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Mind yourself and your money – how mental and financial health are linked

Mental health issues can cause financial stress, and vice versa. Here’s how to get both your mental health and your finances back on a good footing

Over a quarter of solicitors find managing mental health ‘extremely challenging’

High pressure nature of the job and stress of dealing with clients is making it harder for solicitors to manage wellbeing, the Law Society says

Design For Life

Advice: I have three children; is it fair to ask my job for more flexibility?

This week, Leisha McGrath advises a reader who feels guilty about asking her work for special allowances to help allay her summer overwhelm

A third of construction workers suffering from stress in past 12 months, new study finds

40 per cent of construction workers feel compelled to keep working despite pressures

Bumble introduces new mental health and self-care features

Dating app has made the move after its own research found that 32 per cent of users are considering therapy

More than 800 apartments to be built on hospital grounds in Fairview

British property development firm to seek planning permission for scheme costing over €300m earmarked for the grounds of St Vincent’s Hospital Fairview

This Working Life

Damien McCarthy: Investment in learning how to disconnect, and reconnect, will benefit everyone

In a rapidly changing work environment where employees may be suffering from burnout or other issues, it is essential that we educate ourselves about mental health and wellbeing in the workplace

Rethink Ireland seeks ‘risk capital’ for youth mental health services

Deirdre Mortell, chief executive of the non-profit, says there is a difference between what philanthropic money and government money can do

This Working Life

This Working Life: Employees need wellbeing supports that actually work, not ‘sticking plaster’ solutions

Businesses are increasing their spending on mental health resources for a workforce traumatised by the pandemic, but these must be embedded into the culture, not just tacked on

Susan O’Keeffe: Consistent underfunding of our mental health services is a national shame

Many ministers for Health have come and gone and tinkering with mental health care in this country is their only legacy

Regulatory limbo sees counsellors and psychotherapists charging Vat for sessions

Paschal Donohoe, the Minister for Finance, has told the two groups that they will only be given a full Vat exemption once they are regulated by a professional body

HSE accused of ‘running down the clock’ on closure of Cork mental health centre

Public Accounts Committee has been asked to investigate issues relating to the planned closure of the Owenacurra facility in east Cork

Problems found in Kerry mental health review ‘inevitable’ due to underfunding

IMO tells Oireachtas committee Ireland’s mental health services are suffering from ‘years of inattention and underfunding’

Tony O’Brien: The children affected by the Camhs scandal have paid a terrible price but the consultants crisis is putting all health service users at risk

The paymasters have been at war with consultant doctors — and by extension non-consultant hospital doctors — for a decade, and no health service user has gone unscathed.

Mental health start-up Fettle aims to raise €7m in funding

Fettle’s online service matches clients with therapists and while it now has 30 counsellors on its books it expects to have 50 by the end of this month.

Mental Health Commission refused to meet TDs over closure of Cork facility

Commission said it would not be ‘appropriate’ to discuss the HSE’s decision to shut the Owenacurra centre, which has prompted significant backlash from politicians and family members

Almost half of 18-34 year olds plan to change job in the next year

New research shows mental health of young workers has been negatively impacted by the pandemic

Finding light through the darkness

To mark World Mental Health Day today, Nadine O’Regan and Arlene Harris asked a number of individuals from different fields how they cope when they’re experiencing a tough time in their lives – and what they do to help lift their spirits

Mental health start-up aims to create 26 jobs by end of 2022

Wexford town based business provides a way for therapists and clients to find each other online and hopes to have 70 counsellors using the platform by the end of this year

Design for Life: Should I cut ties with my verbally abusive dad?

This week, psychotherapist and author Siobhán Murray advises an adult child feeling rage over having to visit their irascible father