{"id":18585,"date":"2025-08-23T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/18585\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:36:09","slug":"kerry-father-whose-son-suffered-unnecessarily-in-wait-for-scoliosis-surgery-echoes-call-for-simon-harris-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/18585\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry father whose son \u2018suffered unnecessarily\u2019 in\u00a0wait for scoliosis surgery echoes call for Simon Harris resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Tony Foley says the State is failing children like his son and the late Harvey Morrison Sherratt.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ronan Foley pictured with his parents Tony and Caroline in their home in Killorglin. Photo by Michael G Kenny\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/97cb8bac-b69b-45d1-8df6-22ef8ce759ed.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)\">Ronan Foley pictured with his parents Tony and Caroline in their home in Killorglin. Photo by Michael G Kenny<\/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)\">When Killorglin father Tony Foley read about the death of the nine-year-old Harvey Morrison Sherratt, who suffered from scoliosis and died last month after waiting years for surgery, he was heart-broken but also angry.  <\/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)\">The Kerry man knows only too well the difficulties suffered by Harvey&#8217;s parents as they campaigned for their son to get the treatment he so badly needed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Foley says the State is failing children like his son and the late Harvey Morrison Sherratt. Ronan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,738,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-18585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-sinead-kelleher","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}