{"id":48876,"date":"2025-09-07T09:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T09:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/48876\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T09:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T09:19:09","slug":"we-went-every-friday-we-handled-it-as-if-it-was-our-day-out-at-vincents-hotel-for-a-cocktail-how-patrick-bergin-and-his-wife-helen-goldin-got-through-her-cancer-treatme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/48876\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We went every Friday. We handled it as if it was our day out, at Vincent\u2019s Hotel. For a cocktail!\u2019: How Patrick Bergin and his wife Helen Goldin got through her cancer treatment"},"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\">\nThe actor on how meeting Helen gave him a new lease of life and how he put his hellraising days behind him on the advice of a Pogue\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patrick Bergin is a proud man of faith. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Patrick Bergin  111.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)\">Patrick Bergin is a proud man of faith. Photo: Mark Condren<\/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\u2019s a long way to Tipperary. It\u2019s even longer when you\u2019re lost. The old farmer I meet on the tractor on a backroad somewhere between Cloughjordan and Nenagh has never heard of \u00adPatrick Bergin. \u201cHe\u2019s a movie star and he lives in a castle around here?\u201d he wonders, squinting through the late summer sun on the back of his tractor. \u201cMaybe ask at the next farm through the crossroads&#8230;\u2019\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)\">There is no one about that I can see and Google Maps is sending me towards Offaly in circles along roads with no signs Miraculously, I spot a road sign and \u00adembark up a long road. Eureka, there it is \u2013 Patrick Bergin\u2019s home, built circa 1649.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The actor on how meeting Helen gave him a new lease of life and how he put his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4747,18,117,19,17,36193],"class_list":{"0":"post-48876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-barry-egan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-shane-macgowan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48876","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=48876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}