{"id":290458,"date":"2026-01-18T06:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/290458\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T06:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:33:09","slug":"shingles-vaccine-should-not-just-be-for-rich-people-says-pharmacist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/290458\/","title":{"rendered":"Shingles vaccine should not just be for \u2018rich people\u2019, says pharmacist"},"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\">Former TD calls for nationwide roll-out\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A medic administering a vaccine. Stock photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b420c78d-ad0b-46c4-9abf-a40357ab7550.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)\">A medic administering a vaccine. Stock photo: Getty<\/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 Government should cover the cost of the shingles vaccine for older people as it can currently only be afforded by \u201crich people\u201d, former Fine Gael TD Kate O\u2019Connell has urged.<\/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 pharmacist said the shingles vaccine, which costs \u20ac500, should be rolled out nationally to all those in the relevant age bracket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former TD calls for nationwide roll-out A medic administering a vaccine. Stock photo: Getty The Government should cover&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[3496,18,135,493,60,19,17,5002,3497],"class_list":{"0":"post-290458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-department-of-health","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-insurance","12":"tag-hse","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill","16":"tag-world-health-organization"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115914709644775782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290458","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=290458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}