{"id":428144,"date":"2026-05-02T04:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/428144\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T04:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:57:11","slug":"dermot-olearys-ultimate-guide-to-visiting-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/428144\/","title":{"rendered":"Dermot O&#8217;Leary&#8217;s ultimate guide to visiting Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staying on the Causeway Coastal Route in Northern Ireland, I\u2019d urge people to visit Ballycastle. It\u2019s a stunning little beach town full of independent shops and a great bakery called Ursa Minor Bakehouse. You can then make your way down to the Wild Atlantic Way to visit the gorgeous Slieve League cliffs in County Donegal. Donegal itself is a great place. As you have to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/travel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">travel<\/a> there intentionally, it retains a very special character, in its food and its people. Down in Wexford, one of my favourite swimming spots is Baginbun Head. It\u2019s set in a gorgeous cove, it\u2019s never too busy and the water is turquoise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staying on the Causeway Coastal Route in Northern Ireland, I\u2019d urge people to visit Ballycastle. It\u2019s a stunning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22474,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-428144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dermot-oleary","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428144","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=428144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}