{"id":593285,"date":"2026-07-19T09:34:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/593285\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T09:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:34:45","slug":"national-wax-museum-to-unveil-new-sinead-oconnor-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/593285\/","title":{"rendered":"National Wax Museum To Unveil New Sin\u00e9ad O&#8217;Connor Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 17 July 2026 16:32\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/64c202a997c63.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The waxwork figure will be unveiled next week.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The National Wax Museum has announced a new waxwork figure of Sinead O&#8217;Connor will be unveiled next week.<\/p>\n<p>The singer died in 2023 and the museum first launched a waxwork the following year, which received backlash due to the lack of resemblance to the icon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Owner of the museum, Westmeath&#8217;s Paddy Dunning says he was disappointed at the time that the piece did not meet their high standards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was the first and last person to record her music at Grouse Lodge Studios in Westmeath, before her passing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 17 July 2026 16:32 The waxwork figure will be unveiled next week. The National Wax Museum has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[19870,19869,18,117,19,17,19872,11763,3136,19868,3172,19867,337,5,3171,5485,19871],"class_list":["post-593285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-music","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116945962181626962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593285","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=593285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}