{"id":242319,"date":"2025-11-04T00:28:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242319\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T00:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:28:19","slug":"irish-thalidomide-association-calls-for-a-state-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242319\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Thalidomide Association calls for a state apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish Thalidomide Association has called for a state apology.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s told the Taoiseach and Tanaiste saying sorry to Thalidomide survivors and their mothers and fathers is long overdue.<\/p>\n<p>Miche\u00e1l Martin and Simon Harris met the group yesterday, promising to provide discretionary medical cards to unacknowledged survivors.<\/p>\n<p>Irish Thalidomide Association spokesperson Finola Cassidy says they have made demands on Government which must admit responsibility:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish Thalidomide Association has called for a state apology. It&#8217;s told the Taoiseach and Tanaiste saying sorry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[102,6591,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-242319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}