{"id":429338,"date":"2026-05-02T21:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429338\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T21:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:52:15","slug":"local-td-to-step-back-from-his-convenience-store-in-ballinalee-after-nearly-two-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429338\/","title":{"rendered":"Local TD to step back from his convenience store in Ballinalee after nearly two decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local TD Miche\u00e1l Carrigy has announced he is stepping back from his convenience store in Ballinalee after nearly two decades.<br \/>The Fine Gael politician made the announcement on social media, saying he was handing over the running of Carrigy&#8217;s DayTodayNews to new management.<\/p>\n<p>The Ballinalee man opened the shop in 2007 and is also a postmaster in the village.<br \/>He says he will continue his work in the post office, which was established by his late mother in 1972.<br \/>Deputy Miche\u00e1l Carrigy explained why he has taken this decision:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local TD Miche\u00e1l Carrigy has announced he is stepping back from his convenience store in Ballinalee after nearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[187550,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-429338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ballinalee","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429338","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=429338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}