{"id":556976,"date":"2026-07-19T04:41:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T04:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556976\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T04:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T04:41:34","slug":"national-wax-museum-to-unveil-new-sinead-oconnor-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556976\/","title":{"rendered":"National Wax Museum To Unveil New Sin\u00e9ad O&#8217;Connor Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 17 July 2026 16:32\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/64c202a997c63.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The waxwork figure will be unveiled next week.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The National Wax Museum has announced a new waxwork figure of Sinead O&#8217;Connor will be unveiled next week.<\/p>\n<p>The singer died in 2023 and the museum first launched a waxwork the following year, which received backlash due to the lack of resemblance to the icon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Owner of the museum, Westmeath&#8217;s Paddy Dunning says he was disappointed at the time that the piece did not meet their high standards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was the first and last person to record her music at Grouse Lodge Studios in Westmeath, before her passing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 17 July 2026 16:32 The waxwork figure will be unveiled next week. The National Wax Museum has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3279,319,93,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,278,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-556976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-music","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556976","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=556976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}