{"id":256125,"date":"2025-11-01T20:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256125\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T20:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:13:12","slug":"radio-kerry-presenter-shortlisted-for-mental-health-media-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256125\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Kerry presenter shortlisted for Mental Health Media Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Radio Kerry presenter has been nominated in the national mental health media awards.<\/p>\n<p>The full shortlist was announced yesterday, Friday October 31st.<\/p>\n<p>Deirdre Walsh, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/radio-kerry-takes-home-six-awards-at-imros-2025-454260\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who won an IMRO radio award<\/a> earlier this month, has been shortlisted for this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shine.ie\/awards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shine Mental Health Media Awards.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Talkabout presenter was nominated for her interview with Tralee resident Nogugu Mafu, who shared her experience of living with Bipolar Affective Disorder and symptoms of psychosis.<\/p>\n<p>The interview was broadcast in October last year and also featured Nogugu\u2019s teenage son, who spoke about helping his mother with her condition.<\/p>\n<p>Ballybunion native Shane Phelan was also nominated in the print category.<\/p>\n<p>Radio Kerry&#8217;s sister station Shannonside Northern Sound is also on the shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Dan Dooner was nominated in the Refugee Mental Health category for his piece titled &#8216;Gaza calling: loved ones in limbo&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Winners will be announced on the 3rd of December at an award ceremony in Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Radio Kerry presenter has been nominated in the national mental health media awards. The full shortlist was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,151214,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-256125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mental-health-media-awards","13":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}