{"id":201427,"date":"2025-11-26T15:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/201427\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:55:11","slug":"rte-star-miriam-ocallaghan-says-unmitigated-disaster-with-van-morrison-left-her-mortified-and-in-tears-i-totally-blame-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/201427\/","title":{"rendered":"RTE star Miriam O&#8217;Callaghan says \u2018unmitigated disaster&#8217; with\u00a0Van Morrison left her \u2018mortified\u2019 and\u00a0in tears: \u2018I totally blame myself\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Broadcaster says she has only herself to blame for getting off on wrong foot during her second interview down in Dublin\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Van Morrison and Miriam O'Callaghan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/39a61d12-cf32-4ad9-a436-8b84a02b9272.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)\">Van Morrison and Miriam O&#8217;Callaghan<\/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)\">Irish broadcaster Miriam O\u2019Callaghan has revealed an interview with her musical hero Van Morrison went so badly it couldn\u2019t be aired and left her in tears.<\/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)\">The RTE presenter said it was the second time she had sat down with the legendary Belfast singer-songwriter and the two meetings were worlds apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broadcaster says she has only herself to blame for getting off on wrong foot during her second interview&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,52,18,117,19,17,1181,26706],"class_list":{"0":"post-201427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-rte","15":"tag-van-morrison"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115616817460589516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201427","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=201427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}