{"id":357670,"date":"2026-03-21T10:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357670\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T10:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:58:09","slug":"chef-eunice-power-there-is-a-sort-of-secret-club-parents-who-have-lost-children-you-dont-even-know-their-story-until-youre-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357670\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef Eunice Power: \u2018There is a sort of secret club \u2013 parents who have lost children. You don\u2019t even know their story until you\u2019re in it\u2019"},"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\">While writing her debut cookbook, the broadcaster suffered the tragic loss of her son, Jerome. Here, she talks about how community has helped her through her grief, the importance of keeping meals practical not performative, and running the festival telling Waterford\u2019s food story\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chef Eunice Power at home in Dungarvan, Co Waterford. Photo: Patrick Browne\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f99549c9-20a7-4cfc-bfed-2bbf91341aa7.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)\">Chef Eunice Power at home in Dungarvan, Co Waterford. Photo: Patrick Browne<\/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)\">\u201cNothing helps,\u201d Eunice Power says, quietly. \u201cKeeping busy distracts me a bit. But nothing helps.\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)\">It is just after 9am, and she appears on screen looking ready and relaxed: glasses on, a mug of tea in hand, smiling with the easy affability of someone already halfway into the day. There is no attempt to soften what she\u2019s saying. It\u2019s a sentence she seems to have arrived at through heartbreaking experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While writing her debut cookbook, the broadcaster suffered the tragic loss of her son, Jerome. Here, she talks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,898,128197,132860],"class_list":["post-357670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-shp","tag-signature-human-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357670","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=357670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}