{"id":421884,"date":"2026-04-28T16:20:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421884\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:20:35","slug":"civil-ceremonies-are-now-more-popular-than-catholic-weddings-in-ireland-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421884\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil ceremonies are now more popular than Catholic weddings in Ireland &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijgFBVV95cUxObWkwbjdfeExHVHRkX0h1bFZsa3Y5dEZhUUFYVktrMU5EOXdTdGdpWm8yQU1fOGRqd0xyUUo1WDQtX2RxamJlSnNQdXkwdFllM3NYRW1WaDV4b0dNd1BWUVlmMGRBcVBVY2RzS3FqWGgtRGh2ZFpjZHhVSlJNcGZudXJORnEtZ0FtNDRzUE9B?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Civil ceremonies are now more popular than Catholic weddings in Ireland<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMibkFVX3lxTE5WZzFLSVMzeEJNazVsYlEtWXJPTmRXeTZsUW5xV2RBWjRnTVBlQ1hybFNtS2ZpZzVPN1M3NUpuSk9MZjc2N2tBQm9sU2NzdGN6NHhTSnZESFNDV1JmR3MyVVUtRDVEdlZuY29RV0N3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Civil marriages now more common than Catholic ceremonies<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivgFBVV95cUxObnlOcVZ4bVRwblFVeFhTUFBhODc0aDFDbzdUVEV5X2JNRzFrRzBieHp2ajNJZlo5ck9ySEU4NzN4eTljdGdudkw3bGt6aDFmN2kyNmxybWZUWVE2MGFqWWRuN003M1k3Zm5ubXpTUG1oclI0RTUwNndVWS1IaEtucnFSdVRIYklvWkxOcmFVaXFRVkU5MVppTlJZeUtWWTJWV3pRMUY5TmhSWndSSGxYRk1qT2dNeHp1NFZjMzFn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Catholic weddings in Ireland drop by more than half in 10 years<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi3gFBVV95cUxQVWJZeThIcTlWSk9JYWxFbUJUSU1RQ1dmNEkwOTlCZGNkbmQ2RWtyUzZkMTZCU0IyZGZsOTVKSEtVNTY5M3JkSEMxb2JjRGtNanY1NlVRRVU1dFB6UlNING9zeE91TnUxQUd6M0RzaWZCRHI0cDZmTUNDcnUzOXhkNVJWM1QtQThXOVpuNDZyR1BaLVJKTjJ2bHA3MzVxSFc2MWZGdE9CM3BCbEo0QUtSeFlQNlh1NGJZV2FLeTc2enZfT2xlWUVkdl9ILTBUall4WG8xNWVmVDdfSFpnUnc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Number of Catholic weddings in Ireland drops by more than half in 10 years, CSO figures show<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitAFBVV95cUxPRENPRndlUmNlMTBjUldncU9ZcWZ1U1RpWGRqYTRFQXJWeE1uVURkaEZGOGJWVm9CSWtCWURyVHBvQ24zQUswOTJLdmxZdVdjdDczLVN3Q3VMbnBmUHNFVlc1WXU4ajRaeUtBakotdmdoclhia1B0aFpQXzRuTkJNUlY2aWIzY1BzVGJIZi1sRkN4RmJoUmpvbm5oV0pVNXowaEkxSE9MLWVKWmg4OXAtYjBxRWM?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ireland hasn\u2019t vanished over the past 50 years \u2013 it has simply changed<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Civil ceremonies are now more popular than Catholic weddings in Ireland&nbsp;&nbsp;The JournalCivil marriages now more common than Catholic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4998,184627,42,4630,43,184628,184629,184630,40,38,41,39,173651],"class_list":["post-421884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-weddings","tag-civil-ceremony","tag-headlines","tag-marriage","tag-news","tag-put-a-ring-on-it","tag-religious-ceremony","tag-roman-catholic","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wedding-bells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421884","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=421884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}