Tony Geoghegan

Tony Geoghegan has worked in the addiction arena for the past thirty years both here in Ireland and in Britain. Tony was CEO of Merchants Quay Ireland, Drugs and Homeless Services for 28 years. MQI was founded by the Franciscans in 1989 as a response to the growing issues of problem drug use and homelessness in Ireland.

He has worked across a range of different treatment modalities and settings from crisis intervention, including needle exchange, to day counselling services and on to residential drug free therapeutic communities and aftercare and resettlement programmes. He is an accredited addiction counsellor and clinical supervisor and is a former Chairman of the A.C. I. (Addiction Counsellors of Ireland). He is currently the Irish representative on the Council of Europe’s, Pompidou Group’s Expert Group on Drug Policies and Human Rights: self-assessment tool. He holds a Diploma in Addiction Studies from Trinity College and an M.A. in Social Policy.