{"id":299865,"date":"2026-02-15T20:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299865\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T20:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:31:07","slug":"have-you-considered-egg-freezing-is-it-viable-in-ireland-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299865\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you considered egg-freezing? Is it viable in Ireland? \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/france\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/france\/\" target=\"_blank\">French<\/a> government, concerned about the country\u2019s falling birth rate, is writing to every 29-year-old in the country suggesting they avail of the free egg-freezing available to women aged 29 to 37 in France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The Irish Times is interested to hear from men and women about planning for parenthood. What is your situation now, does future fertility concern you, and have you considered egg-freezing? (In Ireland, the process is far more costly.) Or is France<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/2026\/02\/14\/jennifer-oconnell-what-do-women-want-on-valentines-day-not-a-chiding-letter-about-their-egg-reserves\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/2026\/02\/14\/jennifer-oconnell-what-do-women-want-on-valentines-day-not-a-chiding-letter-about-their-egg-reserves\/\"> \u201cleaping on the Handmaid\u2019s Tale bandwagon\u201d<\/a> as our columnist Jennifer O\u2019Connell writes? <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">You are invited to share your experience or opinion in the form below. A selection of responses may be published \u2013 please state if you would like to be named or anonymised. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Please include a phone number for verification purposes only.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">We will curate a selection of submissions for an article but please note we may not publish every submission we receive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free  b-it-article-body__copyright\">France is sending a letter to 29-year-olds suggesting they avail of the free egg-freezing available<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The French government, concerned about the country\u2019s falling birth rate, is writing to every 29-year-old in the country&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[631,66376,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-299865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-for-you","9":"tag-have-your-say","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299865","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=299865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}