{"id":55723,"date":"2025-10-01T20:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55723\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T20:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:37:08","slug":"i-was-shocked-by-how-absolutely-horrific-the-system-is-new-documentary-shows-what-its-really-like-to-be-neurodivergent-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55723\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was shocked by how absolutely horrific the system is\u2019: new documentary shows what it\u2019s really like to be neurodivergent in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">TG4 documentary N\u00e9ara-\u00c9ags\u00falacht: Dearcadh Difri\u00fail features an Irish-language speaking family as they strive to secure a school place in their local Gaelscoil\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ger U\u00ed Chonghaile and her husband Diarmuid \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bc70156b-bf0c-4cba-a0c1-e921d4318a84.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)\">Ger U\u00ed Chonghaile and her husband Diarmuid <\/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)\">\u201cYou have to kill yourself with hours of work to get any help in this country for a child with a disability,\u201d mother Ger U\u00ed Chonghaile says. \u201cIn this day and age, how is there not a more streamlined system?\u201d<\/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)\">Bean U\u00ed Chonghaile and her husband Diarmuid have two children: a daughter, Laoise, and six-year-old Ferdia, who is autistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TG4 documentary N\u00e9ara-\u00c9ags\u00falacht: Dearcadh Difri\u00fail features an Irish-language speaking family as they strive to secure a school place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,9715,270,15337],"class_list":["post-55723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kirsty-blake-knox","tag-movies","tag-tg4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55723","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=55723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}