Led by experienced walkers and volunteers, HUGG walks bring together the power of nature, gentle exercise, and shared understanding.  Whether your loss is recent or many years ago, you're welcome to join.  Feel free to bring along a mate or family member.  Walks take place at various locations and dates.  Find details and register here: https://hugg.ie/news-events/hugg-grief-support-walks-suicide-loss or call 01 513 4048.

This report from the Northern Ireland Mental Health Champion, Professor Siobhan O'Neill, provides a high-level overview of Northern Ireland's mental health services.  It draws together information about our history and how this has affected the mental health of the population, information about factors affecting mental health services, and future direction.  Download the report at: https://tinyurl.com/yp6m7zss

The South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust's Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Training Directory is now available at: https://setrust-hscni.pagetiger.com/mh-training/version1

The Men’s Health Forum in Ireland, in collaboration with South East Technological University, is undertaking a national needs assessment to inform the development of a Men’s Health Toolkit.  This work is supported by the Health Service Executive and contributes to the Healthy Ireland - Men Action Plan (2024-2028).  The Toolkit will provide practical guidance to support services and organisations to apply gender-responsive, masculinities-informed approaches to engaging men in health and wellbeing initiatives.  People working across health and community-based services are invited to complete a short online survey (10-15 minutes) which explores their current approaches to engaging men, as well as key challenges, facilitators, and priority support needs.  Your experience will help to directly inform the design and content of the new national Toolkit.  You can access the survey at: https://setu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8vT1aEQoUrOsIkK

To keep everyone up-to-date with the latest news on Men’s Health Week (MHW) 2026 - as well as more general developments in the field of men’s work - check out Facebook (www.facebook.com/MensHealthWeek) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/MensHealthIRL).

However, as all social networkers know, pages such as these are no use unless they have a lot of Fans / Followers.  That’s where your help is needed! ...  Don’t forget to send the links to all your friends.  If you’re really into it, please Tweet about MHW 2026 yourself, and include one or more of the hashtags:  #MensHealthWeek   |   #ProgressNotPerfection   |   #SmallStepsBigResults

Men’s health issues and needs are numerous and complicated.  So much so, that we could probably assign a different one to highlight on each day of the year and still have an outstanding pool of ones to explore!  However, when preparing for Men’s Health Week (MHW) 2026, the all-island Planning Group felt that it would be useful to draw attention to a specific theme on each day during the week, as well as announce the final countdown to MHW during the week before.

The focus of each day will be ...

-  Friday 12th June: Take One Step at a Time - progress not perfection
-  Monday 15th June:  Trash the ash (and save the cash)
-  Tuesday 16th June:  Prevention is better than cure
-  Wednesday 17th June:  Food for thought
-  Thursday 18th June:  Rethink what you drink
-  Friday 19th June:  Be Mind fit
-  Saturday 20th June:  Let’s get physical - be more than a sports spectator
-  Sunday 21st June:  Father's Day - the important role that fathers play in their children's lives

However, anything which highlights men’s health issues and needs during MHW 2026 will be very welcome on any day - so, there’s no need to stick rigidly to these themes.

Social media has become a powerful tool for organisations to spread their message.  During Men’s Health Week 2026, we are encouraging everyone to ‘Post’ and ‘Tweet’ to their heart’s content and, when possible, to use the hashtags: #MensHealthWeek  |  #ProgressNotPerfection  |  #SmallStepsBigResults   To support this, a range of social media graphics is available.

For those people who would like to support MHW 2026 using their own social media channels - but who don't have the time, energy or knowledge to develop their own messages - a ready-made pool of Posts and Tweets that you can simply cut-and-paste is available at: https://mhfi.org/Tweets2026.pdf

Even loading a few things to social media platforms makes a huge difference to publicising the week.  This is, therefore, an easy and free way to show support for MHW.

Absolutely everyone can do something to promote, celebrate and contribute to Men’s Health Week (MHW) 2026.  There are many simple, free and easy ways to get involved / show support.  Get inspired at: https://mhfi.org/mhw/mhw-2026.html#Do and remember that doing one or more of these (mostly free) things will contribute hugely to MHW 2026!

Every year there are hundreds (possibly even thousands) of events and activities throughout Ireland to celebrate Men’s Health Week (MHW).  Some of these are well publicised, but most are only known about by a few people.

As in previous years, the Men's Health Forum in Ireland (MHFI) will promote the details of any activities or events that are being held throughout the island of Ireland during Men’s Health Week 2026.  This will help everyone to find out what is happening during the week, where it will take place, and how to join in.  It will also give some recognition and publicity to all those groups across Ireland that are doing something for and with men.

These activities might include health checks, conferences, launches, games, seminars, competitions, workshops, courses, displays, health fairs, workplace mail-outs ...  Whatever the activity, everyone is encouraged to submit their details. 

There are two ways to let us know about what is happening to mark the week: (i) submit the details using the online form (at: www.mhfi.org/mhw/promote-an-event.html); or (ii) download and save a copy of the MS Word Registration Form (www.mhfi.org/mhw2026project.docx), type in the details, and email it back to us.