{"id":429770,"date":"2026-05-03T05:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429770\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T05:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:40:12","slug":"25-years-on-one-ireland-trip-still-means-everything-to-this-us-couple-blessed-by-luck-of-the-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429770\/","title":{"rendered":"25 years on, one Ireland trip still means everything to this US couple \u2013 \u2018Blessed by luck of the Irish\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Sean Klimczak and his now-wife, Kimberly, got engaged near the Ring of Kerry 25 years ago last month. They have never stopped loving Ireland since.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kim and Sean Klimczak are still together all these years later and last week celebrated 30 years of dating in total. They will celebrate being 25 years married next year.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/61d8ac97-1c4e-48a1-bb75-89053d611c53.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Kim and Sean Klimczak are still together all these years later and last week celebrated 30 years of dating in total. They will celebrate being 25 years married next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A US couple who got engaged in Ireland during the 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis say the trip remains one of the most memorable moments of their lives, 25 years on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Picture the scene: it\u2019s March 2001, and Ireland is just about coming out of the strict precautions caused by the crisis. Animals were being slaughtered in their thousands, forests and tourist sites were closed, and events were being cancelled left, right and centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Klimczak and his now-wife, Kimberly, got engaged near the Ring of Kerry 25 years ago last month.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14639,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-429770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fergus-dennehy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429770","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=429770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}