{"id":372898,"date":"2026-03-30T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372898\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:57:13","slug":"meet-the-wexford-man-driving-snowcats-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372898\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Wexford man driving snowcats around the world"},"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\">Paul Wilson\u2019s career has taken him everywhere from Syria, Russia, China and New Zealand to last month\u2019s Winter Olympics in Milan\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paul Wilson (left) with Irish alpine skier Cormac Comerford at the 2026 Winter Olympics.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/84f37587-f9fb-4438-987c-76b34aee28d4.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)\">Paul Wilson (left) with Irish alpine skier Cormac Comerford at the 2026 Winter Olympics.<\/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)\">Paul Wilson is in many ways a bit like a superhero. By day, he is one thing and by night another.<\/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)\">Having grown up on a dairy and tillage farm in Co Wexford, he completed his Leaving Cert exams at St. Peter\u2019s College, before dropping out of college \u2013 just like Bill Gates but with a smaller bank account, he jokes. He is the eastern territory manager for Pottinger Ireland, the Austrian agriculture giant. That is the day job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Wilson\u2019s career has taken him everywhere from Syria, Russia, China and New Zealand to last month\u2019s Winter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3502,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-372898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cillian-boggan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372898","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=372898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}