{"id":127205,"date":"2025-11-07T17:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/127205\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T17:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:44:16","slug":"cork-actor-set-for-the-cobbles-in-new-coronation-street-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/127205\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork actor set for the cobbles in new Coronation Street role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Cork actor Aidan O\u2019Callaghan, who hails from Innishannon and attended Hamilton High School in Bandon, has joined the cast of Coronation Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This achievement makes him the first Irish actor to appear in all three major UK soaps &#8211; Coronation Street, EastEnders, and Emmerdale. He previously made history as the first and only Irish actor to appear in both Emmerdale and EastEnders.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4851171_1_articleinline_IMG_1018.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"card-img\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Aidan&#8217;s growing career also includes roles in international productions such as Netflix\u2019s The Witcher: Blood Origin, Starz\u2019s The Rook, and Sky\u2019s Wolfe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Recently back from Chicago film festival, he earned acclaim for his work opposite acclaimed Irish actress Olwen Fou\u00e9r\u00e9 in the award-winning Irish feature film The Reckoning of Erin Morrigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork actor Aidan O\u2019Callaghan, who hails from Innishannon and attended Hamilton High School in Bandon, has joined the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-127205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}