcare: our experts make their big predictions for 2026"},"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\">\nWhat will we be wearing, watching, cheering on and raving about in the coming year? We asked our resident experts to make their best guesses\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"U2's last concert at Croke Part, in July 2017. Photo: Steve\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SN U2 at Croker.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)\">U2&#8217;s last concert at Croke Part, in July 2017. Photo: Steve<\/p>\n<p>Sunday Independent writers<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at 06:30<\/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)\">What will we be wearing, watching, cheering on and raving about in the coming year?<\/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)\">We asked the Sunday Independent\u2019s resident experts to give us their best predictions, including U2 making a triumphant return to Croke Park and the contenders for the next TV sensation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What will we be wearing, watching, cheering on and raving about in the coming year? We asked our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[8819,26016,2670,764,14486,969,116862,103,397,396,61,60,1421,312,18573,10366,116863,29093,1843,6083,774,5914,1394,3589,41816,5052,70,116864,660,2040,5936,16586],"class_list":{"0":"post-227809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-adrian-weckler","9":"tag-bono","10":"tag-chatgpt","11":"tag-croke-park","12":"tag-donal-odonovan","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-eoin-omalley","15":"tag-health","16":"tag-health-care","17":"tag-healthcare","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill","21":"tag-jessie-buckley","22":"tag-jim-ocallaghan","23":"tag-kneecap","24":"tag-leslie-ann-horgan","25":"tag-metrolink","26":"tag-micheal-martin","27":"tag-niamh-horan","28":"tag-paschal-donohoe","29":"tag-richard-curran","30":"tag-rory-mcilroy","31":"tag-russia","32":"tag-saoirse-hanley","33":"tag-saoirse-ronan","34":"tag-simon-harris","35":"tag-tommy-conlon","36":"tag-u2","37":"tag-ukraine","38":"tag-vladimir-putin","39":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227809","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=227809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}