{"id":750133,"date":"2026-02-08T07:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/750133\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T07:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:54:14","slug":"is-it-time-to-hang-up-the-boots-ciaran-hinds-on-growing-up-in-belfast-ditching-a-law-degree-and-his-big-break-as-a-panto-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/750133\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Is it time to hang up the boots?\u2019: Ciaran Hinds on growing up in Belfast, ditching a law degree, and his big break as a panto horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nNI screen legend in fine form as he prepares to accept lifetime IFTA award after 50 years in showbiz\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ciar\u00e1n Hinds\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1cfc403f-202f-4a68-9aa9-a2f73570c5fe.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ciar\u00e1n Hinds<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Northern Ireland\u2019s brightest cinematic star wryly admits his upcoming lifetime achievement award is bittersweet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In less than two weeks\u2019 time, Belfast\u2019s favourite son <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/tag\/ciaran-hinds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ciaran Hinds<\/a> will be honoured by the Irish Film &amp; Television Academy (IFTA) at the 2026 ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NI screen legend in fine form as he prepares to accept lifetime IFTA award after 50 years in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[199139,1144,16,15],"class_list":["post-750133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-ciaran-hinds","tag-northern-ireland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116033936980675781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}