Any Wineport in a storm for Patrick and Helen
■ How do movie stars celebrate their birthdays? Depends on the movie star, of course. Patrick Bergin — who in 1991, Newsweek magazine talked of as the next Sean Connery — has never been one for the shallow trappings of fame.
Last Tuesday to mark his 69th birthday, he and his gorgeous girlfriend Helen Goldin visited the religious centre at Clonmacnoise, Co Offaly.
“We had a great time,” Helen told me, adding that the previous day, her beau Bergin, as a new ambassador for Toyota, “collected his new Toyota Hybrid Camry and drove to Wineport Lodge and Spa near Athlone where we were graciously hosted by the lovely owners Ray and Jane Byrne.”
Lest we forget, the first Irish actor to star in a $100m film — as the obsessive tormentor of Julia Roberts in Sleeping with the
Enemy — first joined the Goldin Circle in the summer of 2017 when he began seeing green-eyed Helen of Mitchelstown.
Since then, they’ve been inseparable.
As such, they’ve been spotted everywhere from charity lunches at the Shelbourne (like Helen’s
VBF Miriam Ahern’s CARI Summer Lunch) to dinner at Red Bank on Duke Street, to name but a few places that the glamorous duo has been seen.
I’m told that Patrick, who is originally from Mourne Road in Drimnagh, and has a fine singing voice, has been known to sing to Helen (whose greatgrandmother was Lady Catherine Louisa Moore Morgan) at dinners and the like.
And why not?
Love’s young dream aside, Patrick and Helen have become one of the nation’s most stylish couples.
As a friend of Helen’s revealed when they started seeing each other: “Helen has been on her own for almost 10 years since she lost her soulmate Paul”
— in reference to famous hypnotist Paul Goldin, who passed away in 2008.
“She is very social but no one has entered her life until Mr Bergin came along. It is romantic. Dating is something teenagers do. But they are definitely smitten with each other.”
They are definitely hypnotised by each other now.