Limerick City celebrates Autism awareness

Staff at from Guineys Department Store marking World Autism Day.
Staff at from Guiney's Department Store marking World Autism Day in Limerick City.

IT WAS all go in Limerick city on Tuesday when Dรณchas Mid West, the local Autism charity, partnered with several local businesses to celebrate World Autism Day.

This is an international initiative to raise awareness about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a condition that affects approximately 1 in 65 children in Ireland.

Guineyโ€™s department store hosted the Limerick 95 FM afternoon show to celebrate World Autism and generously donated ten per cent of their Super Tuesday sales to Dรณchas Mid-West.

Supervalu Castletroy also hosted Dรณchas Mid-West in their store as part of Supervaluโ€™s national campaign in partnership with AsIAm.ie, striving to create more inclusive communities and offering free home delivery to the Autism community for April.

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Several other stores including Tony Connollyโ€™s in Patrickโ€™s Street and Crescent Shopping Centre, Planters Deli, Parkway, Amber Service Station, Kilmallock Road and Elm Court Service Station, Ballyneety got behind Dรณchasโ€™ Autism Awareness Day campaign by wearing Dรณchas t-shirts and selling Dรณchas merchandise in their stores.

Bellissimo Limerickย andย Charlotte Tilbury, Brown Thomas donated nail technicians and makeup artists for a coffee morning to pamper some of the local ASD mums at an open day in Dรณchas Mid-West centre on 14 Parnell Street.

Deirdre Power, Dรณchas Centre Manager said, โ€œThis has been an actioned packed Autism Day in Limerick! A huge thank you for the support of the local businesses, they have been fantastic in helping us raise awareness and understanding of Autism in the Mid-West Region.โ€