{"id":209998,"date":"2025-12-25T09:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209998\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T09:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:08:10","slug":"irish-wheelchair-basketball-team-say-ryanair-treatment-was-inhumane-during-delayed-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209998\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish wheelchair basketball team say Ryanair treatment was \u2018inhumane\u2019 during delayed flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Emerald Rollers Irish national women's basketball team \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b370a7b5-1f0b-42b0-be01-9ec26569acc3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Emerald Rollers Irish national women&#8217;s basketball team <\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Members of the Irish women\u2019s wheelchair basketball team say they have \u201cnever felt so uncomfortable\u201d due to the behaviour of Ryanair staff as they tried to board a flight to England on Friday, December 12. <\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The flight, which was due to take off from Dublin Airport and travel to Newcastle-upon-Tyne at 7.40pm, did not set off until after 9pm \u2013 with staff reportedly trying to blame the nine wheelchair users for the delay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Emerald Rollers Irish national women&#8217;s basketball team Members of the Irish women\u2019s wheelchair basketball team say they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,82513,1899],"class_list":["post-209998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-niamh-campbell","tag-ryanair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209998","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=209998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}