{"id":629762,"date":"2026-09-19T17:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629762\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T17:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:24:14","slug":"appeal-made-for-sentimental-object-accidentally-donated-to-charity-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629762\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal made for &#8220;sentimental&#8221; object accidentally donated to charity shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An appeal has been made to help reunite a family with a sentimental ornament which was mistakenly donated to a charity shop in Buncrana.<\/p>\n<p>Local Councillor Jack Murray has shared the appeal on behalf of a local family, who misplaced the object whilst in the midst of moving house.<\/p>\n<p>The ornament, depicting the Madonna and Child, was mistakenly placed in a box alongside other items being donated, and was handed in to the iCARE Charity Shop on Buncrana Main Street approximately 12-14 weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-650392 in-content-img not-prose w-full\" height=\"1404\" width=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/appeal-made-for-quot-sentimental-quot-object-accidentally-donated-to-charity-shop.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-serif font-normal text-base leading-6 text-tertiary not-prose\"> The china ornament which was mistakenly donated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ornament carries significant sentimental value to the family, and they would dearly love to get it back,&#8221; Cllr Murray said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you purchased it, or know someone who may have, the family will happily reimburse whatever was paid for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you think you can help locate it, please send me a private message.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Please share and hopefully we can reunite it with the family,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An appeal has been made to help reunite a family with a sentimental ornament which was mistakenly donated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-629762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629762","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=629762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}