{"id":274396,"date":"2026-01-31T22:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/274396\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T22:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:04:16","slug":"cardinals-were-proud-to-be-from-here-but-we-dont-want-to-be-defined-as-a-cork-band-or-an-irish-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/274396\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals: \u2018We\u2019re proud to be from here but we don\u2019t want to be defined as a Cork band\u2026 or an Irish band\u2019"},"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\">\nThe band\u2019s brothers Euan and Finn Manning on being labelled the \u2018Drunken Smiths\u2019 and the \u2018Sober Pogues\u2019 in the British press, making their debut album \u2018Masquerade\u2019 and \u2013 while they love Kneecap and Fontaines DC \u2013 why they don\u2019t see themselves as part of a \u2018green wave\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cardinals at Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork city. From left, Oskar Gudinovic, Finn Manning, Euan Manning, Darragh Manning, Aaron Hurley. Photo: Daragh Mc Sweeney\/Provision\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/264533fe-33b0-4776-98ac-3d9259de79e9.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)\">Cardinals at Saint Fin Barre&#8217;s Cathedral, Cork city. From left, Oskar Gudinovic, Finn Manning, Euan Manning, Darragh Manning, Aaron Hurley. Photo: Daragh Mc Sweeney\/Provision<\/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)\">Rolling Stone may not carry the sort of weight it once did, but when rock\u2019s most celebrated magazine raves about up your fledgling band, the industry takes notice.<\/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)\">\u201cMeet Cardinals,\u201d the headline went. \u201cThe next great guitar band to emerge from Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The band\u2019s brothers Euan and Finn Manning on being labelled the \u2018Drunken Smiths\u2019 and the \u2018Sober Pogues\u2019 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,280,10366,279],"class_list":{"0":"post-274396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-john-meagher","12":"tag-kneecap","13":"tag-review-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274396","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=274396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}