{"id":499883,"date":"2026-06-14T23:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499883\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T23:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:02:09","slug":"john-and-tara-mcareavey-set-to-welcome-third-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499883\/","title":{"rendered":"John and Tara McAreavey set to welcome third child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John McAreavey has confirmed he is set to welcome his third child with wife, Tara.<\/p>\n<p>The couple appear to have enjoyed a sun-soaked baby moon abroad in Ibiza in Spain ahead of welcoming their third arrival.<\/p>\n<p>John and Tara are already busy parents to two children, James, 6 and two-year-old daughter, Lily. John made the announcement as he posted a series of pictures on his social media with Tara on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/John.jpg\" alt=\"John and Tara McAreavey announce baby news. Pic: John McAreavey\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2155660\"  \/>John and Tara McAreavey announce baby news. Pic: John McAreavey\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Captioning the pictures, including one with Tara showing her growing bump in a green dress, John wrote: &#8216;Lovely few days with\u00a0@tara_mcareavey\u00a0\ud83c\udfd6\ufe0f\ud83c\udfc3\ud83c\udf7b\ud83c\udf52\u2764\ufe0f&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It has been a busy few months for the family-of-four. In April, John threw a big party for Tara to celebrate her 40th birthday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/John2.jpg\" alt=\"John and Tara McAreavey on holidays in Ibiza. Pic: John McAreavey\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2155661\"  \/>John and Tara McAreavey on holidays in Ibiza. Pic: John McAreavey\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>John tragically lost his first wife Michaela Harte in 2011 after she was murdered on their honeymoon in <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2019\/01\/21\/entertainment\/celebrity\/una-healy-holiday-envy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mauritius<\/a>. Michaela, a daughter of Gaelic football boss Mickey Harte, was only 27 at the time of her death.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking recently to Pat Kenny, about becoming a first-time dad John said in 2020: &#8216;I was able to find Tara and we\u2019ve had a beautiful relationship and now we\u2019re about to have an addition to our family and it\u2019s just something that I feel so grateful for and I\u2019m just so excited by that.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>John and <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2026\/04\/20\/entertainment\/tara-and-john-mcareavey-40th\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tara<\/a> met in 2012 at an event in memory of his late wife Michaela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John McAreavey has confirmed he is set to welcome his third child with wife, Tara. The couple appear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-499883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499883","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=499883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}