{"id":290019,"date":"2026-02-10T06:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290019\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T06:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:20:09","slug":"meet-irelands-oldest-mcdonalds-worker-as-she-is-awarded-cork-person-of-the-month-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290019\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Ireland\u2019s oldest McDonald\u2019s worker as she is awarded Cork Person of the Month title"},"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\">Thelma Beltran (63) is recognised for her dedication to her work and winning way with so many customers of the Douglas outlet she works in\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pictured at the award presentation L\/R: Robert Bejanishvili, The Metropole Hotel; Chirantha Lollugamagl, McDonald\u2019s; Jim Ronayne, McDonald\u2019s; Clara O\u2018Mahoney, AM O\u2019Sullivan PR; Graham Kelly, McDonald\u2019s; George Duggan, Cork Crystal; Thelma Beltran, McDonald\u2019s and Cork Person of the Month; Ben Jayagody, McDonald\u2019s; and Manus O\u2019Callaghan, Awards Organiser. Picture: Vitaliy Makhnanov.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/RG corkpersonjan.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)\">Pictured at the award presentation L\/R: Robert Bejanishvili, The Metropole Hotel; Chirantha Lollugamagl, McDonald\u2019s; Jim Ronayne, McDonald\u2019s; Clara O\u2018Mahoney, AM O\u2019Sullivan PR; Graham Kelly, McDonald\u2019s; George Duggan, Cork Crystal; Thelma Beltran, McDonald\u2019s and Cork Person of the Month; Ben Jayagody, McDonald\u2019s; and Manus O\u2019Callaghan, Awards Organiser. Picture: Vitaliy Makhnanov.<\/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)\">A Cork worker, who has the title of Ireland\u2019s oldest McDonald\u2019s employee, has been named Cork Person of the Month for January.<\/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)\">63-year-old Thelma Beltran, originally from the Philippines but living in Cork for over 25 years, is Customer Experience Leader at McDonald&#8217;s Douglas and is also Ireland\u2019s oldest McDonald\u2019s worker, and was given the honour in recognition of her \u201cincredible longevity, kindness and positivity\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thelma Beltran (63) is recognised for her dedication to her work and winning way with so many customers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,1718,4856,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-290019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-kevin-galvin","11":"tag-mcdonalds","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290019","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=290019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}