{"id":372026,"date":"2026-03-29T22:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T22:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:22:09","slug":"tanaiste-simon-harris-announced-for-new-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372026\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris announced for new role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris has shared his delight after he has been announced for an important new role. <\/p>\n<p>The Fine Gael TD has revealed he has been asked to be godfather to his newborn nephew, Harry.<\/p>\n<p>The Wicklow politician&#8217;s little sister welcomed her first child in January and Simon and his brother and AsIAm founder Adam Harris are besotted with the little tot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SEI274765934.jpg\" alt=\"Tanaiste and Fine Gaell party leader Simon Harris arrives to speak to media outside Government Buildings before this morning's meeting of the Cabinet. Pic: Leah Farrell\/RollingNews.ie\" class=\"wp-image-2066942\"  \/>Tanaiste and Fine Gaell party leader Simon Harris arrives to speak to media outside Government Buildings before this morning&#8217;s meeting of the Cabinet. Pic: Leah Farrell\/RollingNews.ie<\/p>\n<p>Sharing a rare insight into his family life, Simon uploaded a picture of himself holding baby Harry.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: &#8216;Great cuddles with my little new nephew, Harry. Delighted to be asked to be his godfather.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Simon.jpg\" alt=\"Simon Harris cuddles his newborn nephew, Harry. Pic: Instagram Simon Harris TD\" class=\"wp-image-2126356\"  \/>Simon Harris cuddles his newborn nephew, Harry. Pic: Instagram Simon Harris TD<\/p>\n<p>Simon is also to two children with his wife, Caoimhe Wade. The couple welcomed their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2021\/09\/22\/entertainment\/simon-harris-welcomes-second-child\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first child<\/a>, Saoirse, in January 2019 followed by their son, Cillian, in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/03\/26\/news\/irish-news\/simon-harris-homework-world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simon<\/a> previously spoke about being a dad, calling it his &#8216;most important job&#8217; on Doireann Garrihy&#8217;s Laughs Of Your Life podcast, telling the host how Saoirse was developing a fun personality.<\/p>\n<p>He added at the time: &#8216;You know the way they become funny? For a while they are just babies and all of a sudden you come home one evening and they are a little person. They are running around and they have developed a little personality.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris has shared his delight after he has been announced for an important new role. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-372026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372026","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=372026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}