{"id":287104,"date":"2026-02-08T10:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287104\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T10:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:06:11","slug":"barry-egan-talks-to-grammy-award-winning-singer-songwriter-cian-ducrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287104\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Egan talks to Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Cian Ducrot"},"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\">\nCian Ducrot shares how music and the love of his mother got him through a turbulent childhood and set him on the path to winning a Grammy Award\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grammy award-winning Cian Ducrot is bringing his Dream Ship tour to Ireland in July. Photo: Ruth Medjber\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/otobyRuthMedjber__5.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)\">Grammy award-winning Cian Ducrot is bringing his Dream Ship tour to Ireland in July. Photo: Ruth Medjber<\/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)\">Five years ago, The Mind Map website asked Cork singer songwriter Cian Ducrot to complete this sentence: \u201cGreat mental health for me means\u2026\u201d \u201cFeeling all the emotions of the human condition,\u201d he answered. \u201cThere\u2019s too much focus on sadness and it being bad, but I believe all emotions are the key to the human condition.\u201d<\/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)\">From the lows of a turbulent childhood to the highs of selling out arenas and winning a Grammy Award for songwriting, Ducrot has certainly experienced a gamut of emotions in his 28 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cian Ducrot shares how music and the love of his mother got him through a turbulent childhood and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3265,6282,8720,93,61,60,6361,6116],"class_list":{"0":"post-287104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-3arena","9":"tag-barry-egan","10":"tag-ed-sheeran","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-life-magazine","15":"tag-tiktok"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287104","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=287104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}