{"id":48740,"date":"2025-09-28T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/48740\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T12:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:46:09","slug":"for-years-i-couldnt-talk-about-her-filmmaker-david-merriman-on-his-mothers-death-by-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/48740\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018For years, I couldn\u2019t talk about her\u2019: filmmaker David Merriman on his mother\u2019s death by suicide"},"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\">Co-director of Jim Sheridan\u2019s forthcoming film about Ian Bailey on what he describes as a bomb going off in his teenage years\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Merriman.  Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2ad334bb-cb00-4b95-ad02-c178be6f77f6.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)\">David Merriman.  Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/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)\">David Merriman can still remember the last time he saw his mother Elizabeth alive. He was 19, and it was a sunny Tuesday morning in July 1995.<\/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)\">\u201cThe day that my mom took her life, I was ironing, and she came in and she said, \u2018Will you iron my shirt?\u2019. I said yes, and then she hugged me and told me she loved me and kissed me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Co-director of Jim Sheridan\u2019s forthcoming film about Ian Bailey on what he describes as a bomb going off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,7114,61,60,6083,618],"class_list":["post-48740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ian-bailey","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-niamh-horan","tag-sophie-toscan-du-plantier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}