{"id":606166,"date":"2026-08-27T11:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/606166\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:48:11","slug":"td-claims-chaotic-scenes-at-ed-of-muh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/606166\/","title":{"rendered":"TD claims \u201cchaotic scenes\u201d at ED of MUH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Mayo TD has said he encountered significant overcrowding at Mayo University Hospital following a late-night visit to the emergency department.<\/p>\n<p>Aont\u00fa\u2019s Paul Lawless went to the hospital on Tuesday last, following a call from a constituent who said they had been waiting in excess of 24 hours in the Emergency Dept of the hospital..<\/p>\n<p>Over the preceding 48 hours, deputy Lawless claims 300 people presented to the emergency department at Mayo University Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Lawless spoke to Midwest Radio\u2019s Scott Stevens about what he saw\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PAULMUH.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PAULMUH.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Mayo TD has said he encountered significant overcrowding at Mayo University Hospital following a late-night visit to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-606166","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\/606166","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=606166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}