{"id":472373,"date":"2026-05-07T04:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/472373\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T04:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:28:13","slug":"the-ghost-of-michael-shine-hangs-over-my-home-town-tds-make-statements-on-paedophile-surgeon-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/472373\/","title":{"rendered":"'The ghost of Michael Shine hangs over my home town': TDs make statements on paedophile surgeon – The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. ‘The ghost of Michael Shine hangs over my home town’: TDs make statements on paedophile surgeon<\/a>  The Journal<\/li>\n
  2. Scoping exercise into Michael Shine, Europe\u2019s \u2018most prolific paedophile\u2019, to take place<\/a>  The Irish Times<\/li>\n
  3. Minister pays tribute to men who spoke of abuse by Shine<\/a>  RTE.ie<\/li>\n
  4. Two TDs claim former Louth surgeon Michael Shine was \u2018one of the most prolific sex offenders in Europe\u2019<\/a>  The Irish Independent<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘The ghost of Michael Shine hangs over my home town’: TDs make statements on paedophile surgeon  The Journal Scoping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,207235,13415,18,13,14,6,19,17,5002,11,12,15,16,207236,5,141251,207237,42652,7,8],"class_list":["post-472373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-dignity4patients","tag-drogheda","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-michael-shine","tag-news","tag-our-lady-of-lourdes-hospital","tag-scoping-exercise","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116531410189904761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472373","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=472373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}