{"id":75565,"date":"2025-10-12T10:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/75565\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:01:08","slug":"my-money-when-i-worked-with-the-waterboys-i-got-a-cheque-in-the-post-that-changed-my-life-i-bought-my-first-house-at-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/75565\/","title":{"rendered":"My Money: \u2018When I worked with The Waterboys I got a cheque in the post that changed my life \u2013 I bought my first house at 23\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\"> Musician Sharon Shannon\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'If I had to tighten my belt,  I\u2019d\u00a0hope to still be able to afford my good-quality skin and hair care,' says Shannon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SN SHARON SHANNON.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8216;If I had to tighten my belt,  I\u2019d\u00a0hope to still be able to afford my good-quality skin and hair care,&#8217; says Shannon<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Accordion virtuoso Sharon Shannon grew up on a farm in the Clare village of Ruan and lives in Galway, a city she cast into the global spotlight with her cover of the Steve Earle song Galway Girl with Mundy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Earle, Mundy and other special guests will join Shannon for a special show at Knocknarea Arena in Sligo, at 8.30pm on October 25. They will perform Galway Girl at the show, which forms part of the Sligo Live festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Musician Sharon Shannon &#8216;If I had to tighten my belt, I\u2019d\u00a0hope to still be able to afford my&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,6188,61,60],"class_list":["post-75565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gabrielle-monaghan","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75565","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=75565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}