{"id":294036,"date":"2026-02-12T10:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294036\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:41:09","slug":"midlands-counties-among-most-superstitious-regions-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294036\/","title":{"rendered":"Midlands Counties Among Most Superstitious Regions In Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Thursday, 12 February 2026 09:53\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/698da2683421c.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Westmeath and Offaly are seen as superstitious areas of Ireland.\n        <\/p>\n<p>People in the Midlands are considered among the most superstitious in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Research conducted by analysts at Casino.org, calculated findings through a nationwide poll of over 1,000 participants, Google search trend analysis of traditional Irish superstitions and assessment of folklore themed festivals.<\/p>\n<p>It found that Westmeath is ranked the highest county in the midlands and seventh nationally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Offaly are in ninth, while Laois is the second least superstitious across the nation, just ahead of Tipperary.<\/p>\n<p>Kilkenny has been named as the superstition capital.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 12 February 2026 09:53 Westmeath and Offaly are seen as superstitious areas of Ireland. People in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":{"0":"post-294036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-broadcast","9":"tag-broadcasting","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-irish-news","13":"tag-laois","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-local-radio","16":"tag-midlands","17":"tag-midlands-103","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-offaly","20":"tag-radio","21":"tag-westmeath"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294036","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=294036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}