{"id":303798,"date":"2026-02-18T06:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303798\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:20:09","slug":"this-working-life-with-sarah-mcnulty-occupational-therapists-do-phenomenal-work-and-i-get-to-be-their-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303798\/","title":{"rendered":"This Working Life with Sarah McNulty: \u2018Occupational therapists do phenomenal work and I get to be their champion\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe occupational therapy manager for Dublin south-central mental health service chats to Mary McCarthy about work, life and mental health\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sarah McNulty, occupational therapist\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IB Sarah McNulty.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)\">Sarah McNulty, occupational therapist<\/p>\n<p>In conversation with Mary McCarthy<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/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)\">Occupational therapy (OT) is about helping people do everyday tasks for themselves if they are having difficulty due to physical or mental health problems or a disability.<\/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)\">It could be about getting up in the morning, cooking a meal, parenting, or any number of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The occupational therapy manager for Dublin south-central mental health service chats to Mary McCarthy about work, life and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2334,986,615,103,2120,61,60,90452,15120,5762],"class_list":{"0":"post-303798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-dublin","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-hse","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-mary-mccarthy","16":"tag-trinity-college-dublin","17":"tag-ucd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}