{"id":431566,"date":"2026-05-04T10:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/431566\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:06:24","slug":"bupa-to-sell-its-20-strong-smiles-dental-practice-chain-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/431566\/","title":{"rendered":"Bupa to sell its 20-strong Smiles Dental practice chain in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Bupa, the health insurance giant, has decided to begin a process to sell all 20 of its Smiles Dental practices in the Republic of Ireland. The sales process is in its early stages and a process to find a buyer is expected to take a number of months. All practices will continue to trade as normal and the business has begun to inform staff of its decision to seek a suitable new owner. Smiles Dental has 13 locations in Dublin and clinics in Athlone, Bray, Cork, Dundalk, Enniscorthy, Galway, and Wexford.\u00a0Smiles Dental is estimated to employ 100 dentists, and up\u2026<\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"restricted-content__logo\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/wp-content\/themes\/currency-theme\/assets\/img\/Monogram-dark.svg\" alt=\"Logo\" width=\"290\" height=\"246\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>For a limited time, get your first month for \u20ac1 and unlock full access to The Currency and The Wall Street Journal \u2013 two premium memberships, one subscription.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cta-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/pricing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Cancel at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide_mobile\">Are you already a member? .<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Bupa, the health insurance giant, has decided to begin a process to sell all 20 of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[70632,103,397,396,61,60,39736],"class_list":["post-431566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-dental","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431566","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=431566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}