{"id":333131,"date":"2026-03-07T03:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/333131\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:37:21","slug":"shes-a-great-human-four-well-known-irish-women-on-the-role-model-who-inspired-them-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/333131\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018She\u2019s a great human\u2019 \u2013 four well-known Irish women on the role model who inspired them most"},"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\">\nThe theme of International Women\u2019s Day on March 8 is \u2018Give To Gain\u2019 \u2028\u2013 to encourage a mindset of generosity and collaboration. Here, four women who are leaders in their field talk about their special mentor\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'A great human': Beauty entrepreneur Aimee Connolly and her mum Clare\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Aimee Connolly (2).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)\">&#8216;A great human&#8217;: Beauty entrepreneur Aimee Connolly and her mum Clare<\/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)\">Rebecca Storm is a singer, currently playing Mrs Johnstone in \u2018Blood Brothers\u2019 at the Bord G\u00e1is Energy Theatre <\/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)\">Rebecca\u2019s inspiration: The late Maureen Grant (1925-2021), who ran the bar at the Olympia Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The theme of International Women\u2019s Day on March 8 is \u2018Give To Gain\u2019 \u2028\u2013 to encourage a mindset&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,153360,60],"class_list":["post-333131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-international-womens-day","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333131","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=333131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}