{"id":297748,"date":"2026-02-14T12:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/297748\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:41:11","slug":"meath-man-raises-nearly-e8k-for-sosad-after-gruelling-1000km-walk-through-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/297748\/","title":{"rendered":"Meath man raises nearly \u20ac8k for SOSAD after gruelling 1,000km walk through Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: Gavin Mann\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/22971bea-bcd5-477f-8219-4af73a210b46.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)\">Photo: Gavin Mann<\/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)\">What began as an ambitious personal challenge turned into a show of endurance and community spirit, as Gavin Mann completed a 1,000km walk along Ireland\u2019s Way raising \u20ac7,868 for the charity SOSAD.<\/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)\">Gavin, originally from England but living in Brownstown, between Navan and Kentstown, initially set himself the goal of completing the cross-country journey in 35 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Gavin Mann What began as an ambitious personal challenge turned into a show of endurance and community&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,5657,43],"class_list":["post-297748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-louise-hickey","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297748","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=297748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}