{"id":590742,"date":"2026-08-12T07:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590742\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:06:08","slug":"watch-how-ireland-viewed-the-solar-eclipse-of-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590742\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: How Ireland viewed the solar eclipse of 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after 6pm this evening Ireland will experience a partial solar eclipse as the Moon moves across the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which will last until around 8pm, should be visible across the country.<\/p>\n<p>However, a lot will depend on what the latest weather and cloud cover reports tell us later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The last big solar eclipse event here was on 11 August 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Back then a large crowd gathered in the Phoenix Park in Dublin to try to catch a glimpse of what is a very rare occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>RT\u00c9 News was there to capture the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shortly after 6pm this evening Ireland will experience a partial solar eclipse as the Moon moves across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-590742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590742","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=590742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}