{"id":108153,"date":"2025-10-08T06:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/108153\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:14:09","slug":"gina-and-karol-daly-on-grief-down-syndrome-weight-struggles-and-their-new-cookbook-the-daly-dish-airfryer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/108153\/","title":{"rendered":"Gina and Karol Daly on grief, Down syndrome, weight struggles and their new cookbook The Daly Dish Airfryer"},"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\">\nAhead of their fourth cookbook, \u2018The Daly Dish Air Fryer\u2019, Gina and Karol Daly talk about fulfilling their recipe dreams since the first food diary went viral on Instagram in 2019 and the joy their third child, born with Down syndrome, has brought amid loss and weight struggles\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cookbook authors Gina and Karol Daly with their three-year-old son Gene. Photo: Paddy Kirk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1 Karol_ Colour_04.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)\">Cookbook authors Gina and Karol Daly with their three-year-old son Gene. Photo: Paddy Kirk<\/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)\">Gene Daly sits up at the table with us as we talk about his parents\u2019 latest cookbook, The Daly Dish Air Fryer, and the whirlwind that has been the last five years of Gina and Karol\u2019s lives. Gene recently started playschool near their home in Co Meath, but he\u2019s home today, a bit under the weather, while his teenage siblings, Holly and Ben, are at school. He\u2019s cheerful nonetheless and full of smiles, passing dinosaurs to Gina and Karol and I as we chat, taking a chocolate chip cookie from the plate and licking it comprehensively before deciding he\u2019d like a Danish instead.<\/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)\">It is fitting that three-year-old Gene is at the heart of a conversation that covers all the highs and lows of their recent years, which includes a miscarriage, the death of Gina\u2019s dad, struggles with body image and the all-too-common trap of taking care of everyone but yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of their fourth cookbook, \u2018The Daly Dish Air Fryer\u2019, Gina and Karol Daly talk about fulfilling their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,4746,65432],"class_list":{"0":"post-108153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-life-magazine","13":"tag-sarah-caden"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}