{"id":643580,"date":"2026-10-03T12:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/643580\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:14:22","slug":"listen-back-local-hero-of-the-week-winner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/643580\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen Back: Local hero of the week winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Mckenna from Co Monaghan has been selected as our Local Hero of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>Peter has went above and beyond over the years to raise money for numerous charities.<\/p>\n<p>The local man\u00a0 recently completed a 145km Endurance Challenge for Monaghan Special Olympics and St Dympna&#8217;s Faith &amp; Light, Tydavnet.<\/p>\n<p>Peter was nominated by a number of people including his proud daughter Lauren who told Northern Sound: &#8220;Anyone who knows dad knows that he is always doing something for someone. He just has that nature about him and constantly goes above and beyond for people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jodie Curran spoke with both Lauren and Peter on today&#8217;s Wider View.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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=\"d8b4b7bbb9b4b0bdaab798b6b7aaacb0bdaab6abb7adb6bcf6b1bd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Eurotech Renewables in Castleblayney for sponsoring this great initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Mckenna from Co Monaghan has been selected as our Local Hero of the Week. Peter has went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-643580","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\/643580","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=643580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}