{"id":55815,"date":"2025-10-01T21:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55815\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:38:09","slug":"catherine-connolly-hits-out-at-mean-spirited-government-as-she-backs-four-people-on-hunger-strike-outside-leinster-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55815\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Connolly hits out at \u2018mean-spirited\u2019 government as she backs four people on hunger strike outside Leinster House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mary Donovan, Mary Dunleavy Greene, Maurice Patton O Connell and Marian Moriarty Owen are on hunger strike outside Leinster House. Photo: Frank McGrath.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/c799cedd-6f11-4930-9b60-247b2b40aaf4.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)\">Mary Donovan, Mary Dunleavy Greene, Maurice Patton O Connell and Marian Moriarty Owen are on hunger strike outside Leinster House. Photo: Frank McGrath.<\/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)\">Catherine Connolly spent much of her day at Leinster House highlighting the plight of residential institution victims who are now entering the 12th day of a hunger strike outside its gates.<\/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)\">Four people have felt they &#8220;have no choice but to go on hunger strike,&#8221; she said, as they seek an HAA card, named after a past Health (Amendment) Act. The card provides access to a wide range of free healthcare services, including GP visits, hospital services, prescribed medicines, among access to many other services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary Donovan, Mary Dunleavy Greene, Maurice Patton O Connell and Marian Moriarty Owen are on hunger strike outside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-55815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55815","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=55815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}