{"id":40837,"date":"2025-09-03T12:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40837\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:37:08","slug":"galway-musician-overwhelmed-by-support-after-mothers-mnd-diagnosis-everyones-eager-to-take-part-and-help-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40837\/","title":{"rendered":"Galway musician overwhelmed by support after mother\u2019s MND diagnosis \u2013 \u2018Everyone\u2019s eager to take part and help out\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\">One year after his mother Helen was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease, Colm Brennan described the amazing support he had received from the community as his fundraises in aid of IMNDA\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Colm Brennan with his dad Sean and his mom Helen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/10295e33-c792-4b0e-96e8-b1a21d0ab918.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)\">Colm Brennan with his dad Sean and his mom Helen<\/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)\">A Galway man is using what he knows best \u2013 music \u2013  to fundraise and raise awareness for Motor Neuron Disease, one year after his mother\u2019s diagnosis, and the community has rallied around his family without hesitation. <\/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)\">Galway native Colm Brennan explained to the Irish Independent that his mother, Helen, was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease (MND) in spring 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One year after his mother Helen was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease, Colm Brennan described the amazing support&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,13222,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-40837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-erika-sassone","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40837","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=40837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}