'We went every Friday. We handled it as if it was our day out, at Vincent's Hotel. For a cocktail!': How Patrick Bergin and his wife Helen Goldin got through her cancer treatment

"It's a long way to Tipperary. It's even longer when you're lost. The old farmer I meet on the tractor on a backroad somewhere between Cloughjordan and Nenagh has never heard of ­Patrick Bergin. "He's a movie star and he lives in a castle around here?" he wonders, squinting through the late summer sun on the back of his tractor. "Maybe ask at the next farm through the crossroads...'""

"The actor on how meeting Helen gave him a new lease of life and how he put his hellraising days behind him on the advice of a Pogue 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 ­embark up a long road. Eureka, there it is - Patrick Bergin's home, built circa 1649."

Patrick Bergin credits meeting Helen with giving him a new lease of life and says he ended his hellraising days after taking advice from a Pogue. A narrator travels through Tipperary, gets lost between Cloughjordan and Nenagh, and encounters an old farmer who has never heard of Patrick Bergin. Local directions fail and Google Maps misleads the narrator toward Offaly. After spotting a sign, the narrator follows a long road and discovers Bergin's home, a house built circa 1649, described as a castle in the countryside.

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