{"id":597134,"date":"2026-08-18T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597134\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T15:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:04:10","slug":"report-is-it-more-difficult-to-be-queer-in-rural-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597134\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Is it more difficult to be queer in rural Ireland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pride celebrations have been taking place across the Shannonside region.<br \/>Over a hundred turned up to the Pride parade in Longford Town recently, as the county marked its third annual festivities this year.<\/p>\n<p>This week, a range of activities and events will be taking place in Roscommon Town, with a parade to conclude the celebrations on Saturday at 2:30pm.<br \/>But what is it like to be a member of the LGBTQ+ community every other day of the year, and is it more difficult to be queer in rural Ireland?<br \/>Daniela Rana reports:<\/p>\n<p>This report was brought to you by the News Reporting Scheme.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pride celebrations have been taking place across the Shannonside region.Over a hundred turned up to the Pride parade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-597134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597134","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=597134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}