Finnian Garbutt

🇮🇪 Actor / VO artist

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Acting rep @_jag_london

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Ryan in #HopeStreet

Living life with stage 4 #cancer

[Finnian Garbutt @FinnianGarbutt]

Delighted to make my Lyric debut in Romeo and Juliet this Feb. Get your tickets!
Wouldn't have been possible without the @_jag_london team 💙✌️

[Lyric Theatre Belfast @LyricBelfast]

Next on our cast list for #RomeoAndJuliet are actors Eugene Evans and Finnian Garbutt taking the roles of Paris and Benvolio. Can you think of any great lines these characters might speak on our main stage this spring?

Tickets available to book now 🎟️: https://t.co/NeTxU51z1X

[Rebecca Perrotto @rebeccaperrotto]

Shared because it’s so truthful. 😔

I Hope

I hope you never have to hear the words,“Your child has cancer.”

I hope you never have to hear,“The prognosis is not good.”

I hope you never have to prepare for your child to undergo radiation or chemotherapy, have a port surgically inserted into their chest, or be connected to IV poles. Look at you with fear in their eyes and say,“Don’t worry Mommy, everything will be okay.”

I hope you never have to hold your child as they vomit green bile.

I hope you never have to feed them ice chips for lunch.

I hope you never have to watch the “cure” you pray for slowly take away their identity, as they lose their hair, become skeletal, swell up from steroids, develop severe acne, become barely or unable to walk or move, and look at you with hope in their eyes and say, “It’s going to be okay, Mommy”

I hope you never have to stay in the hospital for weeks, months, or years at a time, where there is no privacy, sleeping on a slab, with your face to the wall, where you cry in muffled silence.

I hope you never have to see a mother, alone, huddled, in a dark hospital corridor…crying quietly, after just being told, “There is nothing more we can do.”

I hope you never have to watch a family wander aimlessly, minutes after their child’s body has been removed.

I hope you never have to use every bit of energy you have left, with all of this going on around you to remain positive, and the feelings of guilt, sorrow, hope and fear, overwhelm you.

I hope you never have to see a child’s head bolted to the table as they receive radiation.

I hope you never have to take your child home (grateful but so afraid) in a wheelchair because the chemo and radiation has damaged their muscles, 35 pounds lighter, pale, bald and scarred. And they look at you with faith in their eyes and say, “It’s going to be okay, Mommy.”

I hope you never have to face the few friends that have stuck beside you and hear them say,“Thank God that is over with,”…because you know it never will be. Your life becomes a whirl of doctors, blood tests and MRI’s and you try to get your life back to“normal”. While living in mind-numbing fear that any one of those tests could result in hearing the dreaded words…“The cancer has returned” or “The tumor is growing” And your friends become even fewer.

I hope you never have to experience any of these things…

Because…only then…Will you understand…

Author: Carol Baan

[Finnian Garbutt @FinnianGarbutt]

Damn thanks for the chat
@arielhelwani @connerburks @NewYorkRic @PetesyCarroll

[Finnian Garbutt @FinnianGarbutt]

@connerburks @connerburks salsa boyyyyyy

[Finnian Garbutt @FinnianGarbutt]

Salsa boyyyyyy #UFCQatar

[Conner Burks @connerburks]

how I'm sleeping tonight knowing charles oliveira is back in the win column

[Matchroom Boxing @MatchroomBoxing]

WOW! EUBANK SNR IS HERE! 😵

#EubankBenn

[BritBox US @BritBox_US]

Something to be thankful for, a brand new season of #HopeStreet! #BritBox

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

A close up of a longhorn beetle's face

[Finnian Garbutt @FinnianGarbutt]

@rosie_valandro Thank you so much!! 🇦🇺

[BritBox US @BritBox_US]

November already?! Here's what's coming to #BritBox. #Sherwood #HopeStreet #UntilIKillYou

[Chuck Mindenhall @ChuckMindenhall]

It comes for everyone. New piece on James Vick, who had UFC success, a fall off, and then a big scare. Now he's at that place that all fighters dread. https://t.co/DCnZlj9qk7

[Finnian Garbutt @FinnianGarbutt]

@ChuckMindenhall Great article

[Finnian Garbutt @FinnianGarbutt]

@SpinninBackfist @connerburks the vanilla gorilla appearing outta nowhere #goat #chasesherman

[Stephen Patterson @mr_sjpatterson]

Hope Street series 3 review: BBC drama comes back fighting as higher stakes make for its best season yet

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https://t.co/Rd9RlKvKXi

[BritBox Australia @BritBox_AUS]

Autumn is arriving and so are these titles 🍂 Which one are you looking forward to streaming? #BritBoxAus

[Finnian Garbutt @FinnianGarbutt]

Disgraceful

[Amanda Ferguson @AmandaFBelfast]

NEW statement: NI CHILDRENS’ HOSPICE ANNOUNCES SERVICE CHANGES The NI Children’s Hospice is to reduce its beds capacity due to a loss of government funding.
While the reduction is deeply regrettable and may potentially incur a decrease in staff numbers and a new working model, the long term sustainability of the service will be safeguarded and the number of children and families being supported will remain unaffected.
The organisation is consulting with families who may be impacted and staff who may potentially be affected.
Grace Stewart, Acting Director of Children’s Hospice Service, says she profoundly regrets having to implement any reduction in capacity.
“This decision, led by the need to ensure the long-term sustainability of our service, will impact bed numbers and availability. Given the loss of government funding for one of our beds, our intention is to run 6 beds Monday to Friday and 3 beds Saturday and Sunday: this is a change from our 7 Beds, 7 Nights model.”
“Despite these challenges, our unwavering commitment to supporting children and their families remains,” says Ms Stewart.
NI Children’s Hospice currently provides care for more than 350 children and their families each year.

[Finnian Garbutt @FinnianGarbutt]

@micktheejit Sending strength to you mate. Keep on keeping on. Hope you're alright.

[Michael Patrick @micktheejit]

“And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”

Just say it: "I'm the artistic director, I want to play Richard"

In unrelated news: I haven't had one audition since becoming a wheelchair user.

[Janice Bunting @JABunting]

Hope Street tackling coercive controlling behaviour and reminding those watching that such behaviour is a crime. Great to see a NI programme tackling this issue. Remember don’t suffer in silence help is always available @VictimSupportNI @MensAdvisoryP @dsahelpline @BBCnireland