{"id":441926,"date":"2026-05-23T18:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/441926\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T18:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:09:08","slug":"pittsburgh-sister-bridges-to-be-lit-in-irish-colors-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/441926\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Sister Bridges to be lit in Irish colors this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Memorial Day Weekend, but Pittsburgh’s Sister Bridges are trading the red, white, and blue of the American flag for the green, white, and orange of the Irish flag.<\/p>\n

Allegheny County is commemorating the first-ever Pittsburgh-to-Dublin direct flight, which departs Monday from Pittsburgh International Airport, by illuminating the Warhol, Carson, and Clemente Bridges in the colors of Ireland.<\/p>\n

The special lighting began Friday night and is set to last through Sunday night.<\/p>\n

The newest nonstop international destination from PIT was announced in December<\/a>. Flights via Aer Lingus are scheduled to operate four days a week, 10 months per year.<\/p>\n

Monday’s first service is scheduled to depart at 8:10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and land in Dublin at 8:10 a.m. British Standard Time, for a total duration of seven hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s Memorial Day Weekend, but Pittsburgh’s Sister Bridges are trading the red, white, and blue of the American…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-441926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}