{"id":299033,"date":"2026-02-15T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299033\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T07:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:50:08","slug":"laura-woods-i-have-financial-responsibilities-like-everyone-else-suddenly-youre-working-full-time-and-then-youre-told-that-your-services-are-no-longer-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299033\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Woods: \u2018I have financial responsibilities like everyone else. Suddenly you\u2019re working full-time and then you\u2019re told that your services are no longer required\u2019"},"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\">\nAs she returns to full-time radio presenting, the broadcaster on being made redundant, and juggling work and children\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Laura Woods at The Mayson hotel in Dublin. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SF Laura Woods 11.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)\">Laura Woods at The Mayson hotel in Dublin. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/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)\">Laura Woods had already been planning to start looking for a new job when she was offered the chance to helm Dublin Q102\u2019s new afternoon show, The Home Stretch.<\/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\u2019d intended to return to a full-time role at the end of the summer,\u201d she says with a smile. But the unexpected offer brought that timeline forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As she returns to full-time radio presenting, the broadcaster on being made redundant, and juggling work and children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,56007,6992,6085,3476],"class_list":["post-299033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liadan-hynes","tag-people-culture-magazine","tag-rte","tag-virgin-media-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299033","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=299033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}