{"id":328145,"date":"2025-08-08T15:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328145\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:01:10","slug":"kerry-councillor-urging-men-who-are-struggling-to-take-first-step-and-talk-to-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328145\/","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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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":328146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-328145","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114993750818403197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}