{"id":246810,"date":"2026-01-15T22:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/246810\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:21:09","slug":"magnificent-sculpture-unveiled-in-longfords-st-mels-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/246810\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnificent sculpture unveiled in Longford&#8217;s St Mel&#8217;s Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Emeritus Colm O&#8217;Reilly unveiled a magnificent sculpture by renowned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longfordleader.ie\/news\/arts---entertainment\/1988749\/three-longford-organisations-have-been-awarded-arts-council-funding.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">art<\/a>ist Ken Thompson which features St Ciar\u00e1n of Clonmacnois on the feast of the Epiphany, Tuesday, January 6, 2026 in St Mel&#8217;s Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.longfordleader.ie\/news\/arts---entertainment\/1989278\/longford-new-writing-wants-your-original-works-for-our-newspaper-and-online.html\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Longford New Writing wants your original works for our newspaper and online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The statue of St Ciaran was destroyed in the 2009 Christmas Day fire, so now it&#8217;s back in a different, beautiful form.<\/p>\n<p>Myth has it that a fox used to follow St Ciar\u00e1n and that explains the fox. The fish represents the river Shannon. Also included is the famous round tower and a tree of roses, the lines surrounding the piece are taken from &#8211; &#8216;The Dead at Clonmacnois&#8217; by Thomas William Rolleston.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bishop Emeritus Colm O&#8217;Reilly unveiled a magnificent sculpture by renowned artist Ken Thompson which features St Ciar\u00e1n of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,3181,81615,124116],"class_list":["post-246810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-longford","tag-longford-town","tag-st-mels-cathedral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246810","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=246810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}