{"id":346810,"date":"2025-08-15T15:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346810\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T15:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:02:12","slug":"al-mennie-north-coast-surfer-turned-to-night-swimming-for-his-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346810\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Mennie: North coast surfer turned to night swimming for his mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Surfer, swimmer and mental health advocate Al Mennie speaks to Aine Toner about his latest book, family and finding what ignites passion\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Al Mennie on Downhill beach outside Castlerock. Credit: Kevin Scott\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/be3e79b5-ab6e-49c4-989c-6afa4297ddff.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Al Mennie on Downhill beach outside Castlerock. Credit: Kevin Scott<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">French filmmaker and oceanographer Jacques Cousteau said that \u2018the sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One person who can attest to this more than most is big wave surfer and mental health advocate Al Mennie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surfer, swimmer and mental health advocate Al Mennie speaks to Aine Toner about his latest book, family and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[16264,1211,105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-346810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-aine-toner","9":"tag-antrim-news","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115033390814672716","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346810","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=346810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}