{"id":424079,"date":"2026-04-07T08:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/424079\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:21:10","slug":"niamh-oreilly-i-wish-i-could-get-a-sleep-divorce-but-we-dont-have-the-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/424079\/","title":{"rendered":"Niamh O\u2019Reilly: I wish I could get a sleep divorce, but we don\u2019t have the space"},"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\">I\u2019d love to sleep in a separate bedroom, but I\u2019m stuck beside my husband snoring like a 747 jet\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u2018My husband\u2019s snoring is like a nightly rusty chainsaw, with a bit of choking zombie thrown in.\u2019 Photo: Picture posed\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/focus.independent.ie\/thumbor\/KT96RBaNQm-f6Ces6f4MgU7LIgg=\/16x0:3238x2148\/960x640\/prod-mh-ireland\/2e25d11d-547c-4f66-a6ed-2ee8b1ce092c\/137b6272-dcbc-4f31-8cca-5dcc587dc675\/2e25d11d-547c-4f66-a6ed-2ee8b1ce092c.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)\">\u2018My husband\u2019s snoring is like a nightly rusty chainsaw, with a bit of choking zombie thrown in.\u2019 Photo: Picture posed\/Getty<\/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)\">I often wonder about the person who came up with the expression \u2018snoring like a horse\u2019.<\/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)\">Did they eventually pop their clogs from sleep deprivation or did they decide that the sounds of a giant sleeping equine was preferable over their snoring partner who, if they were anything like mine, could best be described as sounding like a nightly rusty chainsaw, with a bit of choking zombie thrown in for good measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019d love to sleep in a separate bedroom, but I\u2019m stuck beside my husband snoring like a 747&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[99378,18,117,19,17,23,81745,147476,152020],"class_list":{"0":"post-424079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-daily-features","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-latest-news-ticker","14":"tag-news-in-90-seconds","15":"tag-shp","16":"tag-signature-human-interest"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116362456888976264","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424079","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=424079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}