{"id":38394,"date":"2025-09-23T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/38394\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:52:10","slug":"artist-don-conroy-zig-and-zag-used-to-glue-my-paints-closed-so-that-i-couldnt-open-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/38394\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Don Conroy: \u2018Zig and Zag used to glue my paints closed so that I couldn\u2019t open them\u2019"},"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\">The TV personality on the joy of Shakespeare, the loss of his brother and why AI is no replacement for human creativity\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Don Conroy. Photo: Ronan Lang\/Feature File\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7b0585ce-d312-47f9-822f-2f731e33d3be.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)\">Don Conroy. Photo: Ronan Lang\/Feature File<\/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)\">Don Conroy is an artist, author and television personality from Co Dublin. He has had a varied career, from his TV art shows and books to his conservation work, which included playing a role in the establishment of a sanctuary for dolphins and whales in Irish water. Conroy now lives with his wife Gay in Co Wicklow.<\/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)\">What\u2019s your earliest memory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The TV personality on the joy of Shakespeare, the loss of his brother and why AI is no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29425,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-38394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aoife-rooney","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38394","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=38394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}