{"id":282278,"date":"2026-02-05T14:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282278\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:56:11","slug":"ritchie-remo-im-probably-the-only-country-singer-from-a-protestant-unionist-background-so-its-a-bit-different-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282278\/","title":{"rendered":"Ritchie Remo: \u2018I\u2019m probably the only country singer from a Protestant, unionist background\u2026\u00a0so it\u2019s a bit different for me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">In our Meaning of Life series, musician Ritchie Remo speaks to \u00c1ine Toner about family and finding your own beat\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ritchie Remo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ddd4108a-d656-479f-9540-cc8a7fe7a1ed.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ritchie Remo<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For more than 30 years, Ritchie Remo has had music in his life. In fact, he can\u2019t imagine a world in which he\u2019s not performing or songwriting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Claudy man explains: \u201cI suppose the big thing with me is, I\u2019m from the Protestant and unionist background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In our Meaning of Life series, musician Ritchie Remo speaks to \u00c1ine Toner about family and finding your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[56317,4501,321,17201,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-282278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-aine-toner","9":"tag-belfast","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-derry-news","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282278","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=282278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}