The Minister of State for Mental Health says she is aware of mental health challenges in Kerry and says increased services are needed for rural Ireland.<\/p>\n
Mary Butler<\/a> gave the keynote address at the first rural mental health conference in Newmarket, Co.Cork, which was organised by IRD Duhallow.<\/p>\n Speaking at the conference, Minister of State Butler said she was aware of the recent rise in suicide in Kerry:<\/p>\n IRD Duhallow’s rural community health worker, Shane McHale, is among those who organised the conference.<\/p>\n He explains what they hoped to achieve, saying significant progress can be made through engagement with the local community:<\/p>\n If you’re affected by any of the issues raised you may contact the Samaritans<\/a> anytime at 116 123.<\/p>\n For a free online men’s counselling service go to yourmentalhealth.ie\/men<\/a>, and for young people seeking counselling, visit SpunOut.ie\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Funded by the News Reporting Scheme\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minister of State for Mental Health says she is aware of mental health challenges in Kerry and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-776595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}