{"id":25407,"date":"2018-02-21T12:20:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T12:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=25407"},"modified":"2018-02-21T12:20:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T12:20:26","slug":"lifeline-interview-with-councillor-mark-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=25407","title":{"rendered":"Lifeline: Interview with Councillor Mark Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On this edition of Lifeline:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael Hennessy speaks with Councillor Mark Ward of Sinn Fein, who was diagnosed with\u00a0 Multiple Sclerosis in 2005 at the age 31. He was on a walking stick at age 32 and suffered from depression and other issues relating to the diagnosis. Slowly he started to change his life around, went to college, got a degree, became a\u00a0Behavioral\u00a0Therapist, and has gone on to help many people. Now he is going to run the Dublin City Marathon. Mark will be telling us about his journey.<\/p>\n<p><em>Presenter: Michael Hennessy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Guest: Councillor Mark Ward<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3556\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Lifeline-21-02-18-001.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3556','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Lifeline-21-02-18-001.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\/Lifeline-21-02-18-001.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=25407-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Lifeline-21-02-18-001.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Lifeline-21-02-18-001.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 12:45 &#8212; 17.5MB)<\/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>On this edition of Lifeline: Michael Hennessy speaks with Councillor Mark Ward of Sinn Fein, who was diagnosed with\u00a0 Multiple Sclerosis in 2005 at the age 31. He was on a walking stick at age 32 and suffered from depression and other issues relating to the diagnosis. Slowly he started to change his life around, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3557\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Lifeline-21-02-18-001.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3557','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Lifeline-21-02-18-001.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\/Lifeline-21-02-18-001.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=25407-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Lifeline-21-02-18-001.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Lifeline-21-02-18-001.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 12:45 &#8212; 17.5MB)<\/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":23068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,32,33],"tags":[9610,1865,7655,2152,9611],"class_list":["post-25407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-currentaffairs","category-general","category-lifeline-2","category-listenagain","tag-councillor-mark-ward","tag-lifeline","tag-michael-hennessy","tag-nearfm-2","tag-sclerosis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25407","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=25407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25408,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25407\/revisions\/25408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}