{"id":383167,"date":"2026-04-05T12:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383167\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:40:07","slug":"roscommon-town-paying-tribute-to-bosco-in-easter-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383167\/","title":{"rendered":"Roscommon town paying tribute to Bosco in Easter parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Easter Parade in a County Roscommon town is marking its close association with the puppet Bosco today.<\/p>\n<p>For almost 30 years, Strokestown has had a long tradition of having a community Easter Parade and the theme this year is &#8216;Bringing back Bosco&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In 1982 Strokestown became the manufacturing home for the famous Irish children&#8217;s television puppet.<\/p>\n<p>RT\u00c9 licensed the local Slievebawn Co-op and Strokestown Craft Work to produce the handmade dolls.<\/p>\n<p>There were eight full-time workers and over 20 people involved part time on the project to meet the demand for Bosco puppets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Easter Parade in a County Roscommon town is marking its close association with the puppet Bosco today.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-383167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383167","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=383167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}