{"id":372664,"date":"2026-03-30T08:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T08:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372664\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T08:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T08:23:09","slug":"podcaster-terence-power-i-got-this-shooting-pain-at-the-side-of-my-face-into-my-jaw-and-teeth-it-was-excruciating-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372664\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcaster Terence Power: \u2018I got this shooting pain at the side of my face, into my jaw and teeth. It was excruciating immediately\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\">After beating drug addiction, Terence Power went on to co-host a hugely popular podcast with fellow Dubliner Calvin O\u2019Brien \u2013 then came a life-changing diagnosis. Here, he talks about having brain surgery and becoming a father in the space of a few months, and the need to protect crucial amenities in the inner city against redevelopment\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Terence Power, co-host of the 'Talking B****x' podcast. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iw Terence Power_8.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)\">Terence Power, co-host of the &#8216;Talking B****x&#8217; podcast. Photo: Mark Condren<\/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 reads like the plot of a young adult novel: kid from impoverished environment beats his drug addiction and goes on to become one of the darlings of Ireland\u2019s thriving podcast scene.<\/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)\">If you were to tell Terence Power a decade ago that he would banish his demons and become the host of an award-winning podcast, he would have enquired what variety of hard drug you were on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After beating drug addiction, Terence Power went on to co-host a hugely popular podcast with fellow Dubliner Calvin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,280],"class_list":{"0":"post-372664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-john-meagher"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372664","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=372664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}