{"id":470927,"date":"2026-05-06T08:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/470927\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:11:11","slug":"kilkenny-man-home-with-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/470927\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilkenny man home with Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Some local people have been getting up close with one of the biggest prizes in the film world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stoneyford native Colbert Fennelly worked on \u2018Avatar: Fire and Ash\u2019 which took the Academy Award for Visual Effects earlier this year, the team also picking up one for the earlier offering of the franchise in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>On a visit home, he\u2019s stopped off at a number of schools and communities with the Oscar statuette \u2013 stay tuned for more in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Colbert-Fennelly-with-Edwina-Grace-and-Oscar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-321511\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Colbert-Fennelly-with-Edwina-Grace-and-Oscar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"408\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some local people have been getting up close with one of the biggest prizes in the film world.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[154260,73460,206600,18,117,19,17,1328,337,76132,206601,169956],"class_list":{"0":"post-470927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-academy-award","9":"tag-avatar","10":"tag-colbert-fennelly","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-kilkenny","16":"tag-music","17":"tag-oscar","18":"tag-statuette","19":"tag-stoneyford"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116526624751324083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470927","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=470927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}