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<\/p>\nHe blacked out on his way to a gig after experiencing symptoms<\/p>\n
10:55, 16 Feb 2026Updated 10:59, 16 Feb 2026<\/p>\n
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Country music singer Michael English has revealed he suffered a heart attack last week. The 46-year-old never suspected something like that would happen to him as he is in good shape.<\/p>\n
The health scare occurred while he was on his way to a gig in Waterford and began to feel unwell<\/a>. “It was a shock – at 46, I didn’t think it would happen to me,” he said. “Leaving the house I didn’t feel 100 per cent, I felt a bit weak or tired in myself and I’d been off for three days, which was unusual for me.<\/p>\n “We stopped on the journey to get diesel and at that I point I asked [manager] Bryan would he mind driving. We were about 20 minutes from Waterford and when we resumed the journey I blacked out in the passenger seat. Bryan didn’t know what was happening and I can only imagine how scary it was for him. But he got me to the hospital as quick as he could.”<\/p>\n Michael received medical attention at University Hospital Waterford and the Hermitage Clinic in Dublin and has since been told he can go back to work.<\/p>\n Even so, suffering a heart attack came as a shock to the country star. “Thankfully I didn’t need surgery,” he told The Sunday World. “I’m on some medication and will be having more cardiac tests when my heart gets a chance to recover, but I feel great now, it’s as if nothing had happened.<\/p>\n “But it has been a shock to the system and a shock to everyone. I never smoked and I’m a moderate drinker. I’m in good shape and I certainly don’t carry any weight.<\/p>\n “I’m known in the business for working a lot. I’m often described as ‘the busiest act in country’ so I probably need to address that.”<\/p>\n The singer says he will now take more time to focus on his health and wellbeing on his days off, the Irish Mirror<\/a> reports.. Michael added: “You have one body and one heart and you should look after your health and get regular check-ups. Men, in particular, are not good at that. But it could save your life.”<\/p>\n Want to see more of the biggest and breaking stories from Cork Beo? Making us your preferred source on Google<\/a> means you\u2019ll get more of our exclusives, top stories and must-read content straight away. To add Cork Beo as a preferred source, simply click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He blacked out on his way to a gig after experiencing symptoms 10:55, 16 Feb 2026Updated 10:59, 16…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,86040,61,60],"class_list":["post-302104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-health-and-wellbeing","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302104","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=302104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}