{"id":236816,"date":"2026-01-09T22:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/236816\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:52:16","slug":"ruth-medjbers-life-stories-pat-barrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/236816\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Medjber\u2019s life stories: Pat Barrett"},"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\">\nIn a year-long project, photographer Ruth Medjber is asking 365 ordinary people to share their extraordinary tales. Here, she meets Pat Barrett, who speaks eloquently about his late mother, Mary Theresa\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pat Barrett photographed by Ruth Medjber for the series, Sin Sc\u00e9al Eile.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/thMedjber_landscape.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)\">Pat Barrett photographed by Ruth Medjber for the series, Sin Sc\u00e9al Eile.<\/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)\">I meet Pat Barrett in the Gravediggers pub in Dublin on what was supposed to be a quiet afternoon, but I don\u2019t think that pub ever has a quiet spell. I\u2019ve known Pat for over 22 years. We first met while working in a record store on Henry Street. We sit in the snug, get a round in and chat like it\u2019s old times.<\/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)\">Pat is what I\u2019d always describe as a good egg. An old soul, kind and compassionate. Pat has had an exciting career as a musician, he has travelled the world and has recently gotten married, so I\u2019m surprised that it\u2019s his mother\u2019s story he wishes to share today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a year-long project, photographer Ruth Medjber is asking 365 ordinary people to share their extraordinary tales. Here,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6361],"class_list":["post-236816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236816","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=236816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}