{"id":589940,"date":"2026-07-17T06:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/589940\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T06:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:04:27","slug":"fundraiser-launched-to-help-laois-teen-injured-in-e-scooter-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/589940\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraiser Launched To Help Laois Teen Injured in E-Scooter Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Thursday, 16 July 2026 16:41\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a58fba16e7e23887fd.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo credit: Go Fund Me<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Orla Keogh is starting the fundraiser for her nephew Thomas.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A fundraiser is being launched to support a Laois teen who was critically injured in an e-scooter accident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>13-year-old Thomas Crean Keogh from Portlaoise, was involved in the incident last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has undergone multiple major surgeries and remains in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>His aunt, Orla Keogh, created the fundraising campaign to help the family cover hospital accommodation and household expenses.<\/p>\n<p>The family faces ongoing financial pressure while caring for Thomas and his three brothers during his recovery.<\/p>\n<p>People are being encouraged to donate to help the family.<\/p>\n<p>You can donate to the Go Fund Me<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-towards-thomas-and-hes-family\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 16 July 2026 16:41 Photo credit: Go Fund Me Orla Keogh is starting the fundraiser for her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,19870,19869,18,13,14,6,19,17,19872,11763,11,12,3136,19868,15,16,3172,19867,5,3171,5485,7,8,19871],"class_list":["post-589940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-westmeath"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116933812500412930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589940","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=589940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}