{"id":156894,"date":"2025-11-01T10:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T10:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/156894\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T10:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T10:03:09","slug":"at-night-time-its-like-a-thriller-movie-how-residents-of-wicklow-village-with-nothing-in-it-still-find-a-way-to-believe-in-its-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/156894\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018At night time it\u2019s like a thriller movie\u2019 &#8211; How residents of Wicklow village \u2018with nothing in it\u2019 still find a way to believe in its magic"},"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\">In this postcard-pretty Wicklow village, locals are stepping up to fill the gaps \u2014 proving that while shops may close and pubs change, community endures<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ian Boucher of OhSo cafe,in Enniskerry.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BP Enniskerry2.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)\">Ian Boucher of OhSo cafe,in Enniskerry.<\/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)\">When the owner of the cafe in the heart of Enniskerry village opened seven years ago, he probably didn\u2019t foresee that a day would come when he would have to stock milk, eggs, rashers, sausages and even newspapers alongside his dainty little Portuguese tarts and gourmet rolls.<\/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)\">He had taken over the premises after a sorrowful end to the story of Magpie Books, whose cosy bookstore had that endearing pop-up charm about it, but struggled to find enough readers. In January 2018, the keys were handed over to Ian Boucher to allow him write the next chapter of the prime vacant unit opposite the village clock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this postcard-pretty Wicklow village, locals are stepping up to fill the gaps \u2014 proving that while shops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,9273,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-156894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-tom-galvin","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115473875407865326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156894","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=156894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}