{"id":615921,"date":"2026-09-06T03:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T03:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615921\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T03:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T03:54:44","slug":"local-tragedies-as-worthy-of-commemoration-as-national-events-taoiseach-says-in-dromcollogher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615921\/","title":{"rendered":"Local tragedies as worthy of commemoration as national events, Taoiseach says in Dromcollogher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local tragedies are just as much the part of Ireland\u2019s history and as worthy of commemoration as great national events, said Taoiseach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/micheal-martin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/micheal-martin\">Mich\u00e9al Martin<\/a> as he praised the people of Dromcollogher, Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\">Limerick<\/a>, for remembering 48 people killed in a cinema fire there 100 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Martin told the Dromcollogher cinema fire commemoration that the tragedy \u2013 which claimed the lives of 48 people on the night of September 5th, 1926, when a candle fell on a reel of nitrate film turning the makeshift cinema into a blazing inferno \u2013 would never be forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local tragedies are just as much the part of Ireland\u2019s history and as worthy of commemoration as great&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-615921","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\/615921","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=615921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}