Explore Your Archive

Conor speaks to ELLEN MURPHY, senior archivist with Dublin City Libraries about the “Explore Your Archive” campaign. She talks about the idea and details of the campaign, the people who will be speaking at the events, their theatre collection that they will have on display, how they will ensure that all items will be in…

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Dumping At Sea Campaign

Barbara speaks to DONNA COONEY from the “Dumping at Sea” campaign in Dublin Bay. She talks about why the campaign was set up, the dangers that the dumped waste could do, what they plan to do during the campaign, why the government don’t realize the dangers and how many communities would be affected. She also…

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The Music Man Comes to St Mary’s Baldoyle

Mark Finnegan is joined by Transition year (TY) students SOPHIE O’ROURKE and SHANNON O’CONNOR along with Head Teacher SIOBHAN O’CONNELL from St Mary’s Secondary School in Baldoyle. Each year the TY students take part in a Transition Year Musical, this year’s production is The Music Man, The show will be a fantastic night of entertainment…

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Life of an Au Pair in Ireland

Sabrina Ryan interviews AURORA MARTINEZ, demi au pair at the moment that will explain the life of an Au Pair in Ireland. She explains the main reason of so many girls to come as Au Pairs to Ireland, as well as pros and cons of finding a host family via an agency or by yourself…

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Christmas Pop-up Shop for St Michaels House

John Healy interviews DEIRDRE WALSH from St Michaels House, about the Christmas Pop-up Shop to raise money for the two centre of Santry Centres, and how the service users decided to help out another good cause, and they chose the Children Hospital in Crumlin. She also wanted to thank the Near FM listeners for the response and all…

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Plans to create an Urban Beach in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin

TIM RYAN operations officer with Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company speaks to Eoin about the plans to create “The Urban Beach” in Dun Laoghaire Harbour, which will have heated and treated sea water. Tim also shares that there will be a larger Urban beach area close by which will feature cafe and showering facilities. Tim speaks…

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Two meerkats born at Dublin Zoo in 2012

EDDIE O’BRIEN from Dublin Zoo joins Paula Wiseman on the phone to discuss the arrival of two meerkats pups at the zoo in recent days. Eddie begins by sharing some history of the Zoo itself and paints a picture of his job as team leader at the zoo. We hear that there are 58 full…

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Anti-Eviction Taskforce

Pat Meehan talks to PATRICK GRANT, from the Anti-Eviction Taskforce, about what the group is, its aims and its activities related to home evictions and repossessions…

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Sonairte Present “Grow it yourself” Workshops in Co Meath

TREVOR SARGENT of Sonairte Volunteer Centre joins Pat Meehan to discuss a number of “Grow it yourself” workshops taking place at Laytown, County Meath. They discuss Sonairte’s work over the last 25 years and some recent projects, including a recent “Foraging for Wild Food” course. Trevor tells Pat what will be covered in the upcoming…

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Festival of Flowers in Malahide

VICTOR BLACK, director of the Festival of Flowers in St Doolough’s Church in Malahide talks to Pat about the logistical problems involved in putting together a top-class floral event. This 2014 Malahide show brought together top flower arrangers from all over Ireland to display their art to a very wide audience. The international flower show…

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Visiting Killester Christmas Craft Fair 2013

PAULINE O’REGAN joins Barbara Jennings at the Killester Crafts Fair in St Brigid’s Resource Centre. Pauline tells Barbara about the facilities that the Centre provides and how it came to be. Apparently a lot of singing and dancing goes on there in popular theatre events, as well as activities like tai chi and yoga. They…

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Brian Moss on Transparency in the Charity sector and the State of the Nation address 2013

BRIAN MOSS, journalist, joins Sabrina Ryan beginning by discussing Enda Kenny’s “State of the Nation” address, telling how he agrees with the government suggestion to stay course with the policies of the time. He talks of personally seeing an upturn in the social activities in the South of Dublin. They briefly discuss what the Taoiseach…

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