{"id":401965,"date":"2026-04-16T17:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401965\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:32:18","slug":"internationally-acclaimed-wexford-tenor-entertains-in-hospital-outdoor-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401965\/","title":{"rendered":"Internationally acclaimed Wexford tenor entertains in hospital outdoor garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tenor<\/p>\n

Tenor Anthony Kearns at St John’s Hospital Enniscorthy.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A great crowd turned up for the outdoor concert in St John’s Hospital Enniscorthy.<\/p>\n

\"Patients<\/p>\n

Patients of St John’s Hospital, Enniscorthy were glad to be out enjoying the music.<\/p>\n

\"Anthony<\/p>\n

Anthony Kearns.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The activity garden at St John’s has become a hive of activity.<\/p>\n

\"'The<\/p>\n

‘The Hobnobs’ Jam Mackey, Peadar Moulton and Jack Murphy.<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Michael Mahan and Anthony Kearns.<\/p>\n

A local hospital’s outdoor activity garden is quickly becoming a regular hub of music and entertainment for patients and local residents.<\/p>\n

The Creative Activity Garden, located on the grounds of St. John\u2019s Community Hospital in Enniscorthy, was most recently visited by internationally-renowned tenor Anthony Kearns, having just finished singing to sold-out audiences in North America on tour with \u2018The Irish Tenors\u2019 group.<\/p>\n

Featuring an amphitheatre styled area, the Creative Activity Garden is a multi-functional space for gatherings and health and wellbeing activities in the heart of the HSE healthcare campus.<\/p>\n

The open air concert hosted there on Thursday, April 2 was attended by residents and service users of the campus, by staff and visitors, by local residents and community groups.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Hobnobs\u2019 a group comprised of local retired mental health nurses group, were also on hand for music and song.<\/p>\n

Those enjoying the lunchtime event in the Creative Activity Garden included community Garda\u00ed from Enniscorthy. The organisers were also delighted to welcome Niamh Bulger, Wexford Local Authority\u2019s Age Friendly Coordinator and Caroline Horan, Access Officer with Wexford County Council.<\/p>\n

Refreshments were kindly provided by the catering team from St. John\u2019s Community Hospital and by a local restaurant called B27.<\/p>\n

The Activity Garden project was supported as a placement incentive by Wexford County Council\u2019s Culture and Creativity team and Age Friendly programme, in partnership with the HSE, Creative Ireland, the Irish Architectural Foundation and the Enniscorthy Men\u2019s Shed.<\/p>\n

Opened in September of last year, the development was also made possible thanks to funding from the government\u2019s Town and Village Renewal Scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tenor Anthony Kearns at St John’s Hospital Enniscorthy. A great crowd turned up for the outdoor concert in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60,15968],"class_list":{"0":"post-401965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-rachel-cahill"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401965","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=401965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}