{"id":359165,"date":"2026-03-22T10:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359165\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:44:12","slug":"ciaran-cannon-on-his-daughter-who-was-stillborn-she-would-be-23-now-i-often-wonder-what-she-would-look-like-and-how-would-her-presence-have-changed-the-rest-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359165\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciar\u00e1n Cannon on his daughter who was stillborn: \u2018She would be 23 now. I often wonder what she would look like? And how would her presence have changed the rest of us?\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 former PD leader and junior minister reflects on his political career, how a public-facing life has become toxic, and leaning into his passions as a musician\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ciar\u00e1n Cannon won't miss the more toxic elements of today's party politics. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15225551-ace5-4b57-822b-6cdc89a75285.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)\">Ciar\u00e1n Cannon won&#8217;t miss the more toxic elements of today&#8217;s party politics. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/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)\">Waiting in the wings of the National Concert Hall, Ciar\u00e1n Cannon felt suspended \u201cbetween terror and ecstasy\u201d. He was about to perform, on piano, a song he had written, accompanied by the RT\u00c9 Concert Orchestra.<\/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)\">\u201cYou\u2019re going on stage with consummate professional musicians. David Brophy was conducting. You\u2019ve got David Agnew over there on the oboe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former PD leader and junior minister reflects on his political career, how a public-facing life has become&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29575,93,3775,61,60,6992],"class_list":["post-359165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-donal-lynch","tag-entertainment","tag-fine-gael","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-people-culture-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359165","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=359165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}