{"id":170725,"date":"2025-09-26T13:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170725\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:55:13","slug":"cavan-bus-driver-on-mission-to-highlight-mental-health-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170725\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavan bus driver on mission to highlight mental health awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bus driver Aodh\u00e1n OhArracht\u00e1in who is based in Co Cavan put his name forward in recent weeks for a nomination for a presidential bid.<\/p>\n<p>During his exchanges in council chambers across the country he spoke poignantly about his own battle with mental health.<\/p>\n<p>Aodh\u00e1n says he reached a low point in March of this year and attempted suicide by drowning.<\/p>\n<p>He is now a strong advocate for mental health and also said housing is seen an asset but it should be a right. The bus driver based in Mullagh says he hopes to now work with SOSAD in a bid to help others. Aodh\u00e1n says if we can have a conversation about this and it helps one person that will be a win.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bus driver Aodh\u00e1n OhArracht\u00e1in who is based in Co Cavan put his name forward in recent weeks for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-170725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}