{"id":465157,"date":"2026-05-24T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/465157\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:03:08","slug":"watch-africa-day-celebrated-in-dun-laoghaire-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/465157\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Africa Day celebrated in D\u00fan Laoghaire park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00fan Laoghaire is one of the locations where Africa Day is being celebrated this year, with an event in the People&#8217;s Park just beside the seafront and close to the town&#8217;s harbour.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration, organised by D\u00fan Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, featured performers from Nigeria, South Africa, Lesotho, Ghana and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Pierot Ngadi, one of the MC&#8217;s for the event, said Africa Day is a celebration of unity, of African culture and of Africans&#8217; contribution to the country.<\/p>\n<p>A moment&#8217;s silence was observed for the young Congolese man Yves Sakila who died on 19 May after security personnel detained him in connection with an alleged shoplifting incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"D\u00fan Laoghaire is one of the locations where Africa Day is being celebrated this year, with an event&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-465157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465157","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=465157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}