{"id":278979,"date":"2026-01-11T07:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/278979\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T07:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:56:09","slug":"michelle-doherty-on-the-loss-of-her-father-co-parenting-with-her-ex-and-watching-bondi-shooting-unfold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/278979\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Doherty on the loss of her father, co-parenting with her ex and watching Bondi shooting unfold"},"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\">\nThe model on the loss of her dad, the end of her relationship, and starting to date again\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Presenter Michelle Doherty on Doagh Strand in Donegal. Photo: Joe Dunne\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SF MICHELLE005.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)\">Presenter Michelle Doherty on Doagh Strand in Donegal. Photo: Joe Dunne<\/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)\">Michelle Doherty has almost come to the end of her trip home to Donegal for Christmas the day we talk. The former Xpos\u00e9 host and \u00adradio DJ, who still models, is in her sister\u2019s house. On the bed beside her is a pile of clothes that have been loaned for the pictures being taken for this piece.<\/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)\">It\u2019s been a \u201cweird\u201d Christmas, she admits. It is the first for her family since her beloved father Sean died of cancer in August last year. She stayed at home in Bondi, Sydney, to be with her 11-year-old son Max until Christmas night, before heading for Ireland and arriving in Malin the next day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The model on the loss of her dad, the end of her relationship, and starting to date again&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,26596,23942],"class_list":{"0":"post-278979","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-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-liadan-hynes","13":"tag-people-culture-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115875400035542483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278979","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=278979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}