{"id":386410,"date":"2026-04-07T13:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/386410\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:52:15","slug":"we-had-to-get-to-know-each-other-again-catherine-carr-on-being-separated-from-her-sister-at-11-and-messy-sibling-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/386410\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We had to get to know each other again\u2019 \u2013 Catherine Carr on being separated from her sister at 11 and \u2018messy\u2019 sibling relationships"},"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\">Catherine Carr had to build a bond with her sister after being separated from her when she was 11. Here, she tells Tanya Sweeney why sibling relationships are so important and the impact birth order can have<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Catherine Carr explores the complexity of sibling relationships in her new book. Photo: Daria Ahafonova\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/r 1Daria Ahafonova1.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)\">Catherine Carr explores the complexity of sibling relationships in her new book. Photo: Daria Ahafonova<\/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)\">Catherine Carr has a sister who is older than her by 22 months, and a sister younger than her by six years \u2013 both of whom she gets along with famously. Yet she\u2019s the first to note that their upbringing wasn\u2019t exactly typical.<\/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)\">Carr\u2019s parents split up when she was 11. She and her older sister moved back to the UK from the Netherlands with their father, while her younger sister lived with her mother in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catherine Carr had to build a bond with her sister after being separated from her when she was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,12271],"class_list":{"0":"post-386410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tanya-sweeney"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386410","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=386410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}