{"id":149151,"date":"2025-10-28T07:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/149151\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T07:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:42:09","slug":"larry-tompkins-its-a-one-in-five-million-cancer-i-might-be-the-only-one-in-ireland-to-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/149151\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Tompkins: \u2018It\u2019s a one in five million cancer. I might be the only one in Ireland to have it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nCork football legend on his fight with and recovery from \u2018one-in-five-million\u2019 form of lung disease\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cork legend Larry Tompkins with his Hall of Fame award at the Gaelic Writers' Association Awards, supported by Dalata Hotel Group at the Clayton Hotel in Ballsbridge and, right,  lifting Sam Maguire in 1990. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/c44dc7e2-9256-4015-a5ba-1b686b31f87d.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)\">Cork legend Larry Tompkins with his Hall of Fame award at the Gaelic Writers&#8217; Association Awards, supported by Dalata Hotel Group at the Clayton Hotel in Ballsbridge and, right,  lifting Sam Maguire in 1990. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">A couple of weeks back when the weather was mild and dry, Larry Tompkins did something he and almost everyone else takes for granted \u2013 he cut the grass.<\/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)\">It was a milestone, the first time in a long time. And a sign to him of some progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork football legend on his fight with and recovery from \u2018one-in-five-million\u2019 form of lung disease Cork legend Larry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[25558,24,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-149151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-colm-keys","9":"tag-cork-gaa","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115450671645283417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149151","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=149151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}