{"id":580893,"date":"2026-08-02T22:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580893\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T22:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:48:14","slug":"niamh-cullen-hits-back-after-being-bashed-for-having-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580893\/","title":{"rendered":"Niamh Cullen hits back after being bashed for having fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Influencer Niamh Cullen has hit back at an online troll who criticised her for having fun eight months after her husband&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Niamh was left devastated after her husband Jamie Gill passed away in November, 2025 after battling cancer, just days after the couple celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dubliner has always been open and honest on her social media about navigating the loss of her husband just 12 months into their marriage. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/snapins-ai_3611536256769667465.jpg\" alt=\"Niamh Cullen with her husband Jamie Gill. Pic: Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2013648\"  \/>Niamh Cullen with her husband Jamie Gill. Pic: Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, this weekend, she decided to let her hair down with friends and attend All Together Now festival in Waterford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But on Sunday morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2026\/03\/20\/entertainment\/celebrity\/niamh-cullen-ptsd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Niamh<\/a> took to Instagram to share a message from an unnamed social media user criticising her for having fun.<\/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 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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/snapins-ai_3635434822491512332_eb60cc.jpg\" alt=\"Niamh Cullen with her husband Jamie Gill. Pic: Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2013652\"  \/>Niamh Cullen with her husband Jamie Gill. Pic: Instagram<\/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\u00a0<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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SnapInsta-Ai_3282405678171527128.jpg\" alt=\"Niamh Cullen with her dog, Lulu. Pic: Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2122814\"  \/>Niamh Cullen with her dog, Lulu. Pic: Instagram<\/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\u00a0Instagram, responding: \u2018God forbid I\u2019m on holidays trying to have a nice time with my \u201chooch.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Influencer Niamh Cullen has hit back at an online troll who criticised her for having fun eight months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-580893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580893","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=580893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}