{"id":312851,"date":"2026-01-31T06:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T06:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/312851\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T06:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T06:17:16","slug":"president-catherine-connolly-tells-ballybunion-event-shed-like-to-live-here-in-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/312851\/","title":{"rendered":"President Catherine Connolly tells Ballybunion event she&#8217;d like to live here in Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/president-of-ireland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">President of Ireland<\/a> Catherine Connolly has told an event in Ballybunion that she would love to live here in Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>She was speaking at \u2018What if We Were Brilliant\u2019, a celebration event to mark the culmination of a community-led, climate action initiative by the <a href=\"https:\/\/brilliantballybunion.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brilliant Ballybunion<\/a> group.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last two years, the initiative has focused on growing food, being creative, and protecting nature, and was funded through the Creative Climate Action Fund.<\/p>\n<p>500 people packed into a sold-out T\u00ednte\u00e1n Theatre in Ballybunion for the event, during which the President and Minister Patrick O\u2019Donovan were presented with a book and reflective learning brief by the group.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees were treated to music, short films, and a panel discussion about the project, which inspired President Catherine Connolly to make this remark:<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Arts, Culture, Communications, Media and Sport, Patrick O&#8217;Donovan, said the world would be a far better place if everyone did their bit like the Brilliant Ballybunion group.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The President of Ireland Catherine Connolly has told an event in Ballybunion that she would love to live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,152491,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-312851","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-catherine","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","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\/115988256761765961","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312851","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=312851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}