{"id":437069,"date":"2026-05-07T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/437069\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:55:08","slug":"clare-government-td-says-health-minister-visiting-county-to-experience-reality-of-healthcare-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/437069\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare Government TD Says Health Minister Visiting County To Experience &#8220;Reality&#8221; Of Healthcare Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Clare Government TD claims the Health Minister is visiting this county next week to allow her to experience the reality of healthcare access in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Carroll MacNeill is set to make the trip to Clare on Monday where she\u2019ll meet with the management of Ennis Hospital as well as groups like the Friends of Ennis Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s understood discussions will include hospital capacity and ambulance services.<\/p>\n<p>Bodyke Fine Gael Deputy Joe Cooney has been telling Clare FM\u2019s Se\u00e1n Lyons \u201cdistance and access\u201d to emergency care in west and north Clare will be prominent topics of conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full interview here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Clare Government TD claims the Health Minister is visiting this county next week to allow her to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-437069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437069","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=437069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}