{"id":425730,"date":"2026-04-30T19:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425730\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:46:09","slug":"last-earl-of-desmond-statue-to-be-unveiled-in-castleisland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425730\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Earl of Desmond statue to be unveiled in Castleisland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A statue of the Last Earl of Desmond will be unveiled in Castleisland this evening.<\/p>\n<p>The event takes place at 7 o\u2019clock at the Castleisland Community Museum, featuring musical entertainment from singer\/songwriter Pat McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>The chainsaw sculpture is the work of artist Will Fogarty.<\/p>\n<p>The statue unveiling is part of the Castleisland 800 celebrations, organised by Rob McGuire and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/p\/The-Castle-of-the-Island-100070317725896\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Castle of the Island Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It marks the 800-year anniversary since the founding of Castleisland town.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A statue of the Last Earl of Desmond will be unveiled in Castleisland this evening. The event takes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,186109,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-425730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-earl-of-desmond","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425730","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=425730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}