{"id":56801,"date":"2025-08-14T20:30:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=56801"},"modified":"2025-08-14T20:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:30:03","slug":"legends-of-our-lifetime-flo-mcsweeney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=56801","title":{"rendered":"Legends of our Lifetime &#8211; Flo McSweeney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orla Diamantino is joined by singer, actor, and TV presenter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCaKcpkm-0zBuNdKYJ8sNOIA\">Flo McSweeney<\/a> who talks about a difficult summer at age 13 which ended with the realisation that she could actually sing. The face of 1980s Irish pop TV, fronting RT\u00c9 shows <span class=\"italic\">TV Gaga<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"italic\">Megamix, has great stories to tell about her tours around the world with bands<\/span> including Moving Hearts, A Certain Ratio and The Commitments. Flo\u2019s easy, down-to-earth chat is full of humility, while her joy at this stage of her life shines through.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Legends Of Our Lifetime - Flo Mcsweeney\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fnearfm%2Flegends-of-our-lifetime-flo-mcsweeney%2F&amp;hide_cover=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media; fullscreen; autoplay; idle-detection; speaker-selection; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-56802 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-202427-300x280.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-202427-300x280.png 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-202427-768x716.png 768w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-202427-118x110.png 118w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-202427-75x70.png 75w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-202427-370x345.png 370w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-202427-474x442.png 474w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-202427.png 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orla Diamantino is joined by singer, actor, and TV presenter Flo McSweeney who talks about a difficult summer at age 13 which ended with the realisation that she could actually sing. The face of 1980s Irish pop TV, fronting RT\u00c9 shows TV Gaga\u00a0and\u00a0Megamix, has great stories to tell about her tours around the world with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":56045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[27416,27415,19005,26218,27417,23924],"class_list":["post-56801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listenagain","tag-a-certain-ratio","tag-flo-mcsweeney","tag-moving-hearts","tag-orla-diamantino","tag-picture-in-a-frame","tag-the-commitments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56803,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56801\/revisions\/56803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}