{"id":494203,"date":"2026-06-11T11:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494203\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:56:09","slug":"tv-star-eric-surprises-nephew-oisin-with-amazing-balamory-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494203\/","title":{"rendered":"TV star Eric surprises nephew Oisin with amazing &#8216;Balamory&#8217; gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Roberts has surprised his nephew Oisin with a once-in-a-lifetime trip to visit the cast of his favourite TV show Balamory.<\/p>\n<p>Television star Eric surprised Oisin with the trip to help celebrate Oisin&#8217;s 20th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Eric even managed to put in a direct phonecall to Balamory star Ms Hoolie and actress Julie Wilson as part of the surprise to Oisin.<\/p>\n<p>Carrigart lad Oisin has been a superfan of the show for many years.<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago we featured Oisin when Eric helped him to find some amazing Balamory memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p>Once again big-hearted Eric went out of his way to help Oisin.<\/p>\n<p>You can read this story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/news\/young-donegal-boys-search-for-tv-hero-sparks-outpouring-of-public-kindness-457494\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/news\/young-donegal-boys-search-for-tv-hero-sparks-outpouring-of-public-kindness-457494<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Roberts has surprised his nephew Oisin with a once-in-a-lifetime trip to visit the cast of his favourite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-494203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494203","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=494203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}