{"id":148166,"date":"2025-10-27T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148166\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:49:11","slug":"diy-sos-the-big-build-ireland-gives-wicklow-boy-with-cerebral-palsy-his-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148166\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY SOS: The Big Build Ireland gives Wicklow boy with cerebral palsy his independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Ferguson family of Wicklow town, including Kyle, his parents Mary and Thomas, twin sister Sophie, older brother Evan and his much-loved assistance dog, Kaz.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/108f9427-3539-4281-be36-d10510ba9b65.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)\">The Ferguson family of Wicklow town, including Kyle, his parents Mary and Thomas, twin sister Sophie, older brother Evan and his much-loved assistance dog, Kaz.<\/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)\">The nation watched last night as the lives of a Wicklow family with a teenage son with cerebral palsy were completely transformed when volunteers led by RTE\u2019s DIY SOS: The Big Build Ireland rebuilt their home.<\/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)\">Kyle Ferguson (17) lives in Wicklow town with his parents Mary and Thomas, twin sister Sophie, older brother Evan and his much-loved assistance dog, Kaz, and he primarily uses a wheelchair to get about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ferguson family of Wicklow town, including Kyle, his parents Mary and Thomas, twin sister Sophie, older brother&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,8549],"class_list":{"0":"post-148166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-myles-buchanan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115447396359981370","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}