{"id":401363,"date":"2026-04-16T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401363\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:38:09","slug":"91-year-old-activist-completes-peaceful-protest-walk-across-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401363\/","title":{"rendered":"91 Year Old Activist Completes Peaceful Protest Walk Across Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Thursday, 16 April 2026 09:42\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69d656ff615e0.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Lelia Doolan passed through Laois in her walk to the Dail protesting the US military use of Shannon Airport.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A 91 year old woman who walked the width of Ireland in protest against US military use of Shannon Airport has completed her journey.<\/p>\n<p>Lelia Doolan walked from the airport through Laois, Tipperary, and Kildare before arriving in Dublin yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>She was joined by around 20 protesters when travelling through Laois, with the owners of Roundwood House Hotel in Mountrath offering her free accomodation in support of her campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Doolan says Ireland is becoming complicit in America&#8217;s foreign policy decisions:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 16 April 2026 09:42 Lelia Doolan passed through Laois in her walk to the Dail protesting the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":{"0":"post-401363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-broadcast","9":"tag-broadcasting","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-irish-news","13":"tag-laois","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-local-radio","16":"tag-midlands","17":"tag-midlands-103","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-offaly","20":"tag-radio","21":"tag-westmeath"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401363","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=401363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}