{"id":439890,"date":"2026-05-09T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/439890\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:04:09","slug":"david-attenborough-commemorated-in-wicklow-with-striking-seaside-mural-on-100th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/439890\/","title":{"rendered":"David Attenborough commemorated in Wicklow with striking seaside mural on 100th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The David Attenborough mural, by artist Kayde, which was unveiled in Arklow to mark the veteran broadcaster's 100th birthday.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BP Attenborough1.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)\">The David Attenborough mural, by artist Kayde, which was unveiled in Arklow to mark the veteran broadcaster&#8217;s 100th birthday.<\/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 Wicklow artist has marked Sir David Attenborough\u2019s 100th birthday with a stunning mural in Arklow, Co Wicklow, in support of the legendary broadcaster\u2019s message of protecting the natural world.<\/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 veteran environmentalist, who celebrated the milestone on Friday, May 8, said he was \u201ccompletely overwhelmed\u201d by the messages he has received all week, but was probably not expecting a mural to be created in his honour in a coastal town in County Wicklow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The David Attenborough mural, by artist Kayde, which was unveiled in Arklow to mark the veteran broadcaster&#8217;s 100th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,10687],"class_list":["post-439890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tom-galvin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439890","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=439890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}