{"id":304812,"date":"2026-02-18T20:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304812\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:15:09","slug":"government-ministers-urge-calm-after-limerick-mayor-taken-ill-during-heated-council-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304812\/","title":{"rendered":"Government ministers urge calm after Limerick Mayor taken ill during heated Council debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mayor of Limerick, John Moran\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/RG John Moran.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)\">Mayor of Limerick, John Moran<\/p>\n<p>Jasmin Griffin and C\u00f3nal Thomas<\/p>\n<p>Today at 18:13<\/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 row which has broken out between Limerick&#8217;s directly elected mayor and councillors in Fine Gael and Fianna F\u00e1il comes down to &#8220;basic personalities&#8221; and &#8220;people that don&#8217;t get on&#8221; as government ministers urged both sides to resolve the issue.<\/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)\">Limerick mayor John Moran this week launched an attack on a number of councillors from both parties, accusing them of undermining his mandate as mayor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor of Limerick, John Moran Jasmin Griffin and C\u00f3nal Thomas Today at 18:13 A row which has broken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,4017,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-304812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-jasmin-griffin","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304812","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=304812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}