{"id":50712,"date":"2025-09-08T11:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/50712\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:19:14","slug":"mental-health-awareness-initiative-taking-place-in-limerick-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/50712\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health awareness initiative taking place in Limerick this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/news\/live95-news\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All Live95 News<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/68bc3b8443e1d.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    via Live95 Picture Library<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The Green Ribbon has been established as the international symbol for mental health awareness.\n        <\/p>\n<p>For the month of September, the people of Limerick are being encouraged to wear a green ribbon in a bid to show their support for mental health awareness and to \u201chelp change minds, one conversation at a time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A series of events in the city has been planned to take place this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the initiative is to get people talking openly about mental health problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Clifford from A.B.C. for Mental Health has been organising events since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Live95, she says the month will culminate with a special art exhibition at Treaty City Brewery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She shared, &#8220;The exhibition starts on the 19th of September and will go on to the 5th of October.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;ll open on culture night at seven o&#8217;clock, and this is artists from all walks of life, such as people who sell their work for thousands, or just people who do art for their mental health.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The exhibition is all about being inclusive instead of exclusive, because art is the only way of communicating when we don&#8217;t have words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/on-air\/ways-to-listen\/?utm_source=Live95&amp;utm_medium=news+article&amp;utm_campaign=app_download\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6655efe7844a7.jpg\" style=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Live95 News via Live95 Picture Library The Green Ribbon has been established as the international symbol for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[18,135,19,17,3006,3009,3005,3008,3007,3010,167,502],"class_list":{"0":"post-50712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-limerick-radio","13":"tag-limerick-today","14":"tag-limericks-live95fm","15":"tag-live-95","16":"tag-live95fm","17":"tag-live95fm-homepage","18":"tag-mental-health","19":"tag-mentalhealth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50712","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=50712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}