{"id":541487,"date":"2026-07-09T19:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/541487\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:13:12","slug":"patrick-odonovan-hospitalised-in-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/541487\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick O&#8217;Donovan hospitalised in Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Arts, Media and Sport Patrick O&#8217;Donovan has been hospitalised in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>Mr O&#8217;Donovan became unwell on Tuesday night and was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He was in Brussels for a series of events as part of Ireland&#8217;s Presidency of the EU.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the minister said that he remains under close medical observation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would ask you to respect his privacy and that of his family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be no further comment at this time,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>A Fine Gael spokesperson said T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris remains in close contact with the family of Mr O&#8217;Donovan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His thoughts and that of entire Fine Gael family are with Patrick and his family,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister for Arts, Media and Sport Patrick O&#8217;Donovan has been hospitalised in Brussels. Mr O&#8217;Donovan became unwell on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-541487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","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\/541487","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=541487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}