{"id":405263,"date":"2026-04-18T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/405263\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:47:09","slug":"tommy-tiernan-makes-his-musical-debut-but-the-real-question-is-can-he-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/405263\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Tiernan makes his musical debut. But the real question is: can he sing?"},"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\">\n\u2018The House Must Win\u2019 Review: Chat-show host appears alongside stellar cast in Mick Flannery\u2019s wonderful show\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tommy Tiernan and Tabitha Smyth in 'The House Must Win'. Photo: Ruth Medjber\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3e984c25-e9f9-44a1-b392-605bd2b0ada5.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)\">Tommy Tiernan and Tabitha Smyth in &#8216;The House Must Win&#8217;. Photo: Ruth Medjber<\/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)\">The burning question of whether Tommy Tiernan can sing was answered at the world premiere of The House Must Win in the Pavilion Theatre, D\u00fan Laoghaire, on Friday night. <\/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)\">Cork singer-songwriter Mick \u00adFlannery, who wrote the script and music and produced the show, had confessed in an interview with this newspaper last month that he hadn\u2019t heard him sing when he cast the chatshow host in his very first musical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018The House Must Win\u2019 Review: Chat-show host appears alongside stellar cast in Mick Flannery\u2019s wonderful show Tommy Tiernan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,16393],"class_list":["post-405263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tommy-tiernan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405263","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=405263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}