{"id":205865,"date":"2025-11-29T03:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/205865\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T03:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:28:12","slug":"disappointment-in-clare-as-health-minister-shelves-plan-for-new-ennis-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/205865\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappointment in Clare as Health Minister shelves plan for new Ennis hospital"},"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\">However, Minister MacNeill has seemingly claimed a final decision has not been made yet\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Clare County Councillor Rita McInerney outside Ennis hospital. Image: Rita McInernery via Facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RG - Rita McInerney.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)\">Clare County Councillor Rita McInerney outside Ennis hospital. Image: Rita McInernery via Facebook<\/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)\">A Clare County Councillor has voiced her disappointment following the Health Minister\u2019s apparent decision not to start works on a hospital in the county.<\/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)\">University Hospital Limerick\u2019s (UHL) capacity has been a hotly discussed topic in the Mid-West region over the last number of years as trolley numbers peaked and deaths, such as the well-reported loss of Aoife Johnston, occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, Minister MacNeill has seemingly claimed a final decision has not been made yet Clare County Councillor Rita&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[18,135,475,474,19,17,20379],"class_list":{"0":"post-205865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-care","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-molly-cantwell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115630866984124952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205865","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=205865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}