{"id":310499,"date":"2026-02-21T22:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/310499\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T22:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:07:20","slug":"customers-brave-the-elements-for-first-taste-of-new-mcdonalds-in-new-ross-next-it-will-be-penneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/310499\/","title":{"rendered":"Customers brave the elements for first taste of new McDonald\u2019s in New Ross \u2013 \u2018Next it will be Penneys\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\">Hurling star Lee Chin cuts the ribbon as families celebrate the \u20ac3m drive-thru development bringing fast\u2011food convenience closer to south Wexford\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Monique Carthy and family were at the opening of McDonald's in New Ross on Wednesday. Photo: Jim Campbell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2aa32053-ada8-4e6d-9dd3-18b28011189f.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)\">Monique Carthy and family were at the opening of McDonald&#8217;s in New Ross on Wednesday. Photo: Jim Campbell<\/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 downpour of rain and chilly temperatures didn\u2019t deter the hundreds of customers that flocked to the official opening of the latest McDonald\u2019s in Wexford on Wednesday with many waiting in the lengthy queues outside the \u20ac3m development. <\/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 levels of footfall on the opening day gave the new hires a baptism of fire, while some staff members onsite came from the McDonald\u2019s in Drinagh, Wexford, to assist with training and offer experienced hands to those still learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hurling star Lee Chin cuts the ribbon as families celebrate the \u20ac3m drive-thru development bringing fast\u2011food convenience closer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,7675],"class_list":["post-310499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jessica-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310499","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=310499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}