{"id":297967,"date":"2026-02-14T15:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/297967\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T15:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:42:09","slug":"i-thought-i-was-dreaming-tipperary-activist-chosen-as-new-york-st-patricks-day-grand-marshal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/297967\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I thought I was dreaming\u2019 \u2013 Tipperary activist chosen as New York St Patrick\u2019s Day Grand Marshal"},"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\">Volunteer, author and peace award organiser Martin Quinn will bridge the Atlantic this March after a surprise selection by the County Tipperary Association of New York\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Martin Quinn. Picture by Derek Fanning\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/30735521-4f0d-415c-abfe-ec096d88c3e4.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)\">Martin Quinn. Picture by Derek Fanning<\/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 prominent community activist from Co. Tipperary will be marking St Patrick\u2019s Day a bit differently this year having been selected for a special role in the festivities planned for New York City.<\/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)\">The County Tipperary N&amp;B Association of New York has selected Mr. Martin Quinn to be Grand Marshal at the NYC St Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade on Tuesday March 17 and Grand Marshal for the Yonkers Day Parade on Saturday March 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volunteer, author and peace award organiser Martin Quinn will bridge the Atlantic this March after a surprise selection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12212,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-297967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-edana-flynn","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297967","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=297967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}