{"id":129908,"date":"2025-11-09T05:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/129908\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T05:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:21:11","slug":"wicklow-campaigner-urges-rethink-of-irelands-six-month-limit-on-assisted-dying-eligibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/129908\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicklow campaigner urges rethink of Ireland\u2019s six-month limit on assisted dying eligibility"},"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\">Tom Curran made his call after meeting with politicians in Australia. He has urged the Irish government not to make the same mistakes they have\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arklow resident and assisted dying campaigner Tom Curran. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/db8e250f-f2a6-4609-a922-8a53dfadb8f4.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)\">Arklow resident and assisted dying campaigner Tom Curran. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/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)\">Having met with Australian parliamentarians in Switzerland to discuss the challenges their assisted dying laws have faced, Wicklow campaigner Tom Curran has highlighted how Ireland risks repeating the same legislative mistakes if it were to adopt restrictive time frames for citizens to qualify.<\/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)\">Arklow resident Tom was recently invited to the Australian embassy in Bern to speak with a six-member delegation of parliamentarians visiting Europe to study how the long-standing Swiss assisted dying system operates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Curran made his call after meeting with politicians in Australia. He has urged the Irish government not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5718,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-129908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-eoin-mac-raghnaill","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}