{"id":268341,"date":"2026-01-28T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/268341\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:58:09","slug":"dr-niamh-lynch-when-i-said-you-shouldnt-give-your-kids-popcorn-if-theyre-under-five-people-lost-their-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/268341\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Niamh Lynch: \u2018When I said you shouldn\u2019t give your kids popcorn if they\u2019re under five \u2013 people lost their minds\u2019"},"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\">With her potentially life-saving videos and no-nonsense social media posts, the Cork-based paediatric consultant is on a mission to help parents. Here, she talks about how misinformation online is putting children at risk, Ireland\u2019s flawed healthcare system and sharing her experience of Ozempic\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr Niamh Lynch. Photo: Daragh Mc Sweeney\/Provision\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/12407491-0d5f-4353-8dbe-e823bbe85b66.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)\">Dr Niamh Lynch. Photo: Daragh Mc Sweeney\/Provision<\/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)\">It\u2019s a strange sort of honour to know you\u2019re responsible for putting a lot of people in hospital, but one Niamh Lynch is very familiar with.<\/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)\">The Cork-based consultant paediatrician laughs, admitting she regularly has mums and dads approach her while she\u2019s at work to tell her that she\u2019s the reason they\u2019ve walked through the emergency doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With her potentially life-saving videos and no-nonsense social media posts, the Cork-based paediatric consultant is on a mission&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60,898,128197,128198],"class_list":["post-268341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-shp","tag-signature-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268341","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=268341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}