{"id":546478,"date":"2026-06-21T09:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/546478\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T09:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:12:24","slug":"global-motor-neurone-awareness-day-to-be-marked-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/546478\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Motor Neurone Awareness Day To Be Marked This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 19 June 2026 17:49\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a3572cc3390efab9d0.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo credit: Facebook\/ Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The date coincides with the summer solstice,June 21st.\n        <\/p>\n<p>This Sunday will mark Global Motor Neurone Disease Awareness Day.<\/p>\n<p>The awareness day has been marked since 1997, with the date June 21st picked for the summer solstice which symbolises light and the resilience of the global MND community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Ireland, the Irish Motor Neurone Disease\u00a0association has been running the Voice for MND campaign to raise \u20ac21,000 for caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>Mullingar&#8217;s Todd Nugent is an\u00a0ambassador for the group and says it&#8217;s vital:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 19 June 2026 17:49 Photo credit: Facebook\/ Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association The date coincides with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[78],"tags":[19870,19869,18,135,19,17,19872,11763,3136,19868,3172,19867,5,3171,5485,19871],"class_list":["post-546478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-eire","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116787331065147644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546478","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=546478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}