Keep Fit With Football In Fingal!

MARTIN DOYLE Fingal Council Sports Department Football Development Officer talks to Noel McGuinness about a new approach to getting people involved in sports. He says: “We have a team of sports officers who provide community support to community groups, clubs, schools and business groups. We aim to create lifelong patterns of involvement in sport and…

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The Voice Squad’s Phil Callery in Studio

Musician and Voice Squad member, PHIL CALLERY joins Noel McGuinness in studio. Phil talks about his love for music, his dislike of where music production has evolved to over the years, how he started with the Voice Squad, how he believes that Ireland is keeping its song writing traditions intact and his old slot in…

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Enda Kenny: Budget 2013 and the Central Statistics Office

Taoiseach ENDA KENNY speaks to Ger Leddin about the CSO figures released the week before and whether the figures will have a bearing on the 2013 budget. The Taoiseach says that, while the figures are encouraging, they will have very little bearing on the budget. Mr Kenny also says that the country is “in the…

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Life From The College Point Of View: News From DCU

SARAH BERMINGHAM, news editor of DCU’s College View newspaper joins Sabrina Ryan to share what are the main topics of this weeks newspaper. Sarah tells that the main article deals with antisocial behaviour attributed to DCU students in the local neighbourhoods surrounding DCU. They discuss whether DCU students are as troublesome as some other institutions…

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Axis in Ballymun Celebrate 10 Years With High Hopes Gig

Sound engineer JOE CLEAR and some of the musicians and technicians from Axis Theatre, Ballymun chat to Noel McGuinness about the forthcoming ‘High Hopes’ gig that will celebrate ten years of the Axis in Ballymun. This special gig will feature some of the finest young musicians from the Northside of the city who have been…

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European Community Radio Stations Meet In Sheffield 2012

Representatives from Basque Country, France and Ireland met in Sheffield to shared their experiences on environmental content in Community Radio. The meeting was hosted by Sangita Basudev of Sheffield Live and attended by Susana Albarran of Radio Vallekas, Patrice Berger of Radio Pleuriel & Radio d’ici St. Julien Molin Molette, Mikel Etxebarria of Radio Kultura,…

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Baldoyle Racecourse Community Garden

Baldoyle Racecourse Community Garden organizer JENNIFER NOTHER joins Yvette Reid to talk about how the community garden was put together. Jennifer talks of the committee that guided the project, how the garden operates,  how the community organize to meet at particular times of the month to carry out specific tasks such as cutting grass, her hopes of the garden growing in the…

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“Where the streets have two names” book

Barbara Jennings interviews PATRICK BROCKLEBANK photographer and author of the book “Where the streets have two names”. This book is  documenting U2’s early days, as well as the rise of other groups who were part of Dublin’s music scene at that time, such as: the Virgin Prunes, The Blades, The Black Catholics, The Undertones and The Buzzcocks…

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Deputy Mayor Brian McDowell from the Belmayne Allotments

Amanda Ni Ghabhann interviews Deputy Mayor BRIAN McDOWELL on the official opening of the Belmayne Allotments. residents they found there was a need for people to have space to have a garden, somewhere they could go to grow. It took 18 months to get the project running, so people from the area had space to have a garden, somewhere they could…

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Save our Dunes campaign

MAIRE O’BRIEN from the Portmarnock Community Association makes an appeal to individuals and sports clubs not to use the dunes for sporting activities, as it is having an adverse effect on the dunes. By running up and down the dunes, people are breaking up the dunes and taking away the grasses.  The sand then blows the…

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Women in Power Report

Noel McGuinness interviews PRIYA NATH, Policy and Advocacy Advisor, VSO International and Author of Women in Power. Their report brings together research carried out by VSO over the past number of years and put forwards recomendations about how the global society address this inequality to ensure that the role and participation of women in decision making is…

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Try Anything Twice With Grange Woodbine Drama Group

Following its sell-out night-night run in April in Chicago, William Rocke’s hilarious, laugh-a-line comedy ‘ Try Anything Twice!; is being directed by Phil Monaghan, who acted in its recent run for Grange Woodbine Drama Group in Raheny, and in the original 11 week run at at the Regency. Group Director THERESA CASHEN and author WILLIAM…

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Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society about Dublin Docks History

John Healy interviews DECLAN BYRNE from the Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society, which is delighted to tell the history of Dublin Docks. The Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society was set up in 2011 with the aim of preserving the history of Dublin Port. So far, it has amassed more than 1,000 photographs, and is still collecting them…

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