{"id":427959,"date":"2026-01-23T11:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427959\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:44:09","slug":"carry-the-weight-a-climb-lift-for-mens-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427959\/","title":{"rendered":"Carry The Weight &#8211; A Climb &#038; Lift For Men\u2019s Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday\u2019s edition of Morning Focus, Alan Morrissey spoke with Shane Birchall, organiser of Carry the Weight \u2014 a powerful fundraiser for men\u2019s mental health.<\/p>\n<p>On August 1st, Shane and a team of five will climb Croagh Patrick carrying 200 kilograms of weight between them, finishing with a record-breaking deadlift at the summit.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge is a symbol of the invisible burdens many men carry every day, and all funds raised go directly to Pieta House.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the full interview below:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday\u2019s edition of Morning Focus, Alan Morrissey spoke with Shane Birchall, organiser of Carry the Weight \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-427959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427959","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=427959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}