{"id":303555,"date":"2026-01-25T22:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/303555\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T22:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:53:11","slug":"tom-vaughan-lawlor-i-could-never-work-with-my-wife-the-idea-of-being-mean-or-cruel-to-her-i-couldnt-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/303555\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Vaughan-Lawlor: \u2018I could never work with my wife \u2013 the idea of being mean or cruel to her, I couldn\u2019t do it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nSet to hit our screens as Father Vincent in RT\u00c9\u2019s comedy-drama series \u2018These Sacred Vows\u2019, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor shares why he could relate to the character, his midlife anxieties and what keeps him grounded\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;Acting is also an artform and because the profession is so mad, you have got to protect your calling against the madness of the profession. That is a job in itself \u2013 not have the weight of the madness of the profession overwhelm you. You have to think about your mental health&quot; - Tom Vaughan-Lawlor. Photo: Ruth Medjber\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769381591_310_edb38fc2-9ff6-406a-a506-ddf52c5caa46.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8220;Acting is also an artform and because the profession is so mad, you have got to protect your calling against the madness of the profession. That is a job in itself \u2013 not have the weight of the madness of the profession overwhelm you. You have to think about your mental health&#8221; &#8211; Tom Vaughan-Lawlor. Photo: Ruth Medjber<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Tom Vaughan-Lawlor married Claire Cox in September 2010 in London. At the wedding, his younger sister Sadbh said in her speech: \u201cHis only friends growing up were books.\u201d It is not still the case. \u201cMy wife brought me out of myself,\u201d he says. \u201cClaire is very, very kind. She just coaxes me out. My inclination is to be at home reading. She is charismatic and she lures me out to, well, socialise. I join her in that, sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The stage and screen actor admits that he finds it quite difficult to go to screenings and other public parts of \u2018the job\u2019. \u201cIt is that duality of standing on stage or standing in front of the camera and then at the same time when you are in your own privacy you are with yourself and that is a different reality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Set to hit our screens as Father Vincent in RT\u00c9\u2019s comedy-drama series \u2018These Sacred Vows\u2019, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor shares&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4747,26674,18,117,19,17,4746,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-303555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-barry-egan","9":"tag-brendan-gleeson","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-life-magazine","15":"tag-rte"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115958199242917245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}