{"id":304060,"date":"2026-02-18T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304060\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:06:10","slug":"jimmy-laughlins-parents-speak-out-following-dail-clash-on-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304060\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Laughlin&#8217;s parents speak out following Dail clash on mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The family of the late Jimmy Laughlin feel that they are making progress in finding answers.<\/p>\n<p>It comes following a Dail clash over an RTE Prime Time Investigates programme on the mental health service which had a big focus on Sligo.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, 20 year old Jimmy Loughlin was beaten to death by Richard McLaughlin who broke through the front door of his Sligo town apartment as he suffered a psychotic episode.<\/p>\n<p>The killer was found not guilty by reason of insanity.<\/p>\n<p>Sinn Fein Deputy Martin Kenny raised the issue in the Dail in recent days stating that people are being failed by the system.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy&#8217;s parents, Michael and Paula Laughlin have been speaking in the wake of the developments:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of the late Jimmy Laughlin feel that they are making progress in finding answers. It comes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-304060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304060","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=304060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}