{"id":600921,"date":"2026-08-22T06:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/600921\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T06:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:02:10","slug":"listen-back-local-hero-of-the-week-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/600921\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen Back: Local hero of the week winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Byrne from Castleblayney has been selected as our Local Hero of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>Mary is the founder of Castleblayney News and raises money for numerous charities.<\/p>\n<p>Mary was nominated by her daughter Andrea who said Mary &#8220;always puts everyone else first&#8221; and in a stalwart in the local community.<\/p>\n<p>Jodie Curran spoke with both Mary and Andrea on today&#8217;s Wider View.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to put someone that goes above and beyond in your community, you can do so by emailing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernsound.ie\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"3f53505c5e53575a4d507f51504d4b575a4d514c504a515b11565a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Eurotech Renewables in Castleblayney for sponsoring this great initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary Byrne from Castleblayney has been selected as our Local Hero of the Week. Mary is the founder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-600921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600921","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=600921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}