{"id":412069,"date":"2026-04-22T17:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412069\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:08:18","slug":"meteor-shower-to-pass-over-ireland-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412069\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteor Shower To Pass Over Ireland This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 22 April 2026 17:18\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5e8b4dccc1037.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Seanie Morris from the Midlands Astronomy Club says we&#8217;ll have to stay up to catch a glimpse.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Midlands meteor watchers are in for a treat this week, as we could be in with a chance to see some shooting stars.<\/p>\n<p>The Lyrid meteor shower is set to pass over Ireland, which is caused by Earth passing through left behind debris left by a passing comet.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast over the next few days will give the best conditions to see any potential shooting stars.<\/p>\n<p>Seanie Morris from the Midlands Astronomy Club says we&#8217;ll have to stay up to catch a glimpse:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 22 April 2026 17:18 Seanie Morris from the Midlands Astronomy Club says we&#8217;ll have to stay up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412070,"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-412069","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\/412069","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=412069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}