{"id":444616,"date":"2026-05-12T07:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444616\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:54:11","slug":"health-minister-meets-clare-residents-hours-away-from-emergency-healthcare-you-should-be-ashamed-of-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444616\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Minister meets Clare residents hours away from emergency healthcare &#8211; \u2018You should be ashamed of yourself\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and Naughton's Yard owner Elaine Haugh Hayes.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0745d009-8062-48cc-9a29-9c7546520134.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)\">Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and Naughton&#8217;s Yard owner Elaine Haugh Hayes.<\/p>\n<p>Molly Cantwell and Erika Sassone<\/p>\n<p>Today at 07:40<\/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)\">West Clare residents shared their concerns about access to emergency services to the Health Minister during her visit to Clare on Monday.<\/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)\">In Kilkee, residents recounted their lived experiences to Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, emphasising the need for quicker ways to access urgent healthcare as they explained they could wait hours for an ambulance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and Naughton&#8217;s Yard owner Elaine Haugh Hayes. Molly Cantwell and Erika Sassone Today&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3307,61,60,11317,43],"class_list":["post-444616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-erika-sassone","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-molly-cantwell","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444616","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=444616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}