{"id":666129,"date":"2026-10-26T20:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666129\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T20:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:26:09","slug":"ballymaloe-co-founder-rory-oconnell-ties-the-knot-with-sweet-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666129\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballymaloe co-founder Rory O\u2019Connell ties the knot with sweet detail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Ballymaloe Cookery School&#8217;s co-founder Rory O&#8217;Connell has tied the knot.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connell said &#8216;I do&#8217; to his partner Ruaidhr\u00ed Carmody at Ballymaloe House Hotel in East Cork on Thursday, October 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sharing photos from his nuptials on Instagram this week, the Ballycotton resident wrote: &#8216;One week married. What a day it was. So much joy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">O&#8217;Connell founded the legendary cookery school alongside his sister Darina Allen in 1983, where he continues to teach to this day. The hotel is also owned by the Allen family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The wedding was attended by fellow chef and cookbook author Clodagh McKenna, who was joined by her husband, Harry Herbert. Darina Allen and Rory&#8217;s niece-in-law, fellow cookbook author  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/lifestyle\/people\/arid-41912362.html\">Rachel Allen,<\/a> were also among the guests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">McKenna offered a glimpse of the enviable wedding menu on Instagram detailing a Hors d&#8217;Oeuvre buffet, Ballycotton John Dory and a classic Ballymaloe cheese board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;The most incredible dinner by head chef Dervilla Flynn&#8221;, she said, highlighting the inclusion of one very sweet detail Ballymaloe is recognised for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Wedding desert trolley of dreams by the fabulous JR Ryall,&#8221; she shared. Sure, it couldn&#8217;t have been anything else!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ballymaloe Cookery School&#8217;s co-founder Rory O&#8217;Connell has tied the knot. O&#8217;Connell said &#8216;I do&#8217; to his partner Ruaidhr\u00ed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,19930],"class_list":["post-666129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-this-much-i-know-column-shape-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666129","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=666129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}