{"id":209966,"date":"2025-12-25T08:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T08:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209966\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T08:35:11","slug":"meet-the-kerry-midwife-delivering-bundles-of-joy-over-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209966\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Kerry midwife\u00a0delivering bundles of joy over Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Listowel native Esther Groarke pictured at work in the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin where she works as a midwife.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/KN Esther 2.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)\">Listowel native Esther Groarke pictured at work in the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin where she works as a midwife.<\/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)\">For the majority of us, Christmas Day is a time where we get to eat, drink, be merry and unwind with our family and loved ones after a long year of hard work and responsibilities.<\/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)\">For some, though, like those who work in the retail, hospitality or medical sector, the luxury of having the day off is certainly not a given. For Listowel native, Esther Groarke, in her role as a midwife in the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin, having Christmas Day off is something that has been the exception, rather than the norm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listowel native Esther Groarke pictured at work in the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin where she works as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14639,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-209966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-fergus-dennehy","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209966","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=209966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}