{"id":260215,"date":"2026-01-23T18:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/260215\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:24:07","slug":"catherine-connolly-resumes-engagements-after-pause-due-to-husband-falling-ill-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/260215\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Connolly resumes engagements after pause due to husband falling ill \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/catherine-connolly\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/catherine-connolly\">Catherine Connolly<\/a> is to resume engagements on Friday evening after her husband, Brian McEnery, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/politics\/2026\/01\/21\/address-by-president-catherine-connolly-cancelled-after-husband-falls-ill\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/politics\/2026\/01\/21\/address-by-president-catherine-connolly-cancelled-after-husband-falls-ill\/\">took ill<\/a> at an event earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An address due to be delivered by the President to ambassadors and consular representatives at \u00c1ras an Uachtar\u00e1in on Wednesday was cancelled after Mr McEnery began to feel unwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ms Connolly and her husband were nearing the end of a receiving line of the diplomats at the time. The address, which was due to be delivered after, was instead circulated to attendees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two engagements scheduled to take place in Galway on Thursday were subsequently cancelled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">However, it is understood the President will be resuming engagements on Friday evening, when she will officially launch Scoil Gheimhridh Joe Steve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/politics\/2025\/10\/23\/who-will-be-irelands-first-gentleman-the-men-behind-the-women-running-for-the-aras\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Who will be Ireland\u2019s \u2018first gentleman\u2019? The man behind Catherine ConnollyOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The annual poetry festival in the Cois Fharraige area of Connemara commemorates and shares the work of Joe Steve \u00d3 Neachtain, who died in January 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Saturday, the President is due to attend the opening of the new Clan Stand at Dexcom Stadium in Galway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Catherine Connolly is to resume engagements on Friday evening after her husband, Brian McEnery, took ill at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3656,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-260215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260215","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=260215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}