{"id":439959,"date":"2026-05-09T07:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/439959\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:07:07","slug":"around-80000-take-part-in-darkness-into-light-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/439959\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 80,000 take part in Darkness Into Light events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 80,00 people are expected to take part in Darkness Into Light events around Ireland and across the world today.<\/p>\n<p>There are 170 walks, mostly in Ireland, for the fundraising event for Pieta House, the suicide intervention charity.<\/p>\n<p>The first walk was at Bondi Beach in Australia and the last will be in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An outline of DIL 2026 in lights\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/00245640-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe largest event took place in the Phoenix Park this morning<\/p>\n<p>Around 10,000 people walked and ran 5 kilometres around the Phoenix Park in Dublin, the biggest of the events which start before dawn.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraiser, which also includes sailing and kayaking events, is expected to raise beween \u20ac3m and \u20ac4m for Pieta House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 80,00 people are expected to take part in Darkness Into Light events around Ireland and across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-439959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439959","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=439959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}