{"id":18264,"date":"2025-07-01T21:56:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/?p=18264"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:56:40","slug":"welcome-fr-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/welcome-fr-joe\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Fr. Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to extend a very warm Ballygall welcome to Fr. Joe McDonald who has joined our parish.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Belfast, Fr. Joe was a founder member of the Roncalli Community and has featured regularly on TV and radio discussing faith matters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He previously served in a number of Dublin parishes including Ballyfermot and Celbridge.<\/p>\n<p>We wish Fr. Joe well and hope that he is very happy here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Fr_Joe_McDonald.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18146\" src=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Fr_Joe_McDonald-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Fr_Joe_McDonald-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Fr_Joe_McDonald-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Fr_Joe_McDonald-648x432.jpg 648w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Fr_Joe_McDonald-288x192.jpg 288w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Fr_Joe_McDonald.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to extend a very warm Ballygall welcome to Fr. Joe McDonald who has joined our parish.\u00a0\u00a0 Originally from Belfast, Fr. Joe was a founder member of the Roncalli Community and has featured regularly on TV and radio discussing faith matters.\u00a0\u00a0 He previously served in a number of Dublin parishes including Ballyfermot and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/welcome-fr-joe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome Fr. Joe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18265,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18264\/revisions\/18265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}