{"id":668785,"date":"2026-10-29T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668785\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T11:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:30:12","slug":"midwest-radio-representative-wins-wildcard-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668785\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwest Radio representative wins Wildcard Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last night\u2019s 2026 edition of A New Local Hero in Dublin saw Midwest Radio\u2019s representative Chris Cresham win the Wildcard Award.<\/p>\n<p>The nationwide talent search culminated in a finale event in The Academy, which saw Shimmer Boy crowned the overall winner.<\/p>\n<p>Chris won the public vote to get the Wildcard Award and will receive a bursary of \u20ac2,500.<\/p>\n<p>A New Local Hero is one of the key elements of Irish Music Month \u2013 an intiative of Hot Press and the Independent Broadcasters of Ireland, supported by Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p>21 local and regional radio stations submitted their individual New Local Heroes as part of the talent search, which an industry judging panel whittled down to six national finalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night\u2019s 2026 edition of A New Local Hero in Dublin saw Midwest Radio\u2019s representative Chris Cresham win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-668785","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\/668785","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=668785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}