{"id":52866,"date":"2025-08-08T14:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/52866\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:30:06","slug":"kerry-councillor-urging-men-who-are-struggling-to-take-first-step-and-talk-to-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/52866\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry councillor urging men who are struggling to take first step and talk to someone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Independent Kerry councillor\u00a0is urging men who are struggling to take the first step and talk to someone.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Jackie Healy-Rae made the plea after Minister for Mental Health Mary Butler announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ie\/ga\/an-roinn-sl%C3%A1inte\/preaseisiuinti\/minister-for-mental-health-announces-2m-for-new-counselling-supports-for-men\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u20ac2 million in funding for new counselling<\/a> and talk therapy supports specifically for men.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0aims to break down barriers to support and recognise that while men are more likely to experience serious mental health problems, they are less likely to get help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/cllr-jackie-healy-rae\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cllr\u00a0Healy-Rae<\/a> said this is about giving men a safe space to talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Independent Kerry councillor\u00a0is urging men who are struggling to take the first step and talk to someone.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-52866","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-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}