{"id":369854,"date":"2026-03-28T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/369854\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:42:10","slug":"now-its-almost-trendy-but-it-used-to-be-something-i-was-so-ashamed-of-i-would-never-talk-about-it-in-a-work-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/369854\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Now it\u2019s almost trendy, but it used to be something I was so ashamed of. I would never talk about it in a work setting\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\">With family on both sides that go back to the tenements, actor Thommas Kane Byrne fulfilled a dream when he was cast in the centenary production of Sean O\u2019Casey\u2019s The Plough and the Stars. Here, he talks about creating his own luck, no longer being ashamed about his ADHD and why authentic working-class voices matter on stage\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Actor Thommas Kane Byrne at the Abbey Theatre. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hommas Kane Byrne 4.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)\">Actor Thommas Kane Byrne at the Abbey Theatre. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/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\u2019ll never not be a hustler. I am just addicted to the graft of it all, you know what I mean?\u201d actor Thommas Kane Byrne says.<\/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)\">Kane Byrne is sitting in Pegeen\u2019s cafe in the Abbey Theatre foyer, where he is currently starring in the theatre\u2019s centenary production of Sean O\u2019Casey\u2019s The Plough and the Stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With family on both sides that go back to the tenements, actor Thommas Kane Byrne fulfilled a dream&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,9715],"class_list":["post-369854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kirsty-blake-knox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369854","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=369854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}