{"id":435620,"date":"2026-05-06T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/435620\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:24:09","slug":"two-tds-claim-former-louth-surgeon-michael-shine-was-one-of-the-most-prolific-sex-offenders-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/435620\/","title":{"rendered":"Two TDs claim former Louth surgeon Michael Shine was \u2018one of the most prolific sex offenders in Europe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Convicted sex abuser and former surgeon Michael Shine. Pic Collins Courts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a162f27d-f35b-4f90-a9d6-39928b4402e5.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)\">Convicted sex abuser and former surgeon Michael Shine. Pic Collins Courts<\/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)\">Two TDs have claimed to the D\u00e1il that former surgeon Michael Shine was one of the most prolific sex abusers in Europe.<\/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 allegation, made separately by Louth deputies Joanna Byrne of Sinn F\u00e9in and Ged Nash of Labour, came in a debate on the launch of a scoping exercise into his alleged crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Convicted sex abuser and former surgeon Michael Shine. Pic Collins Courts Two TDs have claimed to the D\u00e1il&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-435620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435620","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=435620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}