Colin Farrell is navigating a difficult loss.

The Penguin actor's dad Eamon Farrell, who played on the Shamrock Rovers pro soccer team in the 1960s, died April 9 in Dublin, Ireland. He was 83.

Eamon “passed peacefully, after a long illness bravely borne, in the loving care of his family and the excellent staff of the Whitworth Ward, Beaumont Hospital" in Dublin, according to a death notice posted to the Irish Times Group's website RIP.ie.