{"id":434506,"date":"2026-05-06T04:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434506\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T04:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:21:09","slug":"103-year-old-wexford-woman-crowned-oldest-may-bush-queen-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434506\/","title":{"rendered":"103 year old Wexford woman crowned \u2018Oldest May Bush Queen\u2019 in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dote O'Neill from Castledockrell was thrilled to be crowned the May Bush Queen in Ballindaggin.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6926ee1d-7387-4b9e-926e-ee73d891a84f.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)\">Dote O&#8217;Neill from Castledockrell was thrilled to be crowned the May Bush Queen in Ballindaggin.<\/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 recent colourful May Bush celebration in Co. Wexford had a very special guest of honour.<\/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)\">The May Bush tradition is an old Irish custom observed on April 30 and May 1 to welcome summer, bring good luck, and ward off evil, often described as a summer equivalent to a Christmas tree. The tradition involves decorating a branch or small hawthorn tree (whitethorn) with flowers, ribbons, and coloured eggshells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dote O&#8217;Neill from Castledockrell was thrilled to be crowned the May Bush Queen in Ballindaggin. A recent colourful&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,15968,180576],"class_list":["post-434506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-rachel-cahill","tag-wexford-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434506","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=434506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}