{"id":548458,"date":"2026-03-18T13:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548458\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:47:13","slug":"meet-the-wexford-friends-who-are-helping-men-man-up-to-combat-the-stigma-around-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548458\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Wexford friends who are helping men \u2018Man Up\u2019 to combat the stigma around mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dean O Neil and Mark Ennis from Man Up held their first session in the Gorey Family Resource Centre. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GG IMG_9521.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)\">Dean O Neil and Mark Ennis from Man Up held their first session in the Gorey Family Resource Centre. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench <\/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)\">Behind every person who seems \u201cfine\u201d there is a story rarely told, feelings not shared or a need for support which has been taught to stay hidden for some men. With over 1,000 people presenting themselves to Wexford General Hospital in a mental health crisis in 2025, the need for support services is raised.<\/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)\">To combat the stigma surrounding men\u2019s mental health, best friends Dean O\u2019 Neill and Mark Ennis have teamed up to create a safe space for men to be vulnerable and as they put, \u201cMan Up and Speak out\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dean O Neil and Mark Ennis from Man Up held their first session in the Gorey Family Resource&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[96928,64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":["post-548458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-alan-white","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548458","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=548458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}