{"id":431247,"date":"2026-05-04T05:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/431247\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T05:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:11:13","slug":"roll-up-roll-up-circus-clown-welcomes-first-baby-during-tour-of-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/431247\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll up, roll up \u2013 circus clown welcomes first baby during tour of Ireland"},"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\">Little Leona came into the world early on April 25, but only a few days later and she would have been born in the UK as the circus moves to Belfast after the bank holiday weekend\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Clown Maycon from Brazil and his wife Carina welcomed their first baby Leona into the world at Letterkenny General Hospital in Donegal. Circus ringmistress Candice Duffy stepped in for Maycon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d917a27e-de4d-4e38-a07f-15b9b36a91ae.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)\">Clown Maycon from Brazil and his wife Carina welcomed their first baby Leona into the world at Letterkenny General Hospital in Donegal. Circus ringmistress Candice Duffy stepped in for Maycon<\/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)\">There were big smiling faces all round last week when one of Ireland\u2019s oldest Big Top acts welcomed its latest circus baby.<\/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)\">Ringmistress at Duffy\u2019s Circus, Candice Duffy stepped into the clown outfit for her first ever time in the ring while usual funnyman Maycon and his wife Carina welcomed their first baby Leona into the world at Letterkenny General Hospital in Donegal, where the circus is currently entertaining people of all generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Little Leona came into the world early on April 25, but only a few days later and she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":["post-431247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431247","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=431247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}