{"id":352269,"date":"2026-03-18T08:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/352269\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:19:09","slug":"marty-morrissey-i-miss-my-mum-every-day-she-was-a-great-woman-a-mad-rebel-from-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/352269\/","title":{"rendered":"Marty Morrissey: \u2018I miss my mum every day. She was a great woman, a mad rebel from Cork\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\">The sports broadcaster on growing up in New York as an only child, losing his mother and why he wants a \u2018Dancing with the Stars\u2019 comeback\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marty Morrissey. Photo: Eamon Ward\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3b7f53ec-2527-40c7-9cbc-21ec71c25515.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)\">Marty Morrissey. Photo: Eamon Ward<\/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)\">Marty Morrissey is a sporting commentator and broadcaster from Co Clare. Spending his childhood in the Bronx neighbourhood of New York, he returned to Ireland as a teenager and went on to become a teacher before turning to broadcasting. Now RT\u00c9\u2019s GAA correspondent, he has covered everything from All-Irelands to Olympic Games. He lives in Dublin. <\/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)\">What\u2019s your earliest memory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sports broadcaster on growing up in New York as an only child, losing his mother and why&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29425,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-352269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aoife-rooney","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352269","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=352269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}