{"id":661930,"date":"2026-10-22T09:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661930\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T09:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:34:09","slug":"local-senator-says-hes-disappointed-shingles-vaccine-wont-be-rolled-out-until-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661930\/","title":{"rendered":"Local senator says he&#8217;s &#8220;disappointed&#8221; shingles vaccine won&#8217;t be rolled out until next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monaghan Senator Robbie Gallagher said while he welcomes the rollout of the national shingles vaccine programme, he&#8217;s &#8220;disappointed&#8221; that the rollout won&#8217;t kick in until June of next year.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccine programme will include people aged 65 and older and immuno-compromised groups. It will be implemented on a phased basis over five years.<\/p>\n<p>Up until now the vaccine was only available privately at a cost.<\/p>\n<p>Now it will be available to everyone who is immuno-compromised and older people.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Gallagher described the rollout as a &#8220;game-changer&#8221; for older people and the immuno-compromised.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Northern Sound, the Fianna Fail representative said he will raise his concerns with the Health Minister as to why the vaccine should be rolled out before June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monaghan Senator Robbie Gallagher said while he welcomes the rollout of the national shingles vaccine programme, he&#8217;s &#8220;disappointed&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-661930","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\/661930","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=661930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}