{"id":335663,"date":"2026-03-18T11:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/335663\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:54:17","slug":"kerry-pieta-house-closure-triggers-fears-for-long-term-mental-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/335663\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Pieta House closure triggers fears for long-term mental health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pieta House Kerry facility at Moyderwell, Tralee.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3c24846c-6a85-48eb-aff7-7d9ca02fc8a3.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)\">Pieta House Kerry facility at Moyderwell, Tralee.<\/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)\">Pieta House has confirmed it will close its Kerry centre in the coming months, resulting in the loss of two administrative jobs as rising rent and overhead costs make the facility unsustainable.<\/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)\">The Tralee-based centre at Moyderwell opened in 2015 and at one stage had 13 therapists providing support to people experiencing suicidal ideation and self-harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pieta House Kerry facility at Moyderwell, Tralee. Pieta House has confirmed it will close its Kerry centre in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69,35664],"class_list":["post-335663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-stephen-fernane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}