{"id":234376,"date":"2026-01-08T15:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/234376\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:04:11","slug":"twin-donkeys-born-in-wicklow-have-become-mini-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/234376\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin donkeys born in Wicklow have become mini-celebrities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Two Johnnies have become mini-celebrities ever since word of their \u2018miracle\u2019 birth spread.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/128732be-0abf-4d8d-bd1e-56f94d0f5e4f.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)\">The Two Johnnies have become mini-celebrities ever since word of their \u2018miracle\u2019 birth spread.<\/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)\">Twin donkeys born on a Wicklow farm in Baltinglass in early-November have become \u2018mini-celebrities\u2019 since word of their \u2018miracle\u2019 birth spread nationwide.<\/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 exceptionally rare donkey twins, which are know as \u2018twonkeys\u2019, were christened \u2018The Two Johnnies\u2019 by owners Mary and Tom Dalton, in recognition of the Tipperary comedy duo of Jonathon McMahon and John O\u2019Brien known as \u2018The 2 Johnnies\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Two Johnnies have become mini-celebrities ever since word of their \u2018miracle\u2019 birth spread. Twin donkeys born on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,4657],"class_list":["post-234376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-myles-buchanan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234376","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=234376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}