Water Charges & TTIP Meeting In Parnells

John Healy speaks to MICHAEL O’ BRIEN about a meeting taking place in parnells club about water charges & TTIP. Joe Higgins will be giving an indroucetery  talk on the TTIP agreement & about how the government are saying they will never privitise irish water…

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See Strasbourg and Enjoy Life

Strasbourg is the capital and largest city of the Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine (ACAL) region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace were historically predominantly Alemannic-speaking with various dialects, hence the…

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Launch of ‘Portraits of Dunnes Stores Strikers’

Barbara Jennings is reporting from the Hugh Lane Gallery about the ‘Portraits of the Dunnes Stores Strikers ‘ and is talking with the photographer  of this GARRETT PHELAN. This portraits of the 11 Irish Dunnes Stores strikers who, on following a directive issued by the Irish Distributive and Administrative Trade Union in 1984, requesting their…

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President Higgins Visits St Thomas School, Clonshaugh

Principal BERNIE McCLUSKY and students from St Thomas’s School in Clonshaugh talk to Barbara Jennings about the President’s visit on the 30th anniversary of the school. St Thomas’s is unusual in that it is a targeted educational initiative for Travellers. Young Traveller people are accessing education here as part of the process of increasing equality…

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Dublin Festival of History 2013

Tara Doyle, organiser of the Dublin Festival of History, joins Eoin Drinan to discuss this year’s programme of events. Tara says the idea is to create spaces for people to attend workshops with authors and historians and talk around historical topics. Tara says there has been a lot of interest from people travelling to Ireland…

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Clondarkin Towers Refugee Centre

Mark Finnegan talks with WAHEED MOHIUDDIN from the Clondarkin Towers Refugee Centre. Waheed came to Ireland as a refugee from Pakistan in 2015. He talks about current attitudes towards refugees/immigrants and some ways these could be changed. Waheed also talks about why he left Pakistan…

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Jonathen Lynam is seeking help for his disabled Father

Pat Meehan speaks to JONATHEN LYNAM, JONATHEN speaks about his disabled father who got both his legs amputated in Beaumont Hospital due to an illness. He is seeking help from the Dublin city council to get the house adapted so his father cam come home. The family have been told there will be no funding…

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Volunteer Ireland

BARBARA JENNINGS speaks with JOHN, KERRY, ROBBIE, GILLIAN, NIALL, & STEPHEN from Volunteer Ireland in Northside Shopping Centre, where they are having an open day & are looking for people to become volunteers…

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Amy FitzPatrick Is Still Missing

The disappearance of Amy Fitzpatrick occurred on New Year’s Day 2008. At 10pm on that day, 15-year-old Irish girl Amy Fitzpatrick said goodbye to friend Ashley Rose, with whom she had been babysitting Ashley’s brother at her friend’s house in Mijas Costa in Málaga, Spain. Fitzpatrick should have arrived at her home on the urbanisation…

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North channel swim from Ireland to Scotland

FERGAL SOMERVILLE joins Noel McGuinness in studio to discuss his successful swim of the North Channel from Co.Down to Scotland. Fergal begins by sharing information of the various causes he has donated to as part of charity swims. On 16th of June he swam the channel and talks about being successful in only getting stung…

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Local Artist

BARBARA JENNINGS speaks to local artist PADRAIG PARLE about an exhibition taking place in the Origin Gallery in Dublin city centre . He talks about his paintings, which are a take on the celtic tiger…

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Lake drilling for Organisms by the British Antarctic Survey 2012

Eoin Drinan speaks to Doctor DAVID PEARCE microbiologist from the British Antarctic Survey about the project and where it began. They speak about how “waterbodies” found in the area may contain life. Now that drilling techniques have advanced they speak about the possibility of drilling up to 3 km down into the ice. Temperatures make…

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