{"id":341354,"date":"2025-08-13T14:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341354\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:24:15","slug":"spirit-of-northern-ireland-young-carer-visits-lord-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341354\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit of Northern Ireland Young Carer visits Lord Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"549\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Young-Carer-Alex-Cooper-01-696x549.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Alex Cooper\"\/>Lord Mayor of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Alderman Stephen Moutray congratulates 18 year old Alex Cooper from Portadown, who received a Spirit of Northern Ireland, Young Carer Award for his care of his young brother Zach, a pupil at Ceara School, Lurgan.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Cooper from Richhill paid a visit to the Mayor\u2019s Parlour, Craigavon to show the Lord Mayor, Alderman Stephen Moutray his recently won Spirit of Northern Ireland Young Carer Award.<\/p>\n<p>Alex (18) helps care for his younger brother Zach who attends Ceara School in Lurgan and the Lord Mayor was delighted to congratulate him on this special award.<\/p>\n<p>Also present with Alex were his parents Carol and David, along with siblings Zach, Dylan, Ollie and Maddie.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Young-Carer-Alex-Cooper-02-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\"  \/>Lord Mayor of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Alderman Stephen Moutray hosted Alex Cooper from Portadown, who received a Spirit of Northern Ireland, Young Carer Award and his family at a reception in Craigavon Civic Centre. They are his parents, Carol and David, brothers, Dylan, Ollie, Zach and sister Maddie. Included is Councillor Julie Flaherty who proposed the reception.<\/p>\n<p>                        Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armaghbanbridgecraigavon.gov.uk\/date-for-your-diary-culture-in-the-park-saturday-13-september-lurgan-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Date for your diary: Culture in the Park \u2013 Saturday 13 September, Lurgan Park!<\/a>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armaghbanbridgecraigavon.gov.uk\/prestigious-charles-wood-festival-of-music-and-summer-school-underway-in-armagh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prestigious Charles Wood Festival of Music and Summer School Underway in Armagh<\/a>            \t                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lord Mayor of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Alderman Stephen Moutray congratulates 18 year old Alex Cooper from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-341354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115021917128285411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}