{"id":307889,"date":"2026-02-20T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307889\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:09:08","slug":"irish-cancer-society-funds-free-counselling-sessions-across-midlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307889\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Cancer Society Funds Free Counselling Sessions Across Midlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 20 February 2026 10:20\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5ddd5d59bb414.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            An estimated 44,000 people in Ireland get cancer each year.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Irish Cancer Society partnered with Midlands cancer support groups to provide over 1,200 free counselling sessions last year.<\/p>\n<p>550 were provided in Westmeath, 500 in Laois and 234 in Offaly for cancer patients, survivors, and their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>The sessions were provided by D\u00f3chas Offaly Cancer Support Group, LARCC Sanctuary in Mullingar and Cuisle Centre in Laois.<\/p>\n<p>Financial support of \u20ac86,000 was distributed between the three groups in order to provide the sessions, with \u20ac21,500 to Dochas, \u20ac33,000 to Mullingar and \u20ac31,500 to Cuisle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 20 February 2026 10:20 An estimated 44,000 people in Ireland get cancer each year. The Irish Cancer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3279,319,103,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-307889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-health","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\/307889","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=307889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}