{"id":177843,"date":"2025-12-06T07:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T07:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177843\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T07:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T07:09:09","slug":"darragh-nelson-i-just-said-i-dont-care-if-you-have-to-take-the-arm-i-just-want-this-cancer-out-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177843\/","title":{"rendered":"Darragh Nelson: \u2018I just said, I don\u2019t care if you have to take the arm. I just want this cancer out of me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFormer Dublin footballer Darragh Nelson has been through radiotherapy, two rounds of chemotherapy, and now he is undergoing immunotherapy after being diagnosed with a rare sarcoma three years ago. The Ballyboden St Enda\u2019s man is still fighting the good fight supported by friends, family and clubmates\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Darragh Nelson and his family have been navigating some very tough times in recent years but they remain deeply grateful for the support of others during his cancer battle.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/95024df1-133f-4ced-86bd-5e988e95934e.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)\">Darragh Nelson and his family have been navigating some very tough times in recent years but they remain deeply grateful for the support of others during his cancer battle.<\/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)\">Darragh Nelson pulls a small brown diary from his coat pocket and picks a page at random.<\/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)\">\u2018Chemotherapy. Cycle two. Day one:\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Dublin footballer Darragh Nelson has been through radiotherapy, two rounds of chemotherapy, and now he is undergoing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7277,2179,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-177843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-conor-mckeon","9":"tag-dublin-gaa","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177843","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=177843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}