{"id":60636,"date":"2026-04-17T14:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=60636"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:55:06","slug":"life-unfiltered-dr-ray-oneill-on-alcohol-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=60636","title":{"rendered":"LIFE Unfiltered &#8211; Dr Ray O&#8217;Neill on Alcohol Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Life Unfiltered - Dr Ray O&#039;Neill On Alcohol Addiction\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fnearfm%2Flife-unfiltered-dr-ray-oneill-on-alcohol-addiction%2F&amp;hide_cover=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media; fullscreen; autoplay; idle-detection; speaker-selection; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"v1p1\"><span class=\"v1s1\">This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale sat down with DCU&#8217;s Assistant Professor of psychotherapy Dr Ray O&#8217;Neill to talk about Ireland&#8217;s deeply complicated relationship with alcohol &#8211; not just the statistics, but the culture underneath.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"v1p1\"><span class=\"v1s1\">They discussed how addiction so often functions as a hiding place and also explored the ripple effect of addiction through families, through children who grow up managing everyone else&#8217;s feelings. You can find out more about Dr. Ray O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s practice at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.machna.ie\">www.machna.ie<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale sat down with DCU&#8217;s Assistant Professor of psychotherapy Dr Ray O&#8217;Neill to talk about Ireland&#8217;s deeply complicated relationship with alcohol &#8211; not just the statistics, but the culture underneath.\u00a0 They discussed how addiction so often functions as a hiding place and also explored the ripple effect of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":57124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8387,193,854,27899,26438,2506],"class_list":["post-60636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listenagain","tag-alcohol","tag-alcohol-addiction","tag-dcu","tag-dr-ray-oneill","tag-maria-mchale","tag-psychotherapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60636","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\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60637,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60636\/revisions\/60637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}