{"id":92692,"date":"2025-09-29T13:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/92692\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:55:07","slug":"babies-and-ballgowns-limerick-meets-hollywood-in-a-special-fundraising-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/92692\/","title":{"rendered":"Babies and ballgowns: Limerick meets Hollywood in a special fundraising event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE BRUREE Rockhill Film Awards had their own plot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/309\/politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">twist<\/a> with Bruree native Rois\u00edn Cussen taking home the Oskar for Best Female Actor less than a fortnight after bringing home her newborn baby, Se\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p>The awards, launched to raise money for the community\u2019s sports field, involved locals starring in excerpts of popular movies and TV shows.<\/p>\n<p>Rois\u00edn was immediately on board, and found herself getting cast as Lizzie Shelby from Peaky Blinders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/deaths\/1902481\/a-secret-giver-limerick-locksmith-for-60-years-had-keys-to-people-s-hearts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8216;A secret giver&#8217;: Limerick locksmith for 60 years had keys to people&#8217;s hearts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the information evening, to the auditions, to filming itself, Rois\u00edn said there was \u201ca great kind of excitement and buzz\u201d throughout the process.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having no acting experience &#8211; and being in her third trimester while filming &#8211; Rois\u00edn described the experience as \u201cso positive,\u201d adding that it was an \u201camazing\u201d way for the community to come together.<\/p>\n<p>With her due date being so close to the night of the screening, Rois\u00edn had been unsure she\u2019d make the big night, but was \u201cdelighted\u201d that, in the end, she was able to.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE BRUREE Rockhill Film Awards had their own plot twist with Bruree native Rois\u00edn Cussen taking home the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[36123,889,18,117,19,17,1844],"class_list":{"0":"post-92692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bruree","9":"tag-county-limerick","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-limerick"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92692","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=92692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}