{"id":219607,"date":"2025-12-07T04:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219607\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T04:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:34:17","slug":"cork-family-very-proud-as-they-accept-posthumous-gold-medal-for-bravery-for-their-hero-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219607\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork family \u2018very proud\u2019 as they accept posthumous gold medal for bravery for their hero father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mary O\u2019Keeffe collecting the gold medal for Callaghan \u2018Cal\u2019 O\u2019Keeffe with son John O\u2019Keeffe, daughter Marie O\u2019Keeffe, son Martin O\u2019Keeffe and Noelle O\u2019Keeffe (Maxwell Photography)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/513e9841-b5f2-460f-9478-37c2b63c3bf8.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)\">Mary O\u2019Keeffe collecting the gold medal for Callaghan \u2018Cal\u2019 O\u2019Keeffe with son John O\u2019Keeffe, daughter Marie O\u2019Keeffe, son Martin O\u2019Keeffe and Noelle O\u2019Keeffe (Maxwell Photography)<\/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)\">A son of a Cork man who was killed while saving a woman from being struck by a car said he was \u201calways interested in helping people.\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)\">Fermoy man Cal O&#8217;Keeffe was honoured yesterday with a National Bravery Gold Award at Leinster House for the heroic act which saved the life of a woman in her 70s from being hit by a car in a supermarket car park in Fermoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary O\u2019Keeffe collecting the gold medal for Callaghan \u2018Cal\u2019 O\u2019Keeffe with son John O\u2019Keeffe, daughter Marie O\u2019Keeffe, son&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,34269,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-219607","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-kevin-galvin","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115676425356200423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219607","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=219607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}