{"id":34263,"date":"2025-09-21T09:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/34263\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T09:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:09:11","slug":"wexford-artist-created-unique-sculpture-for-president-michael-d-higgins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/34263\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford artist created unique sculpture for President Michael D Higgins"},"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\">\u2019It\u2019s a new horizon for him \u2013 that theme went throughout the piece\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A presentation was made to President Michael D Higgins during the opening of the Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann. Pic: Jim Campbell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GG JC4_1049.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)\">A presentation was made to President Michael D Higgins during the opening of the Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann. Pic: 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)\">A renowned Wexford artist was honoured to create a one of a kind sculpture for President Michael D Higgins, which was presented to him at the opening of Fleadh Cheoil na h\u00c9ireann 2025 in Wexford.<\/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)\">Larry Harney who hails from Kilmuckridge, Co Wexford. was commissioned by Comhaltas Ceolt\u00f3ir\u00ed \u00c9ireann to create two separate pieces, one for the President, and another as a perpetual trophy\/emblem for the Fleadh, made from wood over 4,800 years old<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2019It\u2019s a new horizon for him \u2013 that theme went throughout the piece\u2019 A presentation was made to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[11711,307,304,305,306,308,93,26896,61,60],"class_list":["post-34263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-alan-white","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-fleadh-cheoil-na-heireann","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34263","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=34263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}