{"id":542161,"date":"2026-07-10T04:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/542161\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T04:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:15:17","slug":"minister-patrick-odonovan-taken-to-hospital-in-brussels-after-becoming-unwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/542161\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Patrick O\u2019Donovan taken to hospital in Brussels after becoming unwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Arts and Culture Patrick O\u2019Donovan was taken to hospital in Brussels after becoming unwell earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donovan was in Brussels to introduce a concert at Le Flagey cultural centre, one of three flagship projects that form part of Ireland\u2019s Presidency of the Council of the EU.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm that the Minister became unwell in Brussels on Tuesday night and was taken to hospital,\u201d a spokeswoman for Mr O\u2019Donovan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe remains under close medical observation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would ask you to respect his privacy and that of his family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be no further comment at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donovan revealed last year that he has a photo sensitivity that manifests itself into epilepsy.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was \u201cterrified\u201d when he collapsed in an aggressive fit while speaking in the D\u00e1il chamber in June 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister for Arts and Culture Patrick O\u2019Donovan was taken to hospital in Brussels after becoming unwell earlier in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-542161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542161","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=542161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}