{"id":434788,"date":"2026-05-06T08:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434788\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:09:08","slug":"kilkenny-man-home-with-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434788\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilkenny man home with Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some local people have been getting up close with one of the biggest prizes in the film world.<\/p>\n<p>Stoneyford native Colbert Fennelly worked on \u2018Avatar: Fire and Ash\u2019 which took the Academy Award for Visual Effects earlier this year, the team also picking up one for the earlier offering of the franchise in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>On a visit home, he\u2019s stopped off at a number of schools and communities with the Oscar statuette \u2013 stay tuned for more in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Colbert-Fennelly-with-Edwina-Grace-and-Oscar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-321511\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Colbert-Fennelly-with-Edwina-Grace-and-Oscar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"408\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some local people have been getting up close with one of the biggest prizes in the film world.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[128647,32159,189727,93,61,60,12969,278,50909,189728,151324],"class_list":["post-434788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-academy-award","tag-avatar","tag-colbert-fennelly","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny","tag-music","tag-oscar","tag-statuette","tag-stoneyford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434788","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=434788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}