{"id":275582,"date":"2026-02-01T16:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/275582\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:21:09","slug":"revoke-agreements-that-helped-cover-up-jessica-sheedys-death-at-university-hospital-limerick-says-td","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/275582\/","title":{"rendered":"Revoke agreements that helped \u2018cover up\u2019 Jessica Sheedy\u2019s death at University Hospital Limerick, says TD"},"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\">Richard O\u2019Donoghue urges Government to act on NDAs following beauty therapist\u2019s death after surgery\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"University Hospital Limerick apologised to the Sheedy family. Photo: Don Moloney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c5cbe707-ee02-41d0-9853-535d5635106e.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)\">University Hospital Limerick apologised to the Sheedy family. Photo: Don Moloney<\/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)\">A TD who accused University Hospital Limerick (UHL) of a \u201ccover-up\u201d by requiring staff to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to protect a consultant is to ask the Government this week to revoke the agreements.<\/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)\">Independent Ireland TD Richard O\u2019Donoghue said the move would allow staff to give their full accounts of events surrounding the death of 18-year-old \u00adJessica Sheedy and help her family \u00adto finally understand what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard O\u2019Donoghue urges Government to act on NDAs following beauty therapist\u2019s death after surgery University Hospital Limerick apologised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,2120,61,60,1421,6134,1843],"class_list":["post-275582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill","tag-maeve-sheehan","tag-micheal-martin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275582","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=275582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}