{"id":209333,"date":"2025-12-01T08:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/209333\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T08:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:52:14","slug":"nobody-wants-to-believe-this-happens-fair-city-actor-kiara-noonan-on-sons-battle-with-leukaemia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/209333\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nobody wants to believe this happens\u2019 \u2013 \u2018Fair City\u2019 actor Kiara Noonan on son\u2019s battle with leukaemia"},"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\">Oscar (9) was diagnosed with leukaemia in May 2023 and has been undergoing monthly chemotherapy sessions\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kiara Noonan and her son Oscar (9) who was diagnosed with leukaemia two years ago. Photo: Irish Cancer Society\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3a2acb49-3e07-4533-9d3a-f62578cc5f67.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)\">Kiara Noonan and her son Oscar (9) who was diagnosed with leukaemia two years ago. Photo: Irish Cancer Society<\/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)\">Actor Kiara Noonan, who plays Nikki Duff on the RT\u00c9 drama Fair City, has spoken about caring for a child undergoing chemotherapy for leukaemia.<\/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)\">Ms Noonan\u2019s nine-year-old son Oscar has gone through monthly chemotherapy sessions since he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar (9) was diagnosed with leukaemia in May 2023 and has been undergoing monthly chemotherapy sessions Kiara Noonan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-209333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-keith-kelly"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115643465546845123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209333","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=209333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}