{"id":407838,"date":"2026-04-20T06:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/407838\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T06:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:52:09","slug":"frances-black-meeting-brian-was-like-winning-the-lottery-that-he-liked-me-that-he-loved-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/407838\/","title":{"rendered":"Frances Black: \u2018Meeting Brian was like winning the lottery, that he liked me, that he loved me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The senator on family, music and ten years in politics\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Frances Black at Leinster House. Photo Gr\u00e1inne N\u00ed Aodha\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SF Frances 5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Frances Black at Leinster House. Photo Gr\u00e1inne N\u00ed Aodha<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI\u2019ll tell you, this is the toughest term for me,\u201d Senator Frances Black says, with a slight sigh. We\u2019re sitting in an upstairs meeting room in Leinster House, above the Seanad chamber. We\u2019ve been talking about what she makes of the current political climate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The woman who first made her name as a singer is 10 years in politics this year, having been elected to the Seanad as an independent in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The senator on family, music and ten years in politics Frances Black at Leinster House. Photo Gr\u00e1inne N\u00ed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,97,2120,61,60,6992,15050],"class_list":{"0":"post-407838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gaza","10":"tag-hse","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-people-culture-magazine","14":"tag-seanad-eireann"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407838","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=407838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}