{"id":289156,"date":"2026-02-09T18:32:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289156\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:32:47","slug":"electric-car-trouble-and-search-for-vegan-food-lead-hollywood-actor-to-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289156\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric car trouble and search for vegan food lead Hollywood actor to Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STAFF and customers at a Limerick city caf\u00e9 had an unexpected brush with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/234\/arts-entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hollywood<\/a> on Sunday when actor Woody Harrelson made an impromptu stop after the electric car he was travelling in ran low on power.<\/p>\n<p>Woody and his driver pulled into the Green Yard Caf\u00e9 and Punch\u2019s Bar on New Street after his electric Porsche began to run short of battery.<\/p>\n<p>His driver did a Google search for vegan restaurants in Limerick, and the Green Yard Caf\u00e9 was the first one to appear.<\/p>\n<p>A member of staff said the actor had been travelling from Northern Ireland and was en route to Killarney.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/arts---entertainment\/2009103\/revealed-the-three-irish-celebrities-who-star-in-taylor-swift-s-new-music-video.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">REVEALED: The three Irish celebrities who star in Taylor Swift&#8217;s new music video<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1470\" data-end=\"1735\">Woody, who is a long-time vegan and environmental campaigner, ordered a Buddha bowl and potatoes from the caf\u00e9\u2019s menu. While there, he took time to chat with customers and staff, posing for photographs with around 25 to 30 people.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1470\" data-end=\"1735\">Woody follows a raw vegan diet and was named PETA&#8217;s Sexiest Vegetarian in 2012 along with\u00a0Jessica Chastain.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1737\" data-end=\"1910\">\u201cHe was good craic,\u201d the staff member said. \u201cHe was happy enough to be on his way. He didn&#8217;t mind going and taking the photos, he was always waving at everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1912\" data-end=\"2083\">Before leaving, Woody went behind the bar, poured a pint, and began singing the theme song, &#8216;Where Everybody Knows Your Name,\u2019 from the television series Cheers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1912\" data-end=\"2083\">He also\u00a0signed the back of a receipt, saying, &#8220;Green Yard Cafe, love ya, Woody Harrelson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1912\" data-end=\"2083\">Woody first became known for his role as bartender\u00a0Woody Boyd\u00a0on the\u00a0sitcom\u00a0Cheers, for which he won a\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STAFF and customers at a Limerick city caf\u00e9 had an unexpected brush with Hollywood on Sunday when actor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12430,93,61,60,44],"class_list":["post-289156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-emmy","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289156","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=289156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}