{"id":155142,"date":"2025-10-31T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/155142\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:11:07","slug":"richard-boyd-barrett-given-all-clear-following-treatment-for-throat-cancer-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/155142\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Boyd Barrett given all-clear following treatment for throat cancer \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

People Before Profit-Solidarity<\/a> TD Richard Boyd Barrett<\/a> says his treatment for throat cancer has been \u201csuccessful\u201d and the disease had been \u201celiminated\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Boyd Barrett said on Friday he had undergone a scan in the past week that confirmed his treatment for throat cancer had been a success. <\/p>\n

\u201cI got a scan in the last week or so which says the treatment has been successful and has eliminated the cancer,\u201d he told RT\u00c9 Radio 1\u2019s Claire Byrne show. <\/p>\n

\u201cI will have to be monitored closely, check-ups every three months for the next five years but they are saying it\u2019s worked. It\u2019s as good a result for the treatment I got as you can get.\u201d<\/p>\n

The D\u00fan Laoghaire TD said the treatment had been \u201charsh\u201d and that side effects were substantial but he would slowly start easing himself back into work. <\/p>\n

Mr Boyd Barrett stepped back from political life in April to undergo treatment after revealing he had been diagnosed with throat cancer. <\/a><\/p>\n

He said at the time he would undergo a course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, adding that the form of cancer is \u201ccurable … I\u2019ve a good chance\u201d.<\/p>\n

He was told eight or nine of every 10 patients with this type of cancer recover, he said. However, he admitted the diagnosis had been a \u201chuge shock\u201d but was \u201cheartened by the confidence of the doctors\u201d. <\/p>\n

Mr Boyd Barrett said he noticed a lump on his neck in October 2024 during last year\u2019s general election campaign and had it investigated before Christmas.<\/p>\n

He was operated on to have his tonsils removed and a biopsy was performed on tissue, which revealed the cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n

He said he had been told that the cancer has spread to his lymph nodes, but no further and that he expected to take three to four months off work. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe doctors were adamant that I was not to work,\u201d he said at the time. Former People Before Profit-Solidarity TD Br\u00edd Smith helped in his office during his absence.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to explain it because if I just disappeared, people, the constituents who elected me, would be wondering where I\u2019m gone, so I wanted to do them the service of telling them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people who voted for People Before Profit deserve to know if I\u2019m not around. And I just want to stress, I plan to be back as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Richard Boyd Barrett on his cancer treatment: \u2018It is going to be very difficult to eat. That is what worries me most\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Mr Boyd Barrett has been a TD for D\u00fan Laoghaire since 2011, and is the parliamentary leader of the People Before Profit-Solidarity group.<\/p>\n

One of the D\u00e1il\u2019s most outspoken TDs, he is a familiar critic of the Government on the airwaves on a range of issues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People Before Profit-Solidarity TD Richard Boyd Barrett says his treatment for throat cancer has been \u201csuccessful\u201d and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,110,23898,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,90612,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-155142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cancer","11":"tag-claire-byrne","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-richard-boyd-barrett","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115468480254793028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155142","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=155142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}