{"id":30128,"date":"2019-01-28T12:10:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=30128"},"modified":"2019-01-28T12:10:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:10:37","slug":"community-radio-news-desk-wheelchair-users-street-accessibility-in-athlonewith-elaine-morrissey-john-tynan-and-tony-broderick-of-athlone-access-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=30128","title":{"rendered":"Community Radio News Desk &#8211; Wheelchair users\u2019 street accessibility in Athlonewith Elaine Morrissey, John Tynan and Tony Broderick of Athlone Access Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"_3vFF3xH4Yd\" dir=\"ltr\" data-test=\"textbox\">Have you ever thought about how difficult it is for wheelchair users to navigate footpaths and public walkways. Elaine Morrissey, whose 4 year old daughter is a wheelchair user, told Athlone Community radio\u2019s Irena Cvetkovic of the difficulties she encounters on a daily basis. Irena was joined in the studio by John Tynan and Tony Broderick of Athlone Access Awareness. Irena began by asking Elaine to explain her situation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-test=\"textbox\"><em>Broadcast: 22\/01\/2019<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6932\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Newsdesk-22-01-2019-003.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6932','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Newsdesk-22-01-2019-003.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\/Newsdesk-22-01-2019-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=30128-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Newsdesk-22-01-2019-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Newsdesk-22-01-2019-003.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 9:59 &#8212; 13.7MB)<\/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>Have you ever thought about how difficult it is for wheelchair users to navigate footpaths and public walkways. Elaine Morrissey, whose 4 year old daughter is a wheelchair user, told Athlone Community radio\u2019s Irena Cvetkovic of the difficulties she encounters on a daily basis. Irena was joined in the studio by John Tynan and Tony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6933\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Newsdesk-22-01-2019-003.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6933','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Newsdesk-22-01-2019-003.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\/Newsdesk-22-01-2019-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=30128-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Newsdesk-22-01-2019-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Newsdesk-22-01-2019-003.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 9:59 &#8212; 13.7MB)<\/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":29926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12772],"tags":[12965,12969,12963,12966,12967,12964,12968],"class_list":["post-30128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-radio-news-desk","tag-athlone-access-awareness","tag-difficulties-of-a-wheelchair-user","tag-elaine-morrissey","tag-irena-cvetkovic","tag-john-tynan","tag-tony-broderick","tag-wheelchair-user"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30128","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=30128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30129,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30128\/revisions\/30129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}