{"id":367578,"date":"2026-03-27T06:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367578\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T06:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:31:11","slug":"healy-rae-vows-to-protect-hospital-chapel-from-closure-its-a-place-to-clear-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367578\/","title":{"rendered":"Healy-Rae vows to protect hospital chapel from closure \u2013 \u2018It\u2019s a place to clear your head\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\">Proposal to close Kerry hospital chapel sparks anger\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Healy-Rae.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ddcecf6d-ba85-42de-ae81-46468f35f566.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)\">Michael Healy-Rae.<\/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)\">Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture Michael Healy-Rae said he will resist any plans to remove the chapel at University Hospital Kerry (UHK) as part of proposals to re-develop the hospital campus which are currently under review.<\/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 issue sparked controversy when it emerged that the Christ the Healer Chapel \u2013 a place of comfort and consolation for decades \u2013 may be removed as part of future development to make way for a planned six-bed ward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Proposal to close Kerry hospital chapel sparks anger Michael Healy-Rae. Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12780,2120,61,60,24878,43,16585],"class_list":{"0":"post-367578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-catholic-church","9":"tag-hse","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-michael-healy-rae","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-stephen-fernane"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367578","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=367578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}