Pat Meehan is talking to PAT BOYLE Architect from Fingal City Council about EU Funding for Swords Castle. A total of €40 million in grant assistance is being provided for local authorities for designated gateway and hub towns across Ireland. Fingal County Council has welcomed the news that Swords is to be included in the…
Pat Meehan is talking to CEO PAUL KELLY about Consoles Cycling Against Suicide.The Console 24/7 Suicide Helpline is available to anyone who is in suicidal crisis, to anyone who is concerned for someone else who may be in suicidal crisis, and for those who have been bereaved by suicide. It is a free professional counselling…
Barbara Jennings is talking to MICK O’DEA artist and President of RHA (Royal Hibernian Academy) about his new exhibition ‘The Foggy Dew’, commemorating the events of the Easter Rising 1916 featuring a number of large monumental canvases alongside cardboard sculptures Mick O’Dea has decided to embrace the events of that Easter weekend in four monumental canvases sited in the vicinity of central…
Pat Meehan caught up with TOMMY BROUGHAN, TD, who had just begun his campaign for the upcoming General Election. Broughan will be contesting this election as an Independent, having formerly been a member of the Labour Party. His main objectives would be the creation of a new A&E at Beaumont Hospital, with additional staff, should…
John Healy talks to ANNA SMITH from Habitat for Humanity Ireland about about the work being carried out by the charity and the presentation of keys to a renovated house to a local couple. Lisa Obrien and partner waited to become a Habitat Homeowner for many years and they have been on the waiting list…
Noel McGuinness chats with JOHN LYONS from People Before Benefit about the Right2water campaign. The Right2Water campaign has called for a series of nationwide demonstrations to take place on Saturday, 23rd January 2016 – including a major demonstration in Dublin city centre. 2016 is going to be the year of change in Ireland and that change…
Mark Finnegan chats with RUARI MCKIERAN a social campaigner about the Corrib gas project. The Corrib gas project cuts to the core of this republic and asks big questions about how the country is run. For more than 10 years now, campaigners have attempted to highlight the project’s many flaws. It had been one of…
DONNA COONEY Green Party candidate for Dublin Bay North is chatting to Mark Finnegan about 2016 Election. She was a Dublin City Councillor from Jan.’96 to ’99The Sunday business post called Donna a “hard working councillor”. Donna was a Dublin City Councillor in the 90’s and Chair of the Cultural committee. Over the last twenty…
Noel McGuinness is talking to HEATHER BOURKE a Life Coach, Group Faciliator and Host of Conversation Salons about the First Fortnight Mental Health Arts Festival. This festival is a good way to deal with mental health issues and it tries to create in an artful way a good balanced atmosphere, so that it’s easier for…
Conor Doyle is chatting with author STEPHEN MOORE about his book ‘Pearse Street 100’, which chronicles a century of activity at the station and the stories of the men – and women – who served there down the years. From the 1916 Rising to Ned Broy and Michael Collins, from protecting the institutions of the new…
Noel Mc Guinness speaks with TERENCE FLANAGAN who is an independent TD . TERENCE talks to Noel about how he got involved with politics at a young age. He ...
27 Jan 2015
Mark Finnegan speaks to LINDA DEVLIN, a community development worker with Doras Bui. LINDA talks about the history of Doras Bui, including how was set up by lone ...
13 Apr 2015
Playwright HENRY HUDSON joins Pat Meehan to discuss the production of his play “The Locker Room” being presented at the Sean O’Casey Theatre in East Wall. Henry tells Pat ...
26 Aug 2013
Noel interviews ROHAN FELMINGHAM who’s traveled all over the world with his bike, and when he settled in Dublin for some months he had his bike and all his ...
07 Feb 2011
Conor Doyle talks to Dr ROISIN HIGGINS Senior Lecturer in History at Teeside University about her Talk “Who own the Easter Rising?” to be held in the Northside Civic ...
11 Feb 2016