{"id":379825,"date":"2026-04-03T10:50:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379825\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:50:30","slug":"new-wooden-sculpture-unveiled-along-banks-of-wexford-river-a-symbol-of-rebirth-after-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379825\/","title":{"rendered":"New wooden sculpture unveiled along banks of Wexford river \u2013 \u2018A symbol of rebirth after flooding\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paul Kirwin and Jonathon Hughes with the sculpture.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8f6e52f4-e4db-4436-8258-f3a5dce8ac8d.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 Kirwin and Jonathon Hughes with the sculpture.<\/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)\">Enniscorthy Tidy Towns have teamed up with a local wood artist to create a nature-inspired sculpture that has found its home along the banks of the River Slaney.<\/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)\">The piece was created by hand by Paul Kirwin, a multi-talented tree sculptor and musician based in Enniscorthy. With over ten years of experience in carving which began in Canada, he was commissioned by the members of Enniscorthy Tidy Towns to create a piece to act as a reminder of the importance of protecting the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Kirwin and Jonathon Hughes with the sculpture. Enniscorthy Tidy Towns have teamed up with a local wood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,15968],"class_list":["post-379825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rachel-cahill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379825","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=379825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}