{"id":295019,"date":"2026-02-12T23:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295019\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:15:25","slug":"copper-face-jacks-turns-30-i-met-him-had-a-dance-and-a-shift-i-went-back-the-next-night-saw-him-and-thought-hes-in-coppers-two-nights-in-a-row-its-meant-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295019\/","title":{"rendered":"Copper Face Jacks turns 30: &#8216;I met him, had a dance and a shift. I went back the next night, saw him, and thought, \u2018he\u2019s in Coppers two nights in a row \u2013 it\u2019s meant to be!&#8217;"},"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\">\nWith the iconic Dublin nightclub celebrating its 30th birthday, we look at its role in cultural moments and hear from some \u2018Coppers couples\u2019 about finding love on the dancefloor\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;It\u2019s a place that holds special space in so many of our cultural moments, like Dublin captain Bryan Cullen\u2019s infamous victory rally cry of \u201cSee yiz in Coppers\u201d in 2011.&quot; Graphic: Clare Meredith.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770938125_582_18d3342b-268b-4eea-bd30-3e3645436012.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)\">&#8220;It\u2019s a place that holds special space in so many of our cultural moments, like Dublin captain Bryan Cullen\u2019s infamous victory rally cry of \u201cSee yiz in Coppers\u201d in 2011.&#8221; Graphic: Clare Meredith.<\/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)\">When it came to designing invitations to their wedding, Lauren and Colin MacDonnell knew exactly what they wanted.<\/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)\">\u201cI got an illustrator to draw the two of us outside Coppers,\u201d grins Lauren. \u201cI even mentioned it in my wedding speech. I said, \u2018I went to Coppers every weekend religiously for 10 years and I found a doctor\u2019,\u201d she laughs. \u201cIf you want to find the love of your life, you need to go to Coppers!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the iconic Dublin nightclub celebrating its 30th birthday, we look at its role in cultural moments and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6361],"class_list":["post-295019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295019","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=295019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}