{"id":343071,"date":"2026-02-18T06:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/343071\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:24:11","slug":"this-working-life-with-sarah-mcnulty-occupational-therapists-do-phenomenal-work-and-i-get-to-be-their-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/343071\/","title":{"rendered":"This Working Life with Sarah McNulty: \u2018Occupational therapists do phenomenal work and I get to be their champion\u2019"},"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\">\nThe occupational therapy manager for Dublin south-central mental health service chats to Mary McCarthy about work, life and mental health\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sarah McNulty, occupational therapist\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IB Sarah McNulty.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)\">Sarah McNulty, occupational therapist<\/p>\n<p>In conversation with Mary McCarthy<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/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)\">Occupational therapy (OT) is about helping people do everyday tasks for themselves if they are having difficulty due to physical or mental health problems or a disability.<\/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)\">It could be about getting up in the morning, cooking a meal, parenting, or any number of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The occupational therapy manager for Dublin south-central mental health service chats to Mary McCarthy about work, life and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[78],"tags":[3498,1128,52,18,135,60,19,17,111587,22482,15913],"class_list":["post-343071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-australia","tag-dublin","tag-eire","tag-health","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mary-mccarthy","tag-trinity-college-dublin","tag-ucd"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116090205862233737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}