{"id":428186,"date":"2026-05-02T05:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/428186\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T05:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:32:09","slug":"how-a-laois-man-47-is-enjoying-a-new-lease-of-life-following-heart-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/428186\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Laois man (47) is enjoying a &#8216;new lease of life&#8217; following heart failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Following a diagnosis of heart failure and a subsequent heart transplant, Nicholas Hines from Co Laois describes his recovery as life-changing.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/67b2072b-6af0-43b3-b848-26f98c2ae18a.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)\">Following a diagnosis of heart failure and a subsequent heart transplant, Nicholas Hines from Co Laois describes his recovery as life-changing.<\/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)\">Laois man Nicholas Hines is highlighting the importance of early diagnosis as he takes on a \u201cnew lease of life\u201d after suffering heart failure.<\/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)\">Nicholas is 47-years-old and had a heart transplant after a stroke in 2020 revealed he had serious cardiac problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a diagnosis of heart failure and a subsequent heart transplant, Nicholas Hines from Co Laois describes his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,5657],"class_list":["post-428186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-louise-hickey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428186","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=428186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}