{"id":20209,"date":"2025-09-14T06:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T06:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/20209\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T06:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T06:29:08","slug":"olwen-fouere-on-caring-for-her-terminally-ill-husband-he-can-barely-move-he-cant-tell-that-leg-to-step-he-has-no-control-over-his-bodily-functions-anymore-i-have-to-feed-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/20209\/","title":{"rendered":"Olwen Fou\u00e9r\u00e9 on caring for her terminally ill husband: \u2018He can barely move, he can\u2019t tell that leg to step. He has no control over his bodily functions anymore. I have to feed him\u2019"},"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\">\nThis year, Olwen and her husband, David Heap, announced he had been diagnosed with corticobasal syndrome. It is incurable\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Olwen Fou\u00e9r\u00e9 photographed during a break in rehearsals for 'The Boy' at the Abbey theatre. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/c181d0c6-a66a-42b5-8f66-a30a619a13e8.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)\">Olwen Fou\u00e9r\u00e9 photographed during a break in rehearsals for &#8216;The Boy&#8217; at the Abbey theatre. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/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)\">The role of The Shee in \u00adMarina Carr\u2019s new play The Boy came to actress Olwen Fou\u00e9r\u00e9 at a time when she was turning down most \u00adtheatre work.<\/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)\">\u201cI don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve read about my partner being very ill,\u201d she says to me. We\u2019re sitting in a small room within a rehearsal space at the Liberties\u2019 Digital Hub. \u201cI\u2019d been offered three or four different plays in England and here, and I just turned them all down because I thought I can\u2019t take that time out unless I absolutely, absolutely have to do that show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year, Olwen and her husband, David Heap, announced he had been diagnosed with corticobasal syndrome. It is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-20209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20209","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=20209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}