{"id":291695,"date":"2026-02-11T03:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291695\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T03:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:57:12","slug":"irelands-longest-serving-mcdonalds-worker-is-cork-person-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291695\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s longest serving McDonald&#8217;s worker is Cork Person of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">A customer experience leader at the McDonald\u2019s restaurant in Douglas, who is the company\u2019s oldest worker in Ireland, has been named Cork Person of the Month for January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Originally from the Philippines, Thelma Beltran arrived in Cork in 2001 and joined the Douglas team as a crew member. In the 25 years since, she has become a popular figure in the locality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Ms Beltran, 62, says she loves working and has no plans to retire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cI love my job,\u201d she said. \u201cBeing part of a great team, getting to know the people of Douglas, and helping make our customers\u2019 days that little bit special is really satisfying. I plan to keep working here as long as I\u2019m enjoying it, and hopefully that\u2019s for many more years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Awards organiser Manus O\u2019Callaghan said: \u201cThelma\u2019s commitment to putting smiles on people\u2019s faces and providing exceptional service is outstanding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cHer journey, leaving her home country to build a life here and embed herself so seamlessly in the local community, is inspiring. She\u2019s a really worthy winner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A customer experience leader at the McDonald\u2019s restaurant in Douglas, who is the company\u2019s oldest worker in Ireland,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,79,35813,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-291695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cork-news","10":"tag-cork-person-of-the-month","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291695","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=291695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}