{"id":479565,"date":"2026-06-02T18:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/479565\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:07:08","slug":"councillor-queries-state-of-mental-health-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/479565\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillor queries state of mental health services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With an increasing number of patients presenting to the Emergency Departments of hospitals across the region with mental health issues, and concern over the number of suicides in the region in recent months, Castlebar based councillor Michael Kilcoyne raised questions with HSE management on the services available.<\/p>\n<p>In a written question to this month\u2019s HSE West Forum meeting in Merlin Park Hospital, the Independent councillor asked about the facilities available in Mayo for anyone experiencing a severe mental health episode.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards he spoke to Midwest News Editor Teresa O\u2019Malley about his concerns and the response received\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kilcomental.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kilcomental.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With an increasing number of patients presenting to the Emergency Departments of hospitals across the region with mental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-479565","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\/479565","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=479565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}