{"id":389245,"date":"2026-04-09T04:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389245\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T04:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:59:16","slug":"macs-deli-is-the-right-call-for-retired-eir-workers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389245\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac&#8217;s Deli is the right call for retired Eir workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when these men kept most of Donegal connected.<\/p>\n<p>The well-known former Telecom\/Eircom of past and present met for a not-so-quiet coffee in Mac&#8217;s Deli in Letterkenny today.<\/p>\n<p>And it turned out to be the right &#8216;call.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Among them was Noel McLaughlin, Dessie O&#8217;Donnell, Paddy &#8216;Bisto&#8217; McCafferty and Mickey Dorrian.<\/p>\n<p>And who should join them but Sinn F\u00e9in Deputy P\u00e1draig Mac Lochlainn.<\/p>\n<p>Word has it that Bisto, Dorrian and O&#8217;Donnell were telling McLaughlin how to spend his money wisely when he joins them in retirement from Eir soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a time when these men kept most of Donegal connected. The well-known former Telecom\/Eircom of past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-389245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389245","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=389245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}