{"id":430687,"date":"2026-05-03T20:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430687\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T20:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:16:10","slug":"pat-stacey-rtes-come-to-your-census-series-suffers-from-needless-presence-of-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430687\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Stacey: RT\u00c9\u2019s &#8216;Come to Your Census&#8217; series suffers from needless presence of celebrities"},"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\">\nThe participants in Come to Your Census include Dermot Bannon, who needs more TV exposure about as much as Elon Musk needs another billion\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"London-born trade union leader Mick Lynch explores his Irish roots in the first episode of the disappointing two-parter 'Come to Your Census'. Photo: RT\u00c9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/lynch census.jpeg\" 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)\">London-born trade union leader Mick Lynch explores his Irish roots in the first episode of the disappointing two-parter &#8216;Come to Your Census&#8217;. Photo: RT\u00c9<\/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)\">Like many other people, as soon as the 1926 census was made available online on April 18, I eagerly dived in to look up both sides of my family.<\/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)\">My eldest daughter has done a huge amount of research on our family history in recent years, so we more or less knew who we\u2019d find and where we\u2019d find them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The participants in Come to Your Census include Dermot Bannon, who needs more TV exposure about as much&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,60404,605,93,61,60,9617,6085],"class_list":["post-430687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-dermot-bannon","tag-elon-musk","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pat-stacey","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430687","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=430687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}