{"id":106,"date":"2008-03-24T22:48:13","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T03:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/?p=106"},"modified":"2008-03-24T22:48:13","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T03:48:13","slug":"ted-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/2008\/03\/24\/ted-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Fest!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we’ve had so many Father Ted<\/a> video’s I thought I should mention Ted Fest<\/a>!<\/p>\n

We have photographs<\/a> from the Ray Foley Show. A review<\/a> from the Englush Independent newspaper. And a slideshow<\/a> from the Guardian newspaper, along with news coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Scores of apparently inebriated priests, the odd pope and cigarette-puffing nuns converged on Inis Mor off the west coast of Ireland at the weekend. They mingled with a multitude of aspiring Mrs Doyles.<\/p>\n

The clerical collars and dubious habits were for the first ever Father Ted festival, convened to perpetuate the Channel 4 sitcom. The main attraction was staged yesterday afternoon on the foreshore inside Kilronan Harbour, where two five-a-side football teams – one from Inis Mor, the other from nearby Inis Oirr – competed to win their island the title of Craggy Island, Father Ted’s fictional parish. Crowds in dog collars and wimples cheered the game, which was won 2-0 by Inis Mor. The Irish betting firm Paddy Power had taken bets on the outcome as well as on the festival’s Lovely Girls contest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we’ve had so many Father Ted video’s I thought I should mention Ted Fest! We have photographs from the Ray Foley Show. A review from the Englush Independent newspaper. And a slideshow from the Guardian newspaper, along with news coverage. Scores of apparently inebriated priests, the odd pope and cigarette-puffing nuns converged on Inis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,88,318],"tags":[457,453,455,1926,452,454,458,451,456,459,1928,95,1932],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuns","category-priest","category-religion","tag-arse","tag-dougle","tag-down-with-this-sort-of-thing","tag-drink","tag-father","tag-father-dougle","tag-father-jack","tag-father-ted","tag-feck","tag-jack","tag-nuns","tag-ted","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}