{"id":235425,"date":"2026-01-09T04:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/235425\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T04:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:08:20","slug":"offaly-sees-second-highest-flu-rate-in-ireland-over-festive-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/235425\/","title":{"rendered":"Offaly Sees Second Highest Flu Rate In Ireland Over Festive Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Thursday, 8 January 2026 15:36\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5f750706c1402.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Laois was the least affected county with the flu.\n        <\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Offaly recorded the second highest number of flu cases in Ireland last week over the festive period.<\/p>\n<p>The latest figures from the HSE shows there were 95 confirmed cases per 100,000 people in the county.<\/p>\n<p>Westmeath follows at 84.2, with the average national number standing at just 39.8.<\/p>\n<p>While Laois managed to avoid this year&#8217;s surge, recording the lowest figure at just 3.3 per 100,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 8 January 2026 15:36 Laois was the least affected county with the flu. Offaly recorded the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-235425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235425","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=235425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}