{"id":391017,"date":"2026-04-10T04:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391017\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T04:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:05:15","slug":"listen-back-what-makes-crocus-so-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391017\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen back: What makes Crocus so special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting in a cul-de-sac just off the Hospital Hill in Monaghan Town, is the Crocus building.<\/p>\n<p>The peer support group started off with just three members, and has grown upwards of three hundred members.<\/p>\n<p>Crocus provides support to people who are living with a cancer diagnosis, at various different stages of their cancer journey.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, it has had a profound impact on families throughout Co. Monaghan, and has firmly established itself within the community.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the supports provided by Crocus include complementary therapies and treatments, as well as mind-body workshops, counselling and psychotherapy services, and a transport service.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Maiti\u00fa Monaghan paid them a visit to try and figure out what makes Crocus so special.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sitting in a cul-de-sac just off the Hospital Hill in Monaghan Town, is the Crocus building. The peer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[173363,93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-391017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-crocus","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391017","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=391017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}