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MQI Blog

Find insightful and expert opinions on issues relating to homelessness and addiction. If you’d like to be featured on MQI’s blog, please contact Communications.

08 Jun 2023
Client blog: Behind Closed Doors

Client blog: Behind Closed Doors This letter comes directly from a Merchants Quay Ireland Jane’s Place client who asked to remain anonymous. “When I walked through that door, everything...
02 Nov 2022
High Retention Rate and Positive Response to Exercise Programme Aimed at People Experiencing Homelessness

High Retention Rate and Positive Response to Exercise Programme Aimed at People Experiencing Homelessness   Dr. Julie Broderick (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor at the Discipline of Physiotherapy in...
24 Jun 2022
LGBTQI+ Youth Homelessness

LGBTQI+ Youth Homelessness   Aideen Quilty is currently the Associate Dean of Social Sciences in UCD. She lectures in Gender and Social Justice and is the Director of the...
28 Mar 2022
Women and Substance Use

Women and Substance Use   Sarah Morton is Director of the Community Drugs Programme, School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice and Vice Principal of Teaching and...
28 Feb 2022
Chemsex and the Club Drugs Clinic Ireland

Chemsex and The Club Drugs Clinic Ireland   Dr. Kiran Santlal is a Registrar in Psychiatry. He previously worked in the HSE National Drug Treatment Centre from 2014 –...
07 Jul 2020
Going Back for the Ones Left Behind

Bringing comfort to where they lie Merchants Quay Ireland’s Assertive Outreach team walk the streets and parks of Dublin city centre every morning to check on people who’ve slept...
03 Mar 2020
Exploring the lived experience of addiction: A photovoice project

Exploring the lived experience of addiction: A photovoice project Dr Maria Quinlan is a sociologist who specialises in the use of creative, person-centred research methods that aim to facilitate...
20 Dec 2019
Client blog: Homeless at Christmas

Client blog: Homeless at Christmas This blog post comes directly from a Merchants Quay Ireland Homeless Services client who asked to remain anonymous.  Christmas is supposed to be spent...
30 Oct 2019
Long-term methadone maintenance treatment: Stigma and social isolation

Long-term methadone maintenance treatment: Stigma and social isolation Paula Mayock is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses...
06 Sep 2019
Supporting parents who use substances: Are the children to remain unseen and not heard?

Supporting parents who use substances: Are the children to remain unseen and not heard? Catherine Comiskey is a Professor in Healthcare Statistics at the School of Nursing and Midwifery,...
13 Aug 2019
Stop the Stigma – A community campaign

Stop the Stigma – A community campaign Anna Quigley is a Co-ordinator of CityWide and acts as the community sector representative on a number of national bodies. This week...
10 Jul 2019
The health impact of homelessness and addiction

The health impact of homelessness and addiction Dr Jo-Hanna Ivers is Assistant Professor in Addiction. She is based at Trinity College since 2009 and prior to this she worked...
20 Jun 2019
Homelessness and access to mental health services

  Ray Burke is the Senior Communications and Advocacy Officer with Mental Health Reform.   Homelessness and access to mental health services Access to secure and long-term housing is...
14 Jun 2019
Mental health, homelessness and MQI

Mental Health, homelessness and MQI Dr Joanne Fenton is a board member at Merchants Quay Ireland. She is a consultant perinatal psychiatrist at the Coombe Women’s & Infants University...
05 Apr 2019
Mental Health, Addiction and Trauma

Mental Health, Addiction and Trauma   Dr Sharon Lambert, Applied Psychology, University College Cork Sharon Lambert joined the school of Applied Psychology in 2015 following a number of years...
15 Mar 2019
Malnutrition in the homeless population

Malnutrition in the homeless population | Dr Sharon Kennelly Sharon Kennelly is a Clinical Specialist Dietitian working in the HSE Primary Care Service Improvement Programme.  She has a PhD...
22 Feb 2019
Interview: Dr. Clíona Ní Chealliagh on inclusion medicine for people who are homeless

Dr Clíona Ni Cheallaigh is consultant and clinical lead for the Inclusion Health research service at St James’s Hospital, Dublin. Her work focuses on ensuring that people who are...