{"id":213138,"date":"2025-10-20T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/213138\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:44:09","slug":"watch-north-belfast-teen-places-second-on-junior-eurovision-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/213138\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: North Belfast teen places second on Junior Eurovision Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760964249_191_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Watch: North Belfast teen places second on Junior Eurovision Ireland<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A 12-year-old singing sensation \u2014 who went viral for her performance of hit track Dance Monkey during the pandemic \u2014 has placed as a runner up in Junior Eurovision Ireland. For the competition, Isla, who has been singing since she was 8 years old, sang hit songs in Irish despite not being fluent in the language. Last year she placed third in the competition, which is broadcasted on TG4. Winning the top spot was 14-year-old Cork singer Lottie O&#8217;Driscoll Murray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch: North Belfast teen places second on Junior Eurovision Ireland A 12-year-old singing sensation \u2014 who went viral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,18168,85351,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-213138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-eurovision","tag-tg4","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}