{"id":639539,"date":"2026-09-29T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/639539\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:58:09","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-donates-e150000-to-waterford-gaa-clubs-after-buying-castle-in-the-area-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/639539\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg donates \u20ac150,000 to Waterford GAA clubs after buying castle in the area \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mark-zuckerberg\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mark-zuckerberg\/\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> and his wife Priscilla Chan have donated \u20ac150,000 to three GAA clubs in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/waterford\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/waterford\/\">Waterford<\/a> located near Strancally Castle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/property\/2026\/08\/20\/meta-boss-mark-zuckerberg-buys-co-waterford-castle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/property\/2026\/08\/20\/meta-boss-mark-zuckerberg-buys-co-waterford-castle\/\">which they recently purchased<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The three clubs \u2013 Shamrocks in Knockanore, Tallow, and Lismore \u2013 will each receive \u20ac50,000 over a two-year period, with the donations to be spread out at \u20ac25,000 per year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A statement on behalf of Meta CEO Zuckerberg and his wife read: \u201cThe GAA is at the heart of communities across Ireland. As new members of the Waterford community, we\u2019re proud to support these local clubs and the important role they play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The pair purchased Strancally Castle in August. The castle is located on a 440-acre estate on the banks of the River Blackwater. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have donated \u20ac150,000 to three GAA clubs in Waterford located near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7026,42,2597,1226,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-639539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-waterford-gaa","tag-headlines","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-meta","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639539","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=639539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}