{"id":551977,"date":"2026-07-16T02:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551977\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T02:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:50:07","slug":"valeries-law-on-guardianship-rights-passes-dail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551977\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Valerie’s Law’ on guardianship rights passes D\u00e1il"},"content":{"rendered":"

The D\u00e1il has passed legislation to ensure killers who take the life of their child’s other parent will no longer be able to automatically keep guardianship rights.<\/p>\n

The Guardianship of Infants and Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2026 is commonly referred to as “Valerie’s Law”.<\/p>\n

It is named in the memory of 41-year-old Valerie French, who was killed by her husband James Kilroy in Co Mayo in June 2019.<\/p>\n

The couple have three children.<\/p>\n

Kilory was convicted of killing his wife in 2024 and received the mandatory term of life imprisonment.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ms French’s brother had campaigned for Kilroy not to have control over the couple’s children.<\/p>\n

The law applies equally to both married and unmarried couples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The D\u00e1il has passed legislation to ensure killers who take the life of their child’s other parent will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-551977","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\/551977","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=551977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}