{"id":308713,"date":"2026-02-20T22:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308713\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:08:08","slug":"free-counselling-to-cancer-patients-in-sligo-and-surrounding-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308713\/","title":{"rendered":"Free counselling to cancer patients in Sligo and surrounding area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New free counselling sessions are now available for cancer patients across Sligo and surrounding areas<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Cancer Society has partnered with Sligo Cancer Support Centre to provide free counselling for cancer patients in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Funding up \u20ac68,000 will allow cancer patients, survivors and their family members to access free counselling services.<\/p>\n<p>Last year alone almost 13,000 counselling sessions were provided for free through cancer support centres across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Ocean FM news Mary Quinn believes that counselling is such an important part of someone with cancer or their loved one&#8217;s experience and being able to provide that locally is really important:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New free counselling sessions are now available for cancer patients across Sligo and surrounding areas The Irish Cancer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-308713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308713","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=308713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}