{"id":232903,"date":"2026-01-07T20:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/232903\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T20:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:14:07","slug":"keegan-reveals-hes-been-diagnosed-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/232903\/","title":{"rendered":"Keegan reveals he&#8217;s been diagnosed with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former England and Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan has been diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old was recently admitted to hospital after presenting abdominal symptoms and tests have shown he has the disease for which he is undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from Keegan&#8217;s family, shared by Newcastle, read: &#8220;Kevin Keegan was recently admitted to hospital for further evaluation of ongoing abdominal symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These investigations have revealed a diagnosis of cancer, for which Kevin will undergo treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kevin is grateful to the medical team for their intervention and ongoing care.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During this difficult time, the family are requesting privacy, and will be making no further comment.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England and Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan has been diagnosed with cancer. The 74-year-old was recently admitted to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-232903","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232903","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=232903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}