{"id":597400,"date":"2026-08-18T20:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597400\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:58:13","slug":"it-was-written-in-the-stars-that-meath-scientist-sadhbh-leahy-would-be-at-the-forefront-last-weeks-solar-eclipse-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597400\/","title":{"rendered":"It was written in the stars that Meath scientist Sadhbh Leahy would be at the forefront last week\u2019s solar eclipse coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787086693_722_imengine.public.prod.cmg.infomaker.io.jpeg\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n    Published:<br \/>\n    Tue 18 Aug 2026, 8:02 PM\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n        Last updated:<br \/>\n        Tue 18 Aug 2026, 8:04 PM\n      <\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">A YOUNG woman from Hurdlestown whose father abandoned an eclipse expedition to rush home for her birth has now found herself at the forefront of Ireland&#8217;s latest celestial event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Sadhbh Leahy from just outside Kells was born the day before Ireland&#8217;s 1999 solar eclipse. Almost 27 years later, she has been helping audiences understand this week&#8217;s eclipse through her role at Dunsink Observatory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">\u201cHe had to rush back to Drogheda because I wanted to be born,\u201d Sadhbh laughed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Her father was the only member of his eclipse group to see the event, after the others were left under cloudy skies in Cork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">From rural Meath to the stars, it seems the planets really did align for Sadhbh!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">READ THE FULL STORY IN THIS WEEK&#8217;S PAPER!<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787086693_913_imengine.public.prod.cmg.infomaker.io.jpeg\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n    Published:<br \/>\n    Tue 18 Aug 2026, 8:02 PM\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n        Last updated:<br \/>\n        Tue 18 Aug 2026, 8:04 PM\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Tue 18 Aug 2026, 8:02 PM Last updated: Tue 18 Aug 2026, 8:04 PM A YOUNG woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,82],"class_list":["post-597400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597400","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=597400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}