{"id":247149,"date":"2026-01-20T00:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/247149\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T00:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:42:12","slug":"our-lady-of-lourdes-hospital-in-louth-given-green-light-for-major-mri-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/247149\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Louth given green light for major MRI expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5c47ee46-0bd7-4481-aa25-899a8c092bd6.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)\">Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.<\/p>\n<p>Drogheda Independent<\/p>\n<p>Today at 16:00<\/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)\">Planning permission has been granted for a significant expansion of diagnostic imaging facilities at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, with a new two-storey MRI facility set to be developed at the Windmill Road campus.<\/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)\">Louth County Council has approved the application by Alliance Medical Diagnostic Imaging Ltd for the removal of existing prefabricated MRI units and the construction of a purpose-built extension designed to increase scanning capacity at the hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. Drogheda Independent Today at 16:00 Planning permission has been granted for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46,132346],"class_list":{"0":"post-247149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-katie-finnegan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}