{"id":253101,"date":"2025-11-09T13:26:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253101\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T13:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:26:20","slug":"gerard-mccarthy-troubles-love-story-trespasses-lures-west-belfast-actor-back-to-tv-after-10-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253101\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerard McCarthy: Troubles love story Trespasses lures west Belfast actor back to TV after 10 years away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Hollyoaks and Fall star Gerard McCarthy couldn\u2019t say no after seeing big names attached to new Channel 4 drama\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gerard McCarthy and his Trespasses co-star Lisa Dwyer Hogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4a62ba34-0601-4a0b-9eb0-a42d8dfeca05.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Gerard McCarthy and his Trespasses co-star Lisa Dwyer Hogg<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A west Belfast actor who stepped away from the job to focus on writing has told how he was lured back to the small screen by the new Channel 4 drama Trespasses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Gerard McCarthy\u2019s return to TV comes almost 10 years after his appearance in The Fall and 20 years after he started out on Hollyoaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollyoaks and Fall star Gerard McCarthy couldn\u2019t say no after seeing big names attached to new Channel 4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1334,96,59,56,54,55,27741],"class_list":["post-253101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-belfast","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-west-belfast-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}