{"id":270028,"date":"2026-01-06T09:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270028\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:32:17","slug":"when-a-music-star-becomes-a-regular-in-your-donegal-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270028\/","title":{"rendered":"When a music star becomes a regular in your Donegal bar&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Finding a music star in your bar one night is certainly an endorsement of your establishment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But when Imelda May returns the following night, then you know you\u2019re doing something right!<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Should\u2019ve Been You\u2019 singer may have rang in the New Year on the BBC in the company of Jules Holland.<\/p>\n<p>But the Dublin singer knows there\u2019s only one place to be at the start of the New Year and that was The Forge bar in Donegal Town.<\/p>\n<p>Imelda stunned customers when she popped in a couple of days ago but she\u2019s almost a regular after calling back in the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Barman Mark Sweeney quipped \u201cShe\u2019s back. We must\u2019ve made a good impression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When a music star becomes a regular in your Donegal bar\u2026 was last modified:  January 5th, 2026 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finding a music star in your bar one night is certainly an endorsement of your establishment. But when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[40835,18,117,137829,19,129993,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-270028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-donegal-town","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-forge-bar","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-imelda-may","14":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115847465765458636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270028","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=270028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}