{"id":389433,"date":"2026-04-09T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389433\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:30:07","slug":"dup-mla-stepping-down-due-to-significant-mental-health-issues-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389433\/","title":{"rendered":"DUP MLA stepping down due to &#039;significant&#039; mental health issues &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE0zOXNQNU5qNGNSOEtTTUo3TDBEYUxVN2RVbXZ3Q2NkOVlFeExxb0ozZHlyQ3FxRXhhdGNNXzVBVjhydUFUZXhmWFRKbnFwbi1pTHk4MVJtX3U5QQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DUP MLA stepping down due to &#8216;significant&#8217; mental health issues<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi2gFBVV95cUxPcExHa3N6WVM1RTFoVmZ0RTNmczBLOC1BOFBYdU9wcU5LTlR5eEE3NUVJMWRhS0EzN0Vtb3VtQUVFWmV0Q3lRNDdxNnBZN2VDWEx1R1BDR2hnOWprUWIyU1l3di1WNk1tS3dqZEpUZzRNdFM0R18tZ0FjajctaXRJYmF6UDhYUlFyWlpONVVMUHg1RFIxSTd6bnlQZk55TTRwRVBmRTkxSXVxUVhuT3BzdkY2LWlLRXlTWkFKYkdTM3lMeTJ3NkRNbEVHaUFYdC1pbGFTc0U5TDk5QQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u2018It\u2019s OK not to be OK\u2019: DUP MLA leaving politics due to mental health challenges<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Belfast Telegraph<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi0AFBVV95cUxOc2ZyV3NPNVljZWNRSmZCd2ZXUS0xS19zUWlTdnE4X3FOT2R2SmVCZG5IN0tOV1hEaExaLXo0dTBNcWROMHVLbjZybTdxLURlSjU2N25WUU1SVUJ4MUF0aF9fSzcybWtwUDQ2SWZldzhqWEdfbXd3ZS1RRGlsaUQzLVIzYi1aSThZZkZSRDBSdTJlMU9kc3VDWVZ1bGJyTlhfSC0zRUs0Yzh2Nm5ILWhYWTgzWEE0QUN0ZjI0Mk1XNXIwck03YkxBR1BHV0EwdF9Y?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DUP MLA Gary Middleton to resign to deal with mental health challenges<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Limerick Leader<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi7gFBVV95cUxPT3dyRG5QUlpBU29Ub0tZRjc1WlA5ekdlUHlYSHlDNUhFaEVndnNEcVJOaWZXdE5jSXc4enNDN1B0SGw2X3hjVFctZFZBNFNQbVdXRmNMdnNlMHhlc0JTVGZtRVIxZi15dmJ4SlZwZlFBTGlKdnBpMTdQRXZjcEtteVRUWHJsUWd6cGJsLWk4Y01YN3Vvcm9iU0t1UjYzYXFEQTlwaHV1VEdwU2hGczF2Ml9CNjFMRkJkNk5pX21LdE52Zm92aktkY1V5MGREZTVDRmJNV09HQnJZUmtnQUw0UVNlRHN4MkdsbTFkaS1B?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u2018It\u2019s OK not to be OK\u2019: DUP MLA Gary Middleton leaving politics due to mental health challenges<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Belfast Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUP MLA stepping down due to &#8216;significant&#8217; mental health issues&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC\u2018It\u2019s OK not to be OK\u2019: DUP MLA leaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-389433","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\/389433","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=389433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}