{"id":311615,"date":"2026-02-22T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311615\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:29:10","slug":"guggis-recovery-from-a-brain-aneurysm-and-the-new-documentary-about-his-life-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311615\/","title":{"rendered":"Guggi\u2019s recovery from a brain aneurysm and the new documentary about his life and art"},"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\">Guggi on surviving an aneurysm, his religious upbringing, and life long friendship with Bono\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Artist Guggi and his partner Gabriella Janni pictured in his Killiney studio.  Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/b725b486-4b26-4fde-b4b7-8f96252a8b3a.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)\">Artist Guggi and his partner Gabriella Janni pictured in his Killiney studio.  Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/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)\">One night in 2021, Guggi knew something was very wrong. He and wife Gabriella had been having a \u201cdate night\u201d \u2013 a phrase he loathes \u2013 and had had a bit to drink.<\/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)\">\u201cIt just stopped at the top of my head,\u201d Guggi says. \u201cIt\u2019s really weird and it\u2019s really serious.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guggi on surviving an aneurysm, his religious upbringing, and life long friendship with Bono Artist Guggi and his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26016,29575,615,93,61,60,6992,660],"class_list":{"0":"post-311615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bono","9":"tag-donal-lynch","10":"tag-dublin","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-people-culture-magazine","15":"tag-u2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311615","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=311615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}