{"id":230038,"date":"2026-01-06T08:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/230038\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:13:09","slug":"my-dad-gave-me-a-health-check-as-a-gift-for-christmas-and-it-may-have-saved-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/230038\/","title":{"rendered":"My dad gave me a health check as a gift for Christmas \u2013 and it may have saved my life"},"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\">Denis Dwyer, a 44-year-old filmmaker and author living in Co Wicklow, on his battle with prostate cancer and being inspired by his father Dermod\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Denis Dwyer. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/881d1aab-8c63-4cb8-b971-6dd9a8ecfc32.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)\">Denis Dwyer. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/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)\">We all remember an experience when we\u2019ve been stopped in our tracks unexpectedly. The moment when you get a call or receive news that you didn\u2019t see coming, and which turns your world upside down.<\/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 Christmas 2024, I received the present of a health check from my Dad, a present that quite possibly saved my life. This was my unexpected moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denis Dwyer, a 44-year-old filmmaker and author living in Co Wicklow, on his battle with prostate cancer and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[77748,42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-230038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-daily-features","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230038","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=230038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}