{"id":349212,"date":"2026-03-16T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/349212\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:45:12","slug":"newbridge-saraid-hartnett-crowned-irelands-favourite-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/349212\/","title":{"rendered":"Newbridge Saraid Hartnett Crowned Ireland&#8217;s Favourite Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Monday, 16 March 2026 14:14\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__author\">\n                        By Emma O&#8217;Connor\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69b80eecd6be0.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Saraid Hartnett pictured with her Mam Helen and Dog Diggle<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The competition called on people nationwide to nominate themselves or a sibling.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Saraid Hartnett from Newbridge has been crowned the winner of Ireland&#8217;s Favourite Child &#8211;\u00a0 taking home an incredible \u20ac10,000 euro in ALDI gift cards.<\/p>\n<p>The feel-good competition called on people nationwide to nominate themselves or a sibling and prove they were the true \u2018golden child\u2019 at home.<\/p>\n<p>1000\u2019s of entries poured in from every county, celebrating the meaningful gestures that make Irish Mams proud.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about her new title Saraid said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m absolutely delighted to be crowned Ireland\u2019s Favourite Child, and I definintely\u00a0\u00a0some bragging rights at home now. My mam\u00a0does so much for me every day, so it means the world to be able to give something back and treat her this Mother\u2019s Day\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 16 March 2026 14:14 By Emma O&#8217;Connor Saraid Hartnett pictured with her Mam Helen and Dog Diggle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,28328,3770,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-349212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-kfm","11":"tag-kildare","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349212","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=349212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}