{"id":101590,"date":"2017-04-04T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T11:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/138.68.162.213\/?p=101590"},"modified":"2017-04-04T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T11:07:07","slug":"pics-well-known-faces-step-focus-ireland-charity-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/gallery\/pics-well-known-faces-step-focus-ireland-charity-lunch-101590","title":{"rendered":"PICS: Well-known faces step out for the Focus Ireland Charity lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geisha Restaurant in Malahide was packed to capacity over the weekend\u00a0for the 2nd Annual Focus Ireland Charity lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Well-known faces including Alan Hughes and Karl Broderick attended the event, which was organised to raise funds for Focus Ireland, which helps homeless families throughout Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Also spotted was Roz Flanagan, Aisling Holly,\u00a0Berni Cafolla and Joan Palmer &#8211; while Sonya Lennon was the master of ceremonies and compere for the fashion show.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-101596\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/storage.goss.ie\/media.goss.ie\/uploads\/2017\/04\/04115320\/Focus-Ireland-lunch-52-579x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><strong>Loved-up: Alan Hughes and Karl Broderick stepped out for the lunchtime event in Malahide | BRIAN MCEVOY<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-101591\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/storage.goss.ie\/media.goss.ie\/uploads\/2017\/04\/04115307\/Focus-Ireland-lunch-30-1024x715.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"715\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><strong>Girls day out: Roz Flanagan , Aisling Holly, Jeanette Sung and Joan Palmer sipped on champagne at the charity lunch | BRIAN MCEVOY<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Organisers Joyce Clegg and Donna Lynam announced on the day that they will be taking the event nationwide in 2017, hosting similar events in Cork,Waterford &amp; Kildare in support of the Focus Ireland charity shops &#8220;Beloved&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Guests on the day enjoyed a champagne reception, followed by a three-course meal, fashion show, pop up shop, mini auction and a bumper raffle.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainment continued into the evening with music by Judith McMahon and Karl Flood.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-101592\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/storage.goss.ie\/media.goss.ie\/uploads\/2017\/04\/04115310\/Focus-Ireland-lunch-22-462x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><strong>Fashionista: Sonya Lennon looked stylish in blue | BRIAN MCEVOY<\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charitable guests flocked to Malahide <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":101594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[679,2269,455],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}