{"id":288574,"date":"2026-02-09T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288574\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:00:08","slug":"ireland-lost-300-primary-school-classrooms-in-a-year-due-to-abortion-bishop-kevin-doran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288574\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland lost 300 primary school classrooms in a year due to abortion &#8211; Bishop Kevin Doran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Achonry and Elphin says Ireland has lost the equivalent of 300 primary school classrooms in a single year due to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Bishop Kevin Doran says the consequences are now being felt in school closures and declining school enrolments across the country.<\/p>\n<p>He cited official figures showing 10,852 babies were aborted in Ireland in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-choice campaign Bernie Linnane, from Co Leitrim, is dismissing his comments:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bishop of Achonry and Elphin says Ireland has lost the equivalent of 300 primary school classrooms in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12891,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-288574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-abortion","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288574","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=288574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}