{"id":810,"date":"2009-07-09T10:35:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T09:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\/blog\/?p=810"},"modified":"2021-04-07T11:27:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T10:27:14","slug":"in-the-meeja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/in-the-meeja\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Meeja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/07\/Examiner-july-2009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2245\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/07\/Examiner-july-2009-600x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am still reeling from the success of the Wife Carrying in Finland, both as a competitor on the Irish Relay Team, but also as a publicity stunt for the business, we have been featured heavily in both the Irish and International Media this week and I am truely delighted with the coverage we have received.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Radio Interviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gerry Ryan (2FM, Nationwide) Friday 3rd July 2009<\/li>\n<li>Dave Mac (Red FM, Cork) Friday 3rd July 2009 &amp; Monday 6th July 2009<\/li>\n<li>Will Leahy (2FM, Nationwide) Friday 3rd July 2009<\/li>\n<li>The Spin (Spin103.8, Dublin) Monday 6th July 2009<\/li>\n<li>Neil Prenderville (96FM, Cork) Tuesday 7th July 2009<\/li>\n<li>Colm &amp; Jim Jim Breakfast Show (2FM, Nationwide) Thursday 9th July 2009<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Radio Mentions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Right Hook, George Hook (Newstalk, Nationwide) Tuesday 7th July<\/li>\n<li>Morning Ireland (Radio 1, Nationwide) Wednesday 8th July &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/20drv\">listen to clip<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gerry Ryan (2FM, Nationwide) Wednesday 8th July<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/07\/echo21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-821\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/07\/echo21-600x405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Press:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evening Echo article Thursday July 2nd (With photo)<\/li>\n<li>Evening Echo snippet Tuesday July 7th<\/li>\n<li>Irish Examiner Wednesday 8th July (with photos)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TV:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reuters (Worldwide) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/news\/video?videoId=107346\">watch clip<\/a><\/li>\n<li>BBC (UK) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8134866.stm\">watch clip<\/a><\/li>\n<li>ESPN Sports (USA) &#8211; watch clip<\/li>\n<li>The Guardian (UK) &#8211; watch clip<\/li>\n<li>3 News (NZ) &#8211; watch clip<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am still reeling from the success of the Wife Carrying in Finland, both as a competitor on the Irish Relay Team, but also as a publicity stunt for the business, we have been featured heavily in both the Irish and International Media this week and I am truely delighted with the coverage we have received. Radio Interviews: Gerry Ryan (2FM, Nationwide) Friday 3rd July 2009 Dave Mac (Red FM, Cork) Friday 3rd July 2009 &amp; Monday 6th July 2009 [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weddingdates-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81901,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/81901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}