{"id":36226,"date":"2025-09-22T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/36226\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T07:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:00:04","slug":"i-wont-be-ignored-wexford-mum-to-run-to-leinster-house-in-campaign-for-24-7-mental-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/36226\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I won\u2019t be ignored\u2019 \u2013 Wexford mum to run to Leinster House in campaign for 24\/7 mental health care"},"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\">Having experienced the lack of services available first-hand, Barbara Sludds will run the equivalent of 5 back-to-back marathons to push for acute mental health services in the county\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Barbara Sludds from Blackwater, Co Wexford, who is planning to run from her home village to Leinster House and back in a bid to raise the chronic need for 24\/7 acute mental healthcare in her home county.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6db89e4b-ebb9-428a-a105-176389c9a59d.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)\">Barbara Sludds from Blackwater, Co Wexford, who is planning to run from her home village to Leinster House and back in a bid to raise the chronic need for 24\/7 acute mental healthcare in her home county.<\/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)\">\u201cI\u2019m done. I\u2019m fed up waiting.\u201d<\/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)\">Wexford mother of two Barbara Sludds has decided that the time for talking and promises is over. Borne from pure frustration, she is about to take on a mammoth task in a bid to force the hand of the government and the HSE. To secure the long-awaited restoration of 24\/7 acute mental health services in Co Wexford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having experienced the lack of services available first-hand, Barbara Sludds will run the equivalent of 5 back-to-back marathons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69,33556],"class_list":{"0":"post-36226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-padraig-byrne"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36226","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=36226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}