{"id":339932,"date":"2026-03-11T05:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/339932\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T05:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:08:18","slug":"kerry-artist-questions-brainless-decision-to-remove-mural-of-michael-fassbender-from-killarney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/339932\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry artist questions \u2018brainless\u2019 decision to remove mural of Michael Fassbender from Killarney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LEFT: The mural by Kerry artist Paul Egan that was commisioned less than 12 months ago of Killarney acting star Michael Fassbender on a power box at East Avenue Road in Killarney and RIGHT: the same power box as of March 9, 2026 with the mural now covered up.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image MAIN.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)\">LEFT: The mural by Kerry artist Paul Egan that was commisioned less than 12 months ago of Killarney acting star Michael Fassbender on a power box at East Avenue Road in Killarney and RIGHT: the same power box as of March 9, 2026 with the mural now covered up.<\/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 Kerry-based artist has been left scratching his head as to why a mural of Killarney acting star Michael Fassbender that he was commissioned to do less than 12 months ago has been painted over in recent days.<\/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)\">Paul Egan had created the homage to the Academy Award-nominated actor in collaboration with the Kerry County Arts Office for a power box on East Avenue Road near the Outlet Centre, right in the heart of the town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEFT: The mural by Kerry artist Paul Egan that was commisioned less than 12 months ago of Killarney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,14639,61,60],"class_list":["post-339932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-fergus-dennehy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339932","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=339932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}