{"id":387952,"date":"2026-04-08T10:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387952\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:54:10","slug":"this-is-kind-of-a-bubble-inside-the-60-year-old-session-still-run-by-mrs-clancys-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387952\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is kind of a bubble\u2019 \u2013 inside the 60 year-old session still run by Mrs Clancy\u2019s rules"},"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 weekly trad session at Clancy\u2019s of Athy is 60 years old this month. \u2018It\u2019s a piece of heaven,\u2019 one musician says.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The music room in full flow at Clancy's in Athy. Photo: P\u00f3l \u00d3 Conghaile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/de4db328-025a-4d4f-87ec-60c2b90af177.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)\">The music room in full flow at Clancy&#8217;s in Athy. Photo: P\u00f3l \u00d3 Conghaile<\/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)\">On a Thursday night in late March, the nation held its breath. <\/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)\">Ireland had gone to penalties against Czechia in a World Cup play-off. On the line was a summer of soccer shenanigans. But you wouldn\u2019t have known it in the middle room of Clancy\u2019s pub. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The weekly trad session at Clancy\u2019s of Athy is 60 years old this month. \u2018It\u2019s a piece of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,16418],"class_list":{"0":"post-387952","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-pol-o-conghaile"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387952","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=387952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}