{"id":636230,"date":"2026-08-14T05:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/636230\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T05:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:01:29","slug":"did-you-see-the-solar-eclipse-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/636230\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you see the solar eclipse? \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A NEAR-TOTAL ECLIPSE took place on Wednesday evening and thousands of people across Ireland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/liveblog-solar-eclipse-excitement-build-up-ireland-7128623-Aug2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gathered to watch it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>People watched from all over Ireland and other parts of Europe, with many gathering at locations such as Phoenix Park in Dublin and Queen\u2019s University Belfast to get a good view of the phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>In the run-up to the big event, special eclipse glasses needed to view it safely were in high demand. So much so, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/solar-eclipse-glasses-dublin-7128461-Aug2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hundreds of people queued outside Designist on Dublin\u2019s George\u2019s Street<\/a> to get their hands on the last few available pairs.<\/p>\n<p>Now that it\u2019s all over, we want to know: <strong>Did you see the solar eclipse?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NEAR-TOTAL ECLIPSE took place on Wednesday evening and thousands of people across Ireland gathered to watch it.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[270],"tags":[582,663,52,18,19,17,10475,7931,133,26730,451,13593,7932],"class_list":["post-636230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-astronomy","tag-belfast","tag-dublin","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-phoenix-park","tag-poll","tag-science","tag-solar-eclipse","tag-space","tag-the-daily-poll","tag-your-say"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117092109172894469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636230","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=636230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}