{"id":117401,"date":"2025-11-02T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/117401\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T09:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:12:09","slug":"how-dj-carey-tried-and-failed-to-tap-phil-hogan-for-cash-in-fake-cancer-ploy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/117401\/","title":{"rendered":"How DJ Carey tried \u2013 and failed \u2013 to tap Phil Hogan for cash in fake cancer ploy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Phil Hogan asked for proof that DJ Carey needed money for cancer treatment. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SN Hogan.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Phil Hogan asked for proof that DJ Carey needed money for cancer treatment. Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p>Maeve Sheehan and Ali Bracken<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Former EU commissioner Phil Hogan was among the figures tapped by DJ Carey for cash for bogus cancer treatment \u2014 and one of the few the hurler failed to hoodwink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mr Hogan, a former Fine Gael minister, was approached by Carey in 2021, according to a new book that charts the Kilkenny sportsman\u2019s fall from grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Hogan asked for proof that DJ Carey needed money for cancer treatment. Photo: PA Maeve Sheehan and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-117401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}