{"id":485348,"date":"2026-06-06T00:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/485348\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:09:08","slug":"over-1000-events-across-ireland-for-cruinniu-na-nog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/485348\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1,000 events across Ireland for Cruinni\u00fa na n\u00d3g"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 1,000 events are taking place across the island of Ireland as part of Cruinni\u00fa na n\u00d3g.<\/p>\n<p>The event celebrates and encourages participation by children and young people in creative activities in their local area.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland is the only country in the world to have a national day of free creativity for children and young people.<\/p>\n<p>The first ever Cruinni\u00fa na n\u00d3g took place in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>At the launch of Cruinni\u00fa na n\u00d3g 2026, Minister for Culture Patrick O&#8217;Donovan said the event is &#8220;ambitious, inclusive and inspiring, reflecting the importance of investing in young people&#8217;s ideas, voices and creative potential&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Children celebrating the launch of Cruinni\u00fa na n\u00d3g 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/00247a7e-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nMinister for Culture Patrick O&#8217;Donovan said the event is &#8216;inclusive and inspiring&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The minister added: &#8220;This year\u2019s programme includes over 1,300 free events all over the island of Ireland, alongside the return of Cruinni\u00fa Late, which offers dedicated youth-led spaces for teenagers to gather, create and express themselves in a safe environment created by and for young people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the events taking place are Circus C\u00e9il\u00ed, which will bring young people together to celebrate circus through workshops, performances and new creative collaborations<\/p>\n<p>The Walls Project will see workshops in 13 locations offering young people the opportunity to work with professional mural artists to create large-scale public artworks.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 youth theatre groups will also unite in five regional hubs to collaborate, perform, and celebrate their creativity as part of the Youth Theatre Ireland project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 1,000 events are taking place across the island of Ireland as part of Cruinni\u00fa na n\u00d3g. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-485348","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\/485348","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=485348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}