{"id":660534,"date":"2026-10-20T16:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/660534\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:58:11","slug":"offaly-woman-launches-app-to-connect-people-affected-by-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/660534\/","title":{"rendered":"Offaly Woman Launches App To Connect People Affected By Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Tuesday, 20 October 2026 14:32\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ad76c883e1b5e78ed3.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Vanessa Mooney created the &#8220;Someone Like Me, Your Cancer Community&#8221; app.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A Midlands cancer survivor is using a new app to bring people affected by the disease together and help them connect with others.<\/p>\n<p>Tullamore&#8217;s Vanessa Mooney, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2019, created the &#8220;Someone Like Me, Your Cancer Community&#8221; app, which has so far been downloaded over 200 times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The app is designed to support people at every stage of their cancer journey, including those living with secondary or metastatic cancer and undergoing ongoing treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is currently being trialled at St Vincent\u2019s University Hospital in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>The Offaly woman says families are connecting with each other:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 20 October 2026 14:32 Vanessa Mooney created the &#8220;Someone Like Me, Your Cancer Community&#8221; app. A Midlands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660535,"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-660534","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\/660534","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=660534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}