{"id":388880,"date":"2026-04-08T23:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/388880\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:35:09","slug":"pictures-portlaoise-welcome-for-91-year-old-peace-protester-walking-across-ireland-page-1-of-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/388880\/","title":{"rendered":"PICTURES: Portlaoise welcome for 91 year old peace protester walking across Ireland &#8211; Page 1 of 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vc_story_telling_title\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Portlaoise has given a warm welcome and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/1KVXeG2etC\/\" target=\"_blank\">even a specially composed song<\/a>, to the 91 year old woman who is walking from Shannon Airport to the D\u00e1il to protest its use by US warplanes. Lelia Doolan walked from Mountrath to Portlaoise on Wednesday, April 8 after a courtesy night in Roundwood House Hotel. With more accommodation given free by the Killeshin Hotel, she will continue on to Monasterevin on Thursday morning.\u00a0 Photos courtesy of Sol Tierney. Tap NEXT to view them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG-20260408-WA0018-1775668392202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"321\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Portlaoise has given a warm welcome and even a specially composed song, to the 91 year old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,8285,43,14233],"class_list":{"0":"post-388880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-laois","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-portlaoise"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388880","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=388880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}