Having experienced the lack of services available first-hand, Barbara Sludds will run the equivalent of 5 back-to-back marathons to push for acute mental health services in the county

Barbara Sludds from Blackwater, Co Wexford, who is planning to run from her home village to Leinster House and back in a bid to raise the chronic need for 24/7 acute mental healthcare in her home county.

Barbara Sludds from Blackwater, Co Wexford, who is planning to run from her home village to Leinster House and back in a bid to raise the chronic need for 24/7 acute mental healthcare in her home county.

“I’m done. I’m fed up waiting.”

Wexford mother of two Barbara Sludds has decided that the time for talking and promises is over. Borne from pure frustration, she is about to take on a mammoth task in a bid to force the hand of the government and the HSE. To secure the long-awaited restoration of 24/7 acute mental health services in Co Wexford.