{"id":361591,"date":"2026-03-23T23:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361591\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T23:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:06:07","slug":"irish-actor-ben-keaton-who-appeared-in-father-ted-dies-aged-69-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361591\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish actor Ben Keaton, who appeared in Father Ted, dies aged 69 &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihAFBVV95cUxPV2g2Rm9MOWNHSHFlaVhsamhLV2NDZzN1N0ZVRkcyakY0eEtYRUJIV2VQZ2E1b0tVbVRYZ0lkeWFad1drX1V0UTdiZE5YVlJUTXZOOV9jcXR2cEhLdDlRa3pLSUdLYkx2d2lqWGk1aWZGZ2JCUXF0MEhjZXVZTkpXajdWRWQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Irish actor Ben Keaton, who appeared in Father Ted, dies aged 69<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMicEFVX3lxTE1tN0hidFBFeGdTaG1UaTF5WDlxQXRpelNIQ1R5QklJbGVtckczRWJBMlRPOVR4cVIyN3ZLOE9TRGpObUNPdjBTS1BPa1FnQ04tOGVKYjZMNi0xSUJFVzVhYzFZRlJiV3dYSm4zX1JGVm8?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BURKE-KENNEDY, Ben: Death<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMic0FVX3lxTFBQWVlrWjh2SXduS2lTUTFabUtocHFUbElQSXNBNUNhZEZaaVlnOUZwU0x3cHpKQ1pBcWM4S3Z4SGZWMmFKQUMteW1OeDItSXE2SmJwSjZrT0pYa3NYOFdpRGN6UGV4MXJMd3NKMFJPTDY4Y3c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;You will always be a legend&#8217;: Tributes paid as Father Ted star Ben Keaton dies aged 69<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Examiner<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMid0FVX3lxTFBlUFd6U1R0SUNac3l4cHRnMEdIS3lESkFOTzN3RzNacWVzbFFqb2JHX0JHS3lrWFVBZ3REVkFKTFhYV1hKXzRuOTQzNFMxSGJ5QkZxeUZKQVY4X1pvYnNaY0tpbENoV3o5djMtMjBzQlJ1MHRkeHdN?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Father Ted actor Ben Keaton has died<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;her.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiiAFBVV95cUxOaE1Yc0tLSzloQ1NiSHpTV0U3WWc4ZDNjQ0pDZGlvNnZ2TVFRQV94MDdROUNSNEZULUQ0Y3JiQk1nQXpzcVEtSlUtZ1AzOWo3WTM3c1dsN05ELWpjNHU5aTV0ZW12dG9pbGpCNGRlaGtQZ01nakl4SktqWWFzUkdDRTNwUXBkVFdk0gGOAUFVX3lxTE5rOXJ2Q0lrcENxQnM3eXV1Vk5XcU13OUxodWR4Y2xNcTgxQ1ltRTltNnpmSlVtSWlCcmpLbFNKNk5aTGhWWkRpc2Fxc1preC01VFFqRk00MVhPY2lrRzlleWNJRG0wWkNxMGhZS1RLeGpIZWVZWFdLazF2ZENxSHlPQ2FnMG9VZndMMDJKQWc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Father Ted star dies suddenly aged 70 as poignant tributes paid<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish actor Ben Keaton, who appeared in Father Ted, dies aged 69&nbsp;&nbsp;The JournalBURKE-KENNEDY, Ben: Death&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times&#8216;You will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[163496,321,93,163497,1459,61,60,4356],"class_list":["post-361591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ben-keaton","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-father-austin-purcell","tag-father-ted","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361591","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=361591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}