{"id":392218,"date":"2026-04-10T21:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392218\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T21:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:17:07","slug":"pictures-much-loved-limerick-artist-has-an-80th-birthday-party-with-a-difference-page-1-of-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392218\/","title":{"rendered":"PICTURES: Much-loved Limerick artist has an 80th birthday party with a difference! &#8211; Page 1 of 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IF LIFE imitates art then young-at-heart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Limerick<\/a> artist Barbara Hartigan had the perfect \u201ckids-style\u201d 80th birthday party.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 much-loved Castleconnell lady didn\u2019t want a big fuss so her family surprised her with a party in Supermac\u2019s, Ballysimon Road.\u00a0 Husband Leslie, four children &#8211; Shane, Clare, Erin, Tara &#8211; and her grandchildren all kept the party a closely-guarded secret.<\/p>\n<p>Supermac\u2019s has special memories for Barbara and Leslie from Covid times when everyone was making the best of a difficult time. They drove there weekly for take-away fish and chips and meet up with friends in a campervan when restrictions were eased.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara had a blast at her party and even had a special guest in Pat McDonagh, owner of Supermac&#8217;s. He said he was honoured to attend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is heartening to know it has become a much-loved place for her grandchildren as well. Many special family memories have been created there over the years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe extend our warmest wishes to Barbara on her milestone birthday and hope the occasion brings lasting memories for years to come.\u201d said Mr McDonagh.<\/p>\n<p>For more pictures, click &#8216;Next&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IF LIFE imitates art then young-at-heart Limerick artist Barbara Hartigan had the perfect \u201ckids-style\u201d 80th birthday party. The\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18997,93,61,60,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-392218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-castleconnell","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-limerick-city"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392218","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=392218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}