This Weeks Stories From The North Count Leader Paper

Noel Mc Guinness speaks to PATRICK FINNEGAN from the North  county leader paper to update us with the stories from this weeks issue. They start of  with the minister James Reilly who will open a new computer room for the youths of Swords, also about the new Lidl that will be opening & finally PATRICK…

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Culture Night 2012 – preview

Barbara speaks about Culture Night 2012 live from Lemon Jelly restaurant on Millennium way[REPORTER PHONE CRACKLE PRESENT THROUGHOUT]. She speaks to DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN who started Culture Night originally back in 2004 as a small event which has since grown into a very large annual project. They speak about the history of the event and more…

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Howth Sea Angling Club

DEREK EVANS from the Howth Sea Angling Club talks with NOEL MCGUINNESS about the Howth Club House and the different events that they organise from the Sea Angling Club…

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Dublin Bus Community Spirit Awards

GER LEDDIN from Dublin Bus talks to John about that organisation’s initiative ‘the Dublin Bus Community Spirit Awards’ that is designed to put the excess ticket payments that accumulate over the years to good use in the community…

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A Suspicious ‘School For Spies’ in Dungarvan

Journalist GER LEDDIN joins Sabrina Ryan to discuss the “School for Spies”, an international conference held every second year in Co Waterford for members of the global security organisations such as the FBI and CIA. The conference’s appearance in Dungarvan is the result of Dungarvan ‘twinning’ with a town in the USA. Ger says there…

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Launch of The Bohemians Foundation

Mark Finnegan reports about the Launch of The Bohemians Foundation, which is an independent non-profit organisation intent on improving the health and well-being of its North Dublin community. The Foundation was officially launched by Lord Mayor of Dublin Críona Ní Dhálaigh at the Mansion House. At this event Mark catches a few interviews with LARRY…

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Jack & Jill Foundation At Work

The Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation provides direct funding, to families of children with brain damage up to the age of 4 who suffer severe intellectual and physical developmental delay, enabling them to purchase home respite care. They also provide end of life care to all children up to the age of four years. The…

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Tree Planting for Chernobyl Kids

Pat Meehan talks to VANESSA KENNERNEY, from Chernobyl North Dublin Outreach Group, about the initiative of planting 25 trees for the children of Chernobyl in the Backweston Campus, Celbridge (Co. Kildare), as well as giving updates about the situation 25 years after the nuclear accident…

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Totally Terrific Tomato Festival Introduces New Breeds

Noel McGuinness talks to NICKY KYLE about putting together a local festival called Totally Terrific Tomato Festival. This is the first such festival in Dublin. With rising interest in new and exotic foods, the time seems right for such an event. Tomatoes are very good for you and are great at warding off cancer. There…

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Introduction of “Free Wifi hotspots” in Dublin city centre

ANDREW SMYTH joins Pat Meehan to discuss “Free Wifi” spots being introduced to the main shopping thoroughfares in Dublin city centre and the positive implications of this. They talk of how sustainable keeping the hotspots as a “free service” might be and also discuss the benefits to wifi providers,through advertisement etc, being used to create…

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Minister for Communications on Lima Climate Conference

Jack Byrne interviews ALEX WHITE, Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. Alex White, is a Labour TD for Dublin South, and a Senior Counsel. He attended the Conference on Climate Change in Lima, Peru. The Lima conference was designed to set the agenda for the Paris Conference on Climate Change scheduled for December 2015. It was…

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Public meetings about Sewage plants proposal in Clonshaugh

Sabrina Ryan interviews JOE JONES from Reclaim Fingal Alliance, about the proposal to build huge sewage plants in Clonshaugh, which would affect directly their family business, which happened many of his neighbors; he explains the huge mobilization happening all around the area and how they all are gathering in public meetings…

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Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society

Conor Doyle speaks to JIMMY CARTHY & ALAN MARTIN from Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society about the upcoming meeting, which will include keeping cranes down in the docks instead of knocking them down. ALAN & JIMMY are looking for photographs & memorabilia from the docks. There is a lot of history from Dublin Port to date. On…

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