{"id":7945,"date":"2025-09-08T15:48:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/7945\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:48:21","slug":"patrick-bergin-i-loved-the-drink-to-destruction-shane-macgowan-told-me-i-was-drinking-too-much-so-i-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/7945\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Bergin: \u2018I loved the drink to destruction. Shane MacGowan told me I was drinking too much. So, I stopped\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\">\nThe actor on how meeting his wife Helen gave him a new lease of life and how he put his hellraising days behind him on the advice of a Pogue\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patrick Bergin is a proud man of faith. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757346501_935_Patrick Bergin  111.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 Bergin is a proud man of faith. 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\u2019s a long way to Tipperary. It\u2019s even longer when you\u2019re lost. The old farmer I meet on the tractor on a backroad somewhere between Cloughjordan and Nenagh has never heard of \u00adPatrick Bergin. \u201cHe\u2019s a movie star and he lives in a castle around here?\u201d he wonders, squinting through the late summer sun on the back of his tractor. \u201cMaybe ask at the next farm through the crossroads&#8230;\u2019\u201d<\/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)\">There is no one about that I can see and Google Maps is sending me towards Offaly in circles along roads with no signs Miraculously, I spot a road sign and \u00adembark up a long road. Eureka, there it is \u2013 Patrick Bergin\u2019s home, built circa 1649.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The actor on how meeting his wife Helen gave him a new lease of life and how he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6282,93,61,60,6283],"class_list":["post-7945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-barry-egan","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-shane-macgowan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945","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=7945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}