{"id":429830,"date":"2026-04-10T21:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/429830\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T21:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:17:12","slug":"pictures-much-loved-limerick-artist-has-an-80th-birthday-party-with-a-difference-page-1-of-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/429830\/","title":{"rendered":"PICTURES: Much-loved Limerick artist has an 80th birthday party with a difference! &#8211; Page 1 of 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IF LIFE imitates art then young-at-heart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Limerick<\/a> artist Barbara Hartigan had the perfect \u201ckids-style\u201d 80th birthday party.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 much-loved Castleconnell lady didn\u2019t want a big fuss so her family surprised her with a party in Supermac\u2019s, Ballysimon Road.\u00a0 Husband Leslie, four children &#8211; Shane, Clare, Erin, Tara &#8211; and her grandchildren all kept the party a closely-guarded secret.<\/p>\n<p>Supermac\u2019s has special memories for Barbara and Leslie from Covid times when everyone was making the best of a difficult time. They drove there weekly for take-away fish and chips and meet up with friends in a campervan when restrictions were eased.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara had a blast at her party and even had a special guest in Pat McDonagh, owner of Supermac&#8217;s. He said he was honoured to attend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is heartening to know it has become a much-loved place for her grandchildren as well. Many special family memories have been created there over the years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe extend our warmest wishes to Barbara on her milestone birthday and hope the occasion brings lasting memories for years to come.\u201d said Mr McDonagh.<\/p>\n<p>For more pictures, click &#8216;Next&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IF LIFE imitates art then young-at-heart Limerick artist Barbara Hartigan had the perfect \u201ckids-style\u201d 80th birthday party. The\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[45480,18,117,19,17,7587],"class_list":["post-429830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-castleconnell","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-city"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116382495472798690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429830","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=429830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}