{"id":403569,"date":"2026-04-17T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403569\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:08:10","slug":"irelands-oldest-man-celebrates-105th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403569\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s Oldest Man Celebrates 105th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 17 April 2026 15:24\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/699ffbc4067b0.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Paddy Claffey celebrating his 100th birthday in 2021. Photo Credit: An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Laois\/Offaly<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Paddy Claffey hails from Ferbane in Offaly.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Ireland&#8217;s oldest man who currently lives in Offaly is marking another milestone today.<\/p>\n<p>Ferbane&#8217;s Paddy Claffey led last month&#8217;s St Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade in Clara as the Grand Marshal and celebrates his 105th birthday today.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s planning to mark the day with his family.<\/p>\n<p>His son Pat says he&#8217;s continuing to keep in good shape:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 17 April 2026 15:24 Paddy Claffey celebrating his 100th birthday in 2021. Photo Credit: An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403570,"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-403569","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\/403569","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=403569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}