{"id":446350,"date":"2026-05-13T07:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446350\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:51:09","slug":"mary-kennedy-when-i-got-back-to-brittany-after-my-dads-funeral-two-days-later-a-letter-from-him-arrived-it-was-so-raw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446350\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Kennedy: \u2018When I got back to Brittany after my dad\u2019s funeral, two days later, a letter from him arrived. It was so raw\u2019"},"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\">The broadcaster on losing her father suddenly when she was 21, her marriage ending and loving Tayto sandwiches\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mary Kennedy. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778658669_950_31cf799e-9d9d-4621-a970-145bbe590cbb.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)\">Mary Kennedy. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/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)\">Mary Kennedy is a presenter and television personality from Clondalkin. She spent much of her career working in RT\u00c9, including presenting shows such as the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest, a chat show called Kennedy, and Nationwide towards the end of her career. She has four children and lives in Dublin.<\/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)\">What\u2019s your earliest memory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The broadcaster on losing her father suddenly when she was 21, her marriage ending and loving Tayto sandwiches&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29425,93,61,60,194033,6085],"class_list":["post-446350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aoife-rooney","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mary-kennedy","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446350","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=446350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}