{"id":217056,"date":"2025-12-29T22:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/217056\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T22:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:47:08","slug":"i-was-in-my-swimming-togs-in-paradise-and-the-doctor-was-talking-about-chemo-today-fms-declan-pierce-on-his-breast-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/217056\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was in my swimming togs in paradise and the doctor was talking about chemo\u2019 \u2013 Today FM\u2019s Declan Pierce on his breast cancer battle"},"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\">In the space of just two years, Pierce has had a brain haemorrhage and breast cancer\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Declan Pierce at Kaleidoscope Festival in 2025. Photo: Glen Bollard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Photo 28_06_20241 21 06 28.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)\">Declan Pierce at Kaleidoscope Festival in 2025. Photo: Glen Bollard<\/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)\">Declan Pierce was sitt\u00ading on a plastic lilo, soaking up the sun on the first day of his holiday in Spain when his phone rang. He was keeping a watchful eye on his eight-year-old daughter playing by the pool when his doctor called \u2014 to tell him he had cancer.<\/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)\">For the second time in less than two years, his world stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the space of just two years, Pierce has had a brain haemorrhage and breast cancer Declan Pierce&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,59303,112709,6083,47179],"class_list":{"0":"post-217056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-living-with-cancer","12":"tag-mater-private-hospital","13":"tag-niamh-horan","14":"tag-today-fm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217056","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=217056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}