{"id":409675,"date":"2026-03-29T07:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/409675\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:56:10","slug":"i-cried-the-whole-way-home-after-leaving-him-in-the-nursing-home-actor-una-crawford-obrien-on-the-toll-of-her-husbands-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/409675\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I cried the whole way home after leaving him in the nursing home\u2019 \u2013 actor Una Crawford O\u2019Brien on the toll of her husband\u2019s dementia"},"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\">Fair City star tells Barry Egan about the emotional impact of realising her husband, fellow actor Bryan Murray, needed the care of others when his Alzheimer\u2019s deteriorated\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774770970_607_video.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)\">Living the Long Goodbye<\/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)\">On the wall of her Rathgar kitchen are a series of pictures of a baby. It is Sorcha, Una Crawford O\u2019Brien\u2019s late child.<\/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)\">It was her birthday on March 15. She would have been 36 this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fair City star tells Barry Egan about the emotional impact of realising her husband, fellow actor Bryan Murray,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[4747,434,18,117,36398,19,17,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-409675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-barry-egan","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-fair-city","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-rte"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116311398098761335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409675","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=409675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}