{"id":35603,"date":"2025-09-22T02:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/35603\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T02:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:38:12","slug":"start-of-boyles-hot-air-balloon-event-delayed-for-a-third-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/35603\/","title":{"rendered":"Start of Boyle&#8217;s hot air balloon event delayed for a third time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the Irish Hot Air Ballooning Championships in Boyle has been delayed for a third time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shannonside.ie\/news\/hot-air-balloon-flight-cancelled-again-this-morning-in-boyle-273521\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flights yesterday evening and early this morning were cancelled<\/a> because it was too windy, and the organisers have confirmed this evening&#8217;s flight has also been called off.<\/p>\n<p>Huge crowds gathered in <a href=\"https:\/\/loughkey.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lough Key Forest Park<\/a> today and yesterday, in anticipation of around 20 hot air balloons taking to the sky.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast is better for tomorrow and there are high hopes the 7am flight will go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The event is due to continue until next Friday, with two sessions per day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The start of the Irish Hot Air Ballooning Championships in Boyle has been delayed for a third time.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27607,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-35603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-balloons","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35603","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=35603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}