{"id":360794,"date":"2026-03-23T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360794\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:28:10","slug":"you-need-to-probably-prepare-yourself-for-the-notion-that-youll-be-broke-mick-flannery-on-his-parents-reaction-to-his-career-choice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360794\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You need to probably prepare yourself for the notion that you\u2019ll be broke\u2019: Mick Flannery on his parents\u2019 reaction to his career choice"},"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\">The musician is working with Tommy Tiernan on a new musical\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The House Must Win is a gritty new musical drama by Mick Flannery, pictured in Galway. Photo: Ray Ryan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774265290_359_340b5f1a-706e-45e9-ab17-22e7ee44dcd9.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)\">The House Must Win is a gritty new musical drama by Mick Flannery, pictured in Galway. Photo: Ray Ryan<\/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)\">We know he can act, do stand-up and host his own chat show \u2013 but can Tommy Tiernan sing? Next month he stars in his very first musical, The House Must Win, with script and music written by 42-year-old Cork singer-songwriter Mick Flannery.<\/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)\">\u201cI haven&#8217;t heard him sing yet,\u201d Flannery confesses, in answer to the burning question, when we sit down after a rehearsal in Nuns Island theatre in Galway \u2013 a rehearsal Tiernan was not required to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The musician is working with Tommy Tiernan on a new musical The House Must Win is a gritty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,2120,61,60,6992,16393],"class_list":["post-360794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-people-culture-magazine","tag-tommy-tiernan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360794","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=360794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}