{"id":580463,"date":"2026-08-02T15:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580463\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T15:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:41:11","slug":"niamh-cullen-responds-to-cruel-message-about-festival-attendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580463\/","title":{"rendered":"Niamh Cullen responds to cruel message about festival attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Niamh Cullen has hit back at a cruel message accusing her of \u2018acting as though nothing happened\u2019 eight months after the loss of her husband.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The influencer wed her long-time love, Jamie Gill, in a beautiful Italian wedding in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The newlyweds had a mini-honeymoon in Rome where Jamie fell ill. He was later diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/niamhcullenfeat.jpg\" alt=\"Niamh Cullen\" class=\"wp-image-1774406\"  \/>Pic: Instagram\/ Niamh Cullen<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In November 2025, Jamie lost his battle, with Niamh open about navigating the highs and lows of grieving the loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dublin native is among some 35,000 festival-goers who have descended on Waterford for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alltogethernow.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">All Together Now<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 34-year-old is attending the festival alongside fellow content creator <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/tag\/ashley-kehoe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Kehoe<\/a> and a group of friends.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2025-12-10-142911-e1765377187301.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1719980\"  \/>Niamh and Jamie. Pic: Instagram\/Niamh Cullen<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keeping her followers up to date, Niamh has shared snippets of the festival to date including a sweet snap alongside a childhood best friend of her husband\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday morning, Niamh took to Instagram to share a message from an unnamed social media user.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Replying to one of her Instagram Stories, the person said: \u2018What happened to a period of mourning at least?! Usually a year before acting as though nothing happened.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ashleykehoe-niamhcullen.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley Kehoe, Niamh Cullen\" class=\"wp-image-1798045\"  \/>Pic: Instagram\/ Niamh Cullen<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Niamh captioned the snap: \u2018God forbid I slip out of my reality for a weekend. A hoochie basher over here.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The influencer followed up, adding that she was gonna have \u2018an EXTRA WHOOPER big ball today.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s not the first time Niamh has faced cruel criticism, with another message sent to her earlier in the year when she <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/05\/21\/entertainment\/celebrity\/niamh-cullen-cruel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">holidayed in Lisbon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding to a TikTok Niamh shared to her Instagram Story from the beach, the message read: \u2018Your posts are so weird.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018One minute the grieving widow. The next literally showing your hooch. Honestly, don\u2019t get the vibe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Perhaps just drunk as all your other posts just show you drinking alcohol!\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Niamh shared the message to her\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>, responding: \u2018God forbid I\u2019m on holidays trying to have a nice time with my \u201chooch.\u201d\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/showheroes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Niamh Cullen has hit back at a cruel message accusing her of \u2018acting as though nothing happened\u2019 eight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-580463","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\/580463","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=580463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}