{"id":630459,"date":"2026-09-20T12:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T12:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630459\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T12:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T12:28:15","slug":"hopes-clares-older-population-will-have-access-to-free-shingles-vaccine-in-near-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630459\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopes Clare&#8217;s Older Population Will Have Access To Free Shingles Vaccine In Near Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hoped Clare\u2019s older population will have access to a free shingles vaccine in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Jennifer Carrol McNeill confirmed the vaccine was being considered following a push from Clare Fine Gael TD Joe Cooney.<\/p>\n<p>The National Immunisation Advisory Committee states the vaccine should be considered for those aged over 65 due to the \u2018greater burden and severity of the disease\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Bodyke Deputy Joe Cooney, says it\u2019s likely the vaccine will be made available to those aged over 75 first.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the full interview here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s hoped Clare\u2019s older population will have access to a free shingles vaccine in the near future. Health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-630459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630459","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=630459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}