feature<\/a> published last April.<\/p>\n\u201cI started as ringmistress in 2023,\u201d she told the Irish Examiner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy uncle \u2014 Tommy Courtney \u2014 was ringmaster before that but he got diagnosed with throat cancer which meant he was unable to speak on the mic anymore.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I think it was the end of 2022 that my uncle was given two weeks to live but he\u2019s still here and still with the circus. He has always been an incredible showman. It makes me happy to see how proud he is of me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We never really had a close relationship when I was growing up, but him showing me the ropes and teaching me so much really brought us together.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Circus Vegas announced his passing on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our fellow tent master and ringmaster, Tommy Courtney,\u201d they said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTommy fought an admirable battle over recent years, always staying positive, sharing his humour, and cracking jokes with everyone around him. Our hearts are broken. He was our very own Irish Greatest Showman, a true legend who will be deeply missed and never forgotten.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A beloved ringmaster known to his circus family as “Ireland’s greatest showman” has passed away following a battle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1111,61,60,43,1112],"class_list":["post-531710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-court-and-crime","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-politics-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531710","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=531710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}