{"id":24520,"date":"2017-12-11T12:11:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T12:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=24520"},"modified":"2017-12-11T12:11:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T12:11:30","slug":"the-work-of-merchants-quay-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=24520","title":{"rendered":"The Work of Merchants Quay Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Geoghegan, Chief Executive of Merchants Quay Ireland (MQI) talks to Noel McGuinness. He explains that MQI offer a wide variety of services to people who are homeless, hungry and those struggling with addiction. Their Open Access Centre provides a seven day a week meal service, primary healthcare and drug related services. In addition MQI have rehab and detox centres at St. Francis Farm, Co. Carlow and High Park, Drumcondra. There is supported housing for aftercare. MQI also provide an addiction counselling service in prisons across Ireland. See also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mqi.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=es&amp;q=https:\/\/www.mqi.ie\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1513073514010000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF6mzsm7vx2pn7mGooTVy0RQz3mUA\">https:\/\/www.mqi.ie\/<\/a>\u00a0or phone 01 524 0924.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-8-12-2017-001.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6600','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-8-12-2017-001.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-8-12-2017-001.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=24520-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-8-12-2017-001.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Northsidetoday-8-12-2017-001.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 18:57 &#8212; 26.0MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Geoghegan, Chief Executive of Merchants Quay Ireland (MQI) talks to Noel McGuinness. He explains that MQI offer a wide variety of services to people who are homeless, hungry and those struggling with addiction. Their Open Access Centre provides a seven day a week meal service, primary healthcare and drug related services. In addition MQI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6601\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-8-12-2017-001.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6601','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-8-12-2017-001.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-8-12-2017-001.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=24520-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-8-12-2017-001.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Northsidetoday-8-12-2017-001.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 18:57 &#8212; 26.0MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,33,44,5611],"tags":[2021,8824,2148,2205,2239,3091],"class_list":["post-24520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-currentaffairs","category-general","category-listenagain","category-northside-today","category-northside-today-2","tag-merchants-quay-ireland","tag-mqi","tag-near-fm","tag-noel-mcguinness","tag-northside-today","tag-tony-geoghegan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24521,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24520\/revisions\/24521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}