{"id":384877,"date":"2026-04-06T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384877\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:45:10","slug":"nch-reconsiders-alan-shatter-fundraiser-after-saying-it-was-not-told-about-performance-of-october-7-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384877\/","title":{"rendered":"NCH reconsiders Alan Shatter fundraiser after saying it was not told about performance of October 7 play"},"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\">Irish writers ask American supporters for donations to cover costs of production\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Fine Gael justice minister Alan Shatter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/de58fa18-5149-4fd9-b5b3-f41fdb620d53.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)\">Former Fine Gael justice minister Alan Shatter<\/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 National Concert Hall is considering for the second time whether a private fundraising event for an Israeli ambulance service should go ahead as scheduled at the venue next month.<\/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)\">A \u201cstaged reading\u201d of October 7, a play that drew protests and required heavy security when performed at US venues, is scheduled to take place at the NCH\u2019s John Field Room on May 11 as part of an event hosted by former Fine Gael justice minister Alan Shatter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish writers ask American supporters for donations to cover costs of production Former Fine Gael justice minister Alan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[97,4502,42,3410,6134,43,4268,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-384877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-gaza","9":"tag-hamas","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-maeve-sheehan","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-palestine","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384877","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=384877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}