{"id":211354,"date":"2025-12-02T12:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/211354\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:45:13","slug":"a-true-national-treasure-how-richie-kavanagh-turned-childhood-sketches-into-a-lifetime-of-laughter-and-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/211354\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A true national treasure\u2019 \u2013 How Richie Kavanagh turned childhood sketches into a lifetime of laughter and song"},"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\">As he marks 30 years of \u2018Aon Focal Eile\u2019, the Carlow entertainer reflects on the humour, hardship and inspiration behind his extraordinary career\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Richie Kavanagh pictured with his new book 'Richie Kavanagh: Craic, Stories &amp; Songs'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9f7551b8-5cb1-4427-95b6-5666d9cdaada.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)\">Richie Kavanagh pictured with his new book &#8216;Richie Kavanagh: Craic, Stories &amp; Songs&#8217;<\/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)\">Ever since he was a small child, Richie Kavanagh knew he was destined to entertain.<\/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)\">The kitchen table in his childhood home in Raheenwood, near Fenagh in Co Carlow was not just a place where meals were shared. It also doubled as Richie\u2019s first stage as he performed songs for his family, dancing around the odd piece of cutlery left over from dinner time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As he marks 30 years of \u2018Aon Focal Eile\u2019, the Carlow entertainer reflects on the humour, hardship and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[15381,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-211354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-aisling-bolton-dowling","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115650044145291224","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211354","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=211354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}