{"id":389698,"date":"2026-04-09T10:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389698\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:57:12","slug":"how-kerry-man-who-directed-hoziers-music-video-landed-job-writing-hit-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389698\/","title":{"rendered":"How Kerry man who directed Hozier\u2019s music video landed job writing hit video games"},"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\">He said Hozier, whose songs have had more than 22 billion streams, is still the same person as prior to his finding global success\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patrick Ryan, previously directed one of Hozier's music videos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_8063.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)\">Patrick Ryan, previously directed one of Hozier&#8217;s music videos<\/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)\">For someone who once directed music videos for mega-star Hozier, writing for videogames was quite the plot twist for Patrick Ryan (37).<\/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)\">But the Kerry man has become the only Irish person working on new game Zero Parades with an award-winning Estonian studio that already has a big hit to its name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said Hozier, whose songs have had more than 22 billion streams, is still the same person as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[158,93,1338,61,60,34252,6993],"class_list":{"0":"post-389698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hozier","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-melanie-finn","14":"tag-playstation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389698","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=389698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}