{"id":218863,"date":"2025-12-06T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/218863\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T17:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:30:16","slug":"wicklow-woman-77-still-full-of-energy-after-30-years-of-service-at-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/218863\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicklow woman (77) still \u2018full of energy\u2019 after 30 years of service at hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arklow Bay Hotel staff celebrate with Liz Doyle (centre) as she marks 30 years at the four-star hotel.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/860ca833-7e8a-4358-966e-669aec1de03f.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)\">Arklow Bay Hotel staff celebrate with Liz Doyle (centre) as she marks 30 years at the four-star hotel.<\/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)\">Thirty years after she first stepped into the Arklow Bay Hotel, 77-year-old Liz Doyle says she still has \u201clots of energy\u201d to keep going \u2014 with staff and guests hailing the long-serving Ferrybank Lounge team member as \u201calways so friendly\u201d and \u201can amazing human being\u201d.<\/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)\">After taking a temporary post at the Arklow Bay in November 1995, stepping in for a lobby cleaner who was out sick, what started as a short fill-in for Liz soon became a career that has seen her shine in a variety of roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arklow Bay Hotel staff celebrate with Liz Doyle (centre) as she marks 30 years at the four-star hotel.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,2864,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-218863","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-eoin-mac-raghnaill","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115673814040031940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218863","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=218863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}