{"id":213828,"date":"2025-06-25T18:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213828\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T18:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:35:11","slug":"laois-woman-celebrates-41st-birthday-battling-rare-genetic-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213828\/","title":{"rendered":"Laois Woman Celebrates 41st Birthday Battling Rare Genetic Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 25 June 2025 18:38\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/685c340913ad3.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Emma has recessive dystrophic EB.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A Laois woman is celebrating beating the current life expectancy with a severe genetic disorder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abbeyleix&#8217;s Emma Fogarty is the longest-surviving person battling recessive dystrophic EB.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She is celebrating her 41st birthday, having received over 2,000 birthday wishes compiled in a book.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last October, Emma marked her 40th birthday by taking part in the Irish Life Dublin Marathon alongside Colin Farrell, who pushed her for the final 4km. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ms Fogarty says she&#8217;s trying to look at the bright side of the challenges she faces:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 25 June 2025 18:38 Emma has recessive dystrophic EB. A Laois woman is celebrating beating the current&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3846],"tags":[9455,16786,267,16790,16787,3611,16785,16783,16784,12,16788,9440,70,16,15,16789],"class_list":{"0":"post-213828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-broadcast","9":"tag-broadcasting","10":"tag-genetics","11":"tag-irish-news","12":"tag-laois","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-local-radio","15":"tag-midlands","16":"tag-midlands-103","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-offaly","19":"tag-radio","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-westmeath"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114745450855640380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}