JOHN DUNNE of the Viking Sub-Aqua Club chats with Noel McGuinness about some unusual dives. Viking Sub Aqua Club is a Dublin-based scuba diving club. They meet every wednesday night, 9 to 10pm, in the Coolmine Sports & Leisure Centre, Grove Road, Dublin 15. VSAC has been in existence since 1976. Affiliated to the Irish…
BEO Trad and Ballad Festival
Lisa talks to MARK O’BRIEN from the Axis Theatre, Ballymun about the BEO Trad and Ballad Festival. He talks about the community initiative that brought the festival to take place, the artists that will be performing and other events such as workshops that will take place in the festival. He also talks about the idea…
Dublin One City One Book: Strumpet City
JANE ALGER, director of the UNESCO City of Literature programme, speaks to John Healy about the purpose of the programme. Jane talks about what the programme encourages, the book that the programme are celebrating this year, the events that they put together that connect to the book, the plot of the book itself based on the…
Celebrating The Liberties: Festival 2013
Liberties Festival Director MICHAEL CONLON joins John Healy to speak about the Liberties Festival. Michael paints picture of the Liberties area and what makes it unique. He also talks about musician Imelda May’s links to the area and the Festival itself. Michael highlights the “Liberties international people of the year” project. This looks at what…
New Exhibition At The Doorway Gallery
Barbara Jennings joins DENISE DONNELLY on walkabout at the Doorway Gallery in South Frederick Street. They look two works by Jackie Edwards. The first is an oil painting called “Power of One” and the second features a man completely covered tattoos. They then look at some ceramic works by artist Christy Keaney. They also investigate…
Bram Stoker House up for Sale
Pat Meehan talks to local historian DENIS MCINTYRE about the proposed sale of Bram Stoker’s house in Marino Crescent. Denis argues that Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, should be recognised by the State in the form of the house being purchased buy the State as a heritage site and the property turned into a museum…
Artane Man Alan Bracken Joins Fianna Fáil National Executive
ALAN BRACKEN comes into Near FM to chat with Mark Finnegan. Alan was elected to the Fianna Fáil National Executive last week. “I was delighted to be elected and now hope to get Fianna Fáil moving in Dublin once again. Fianna Fáil must work hard to show an alternative in communities across the country. I…
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…
Aontas “Adult Learning Festival” preview
BERNIE GALLAGHER speaks to John Healy about the “Love to Learn” bus organised by Aontas. She explains how the event was a success and tells of upcoming events to promote adult learning as part of the Aontas “Adult Learners Festival”. Bernie encourages people to attend and bring a friend and to use the events as…
Viewing Ireland From The Air
RAY SCANLON, Principal Geologist with the Geological Survey of Ireland talks to Noel McGuinness about the Tellus survey. Tellus employs a low-flying aircraft to collect geophysical information on the properties of soils, rocks and waters below gound. Flying at 60 m, the aircraft is able to sense geological properties not apparent from conventional mapping techniques,…
NEAR Media Co-op Round Up December 2013
DAVE O CONNOR, secretary of the NEAR Media Co-op, gives Noel McGuinness a round up of events at the co-op in the previous months. Dave says it has been a tough year financially for the sector but that thankfully NEAR has been able to keep going. Dave tells of the Sound and Vision fund, to…
Dublin City Council Easter Tea Dance
John Healy speaks to MADELINE EBBS from Dublin city council about the upcoming Easter tea dance taking place in parnells in Coolock on the 26th March. This month Connor Doyle will give a talk on the theatre royal for the first hour & theN music with the Moynihan brothers with all the show band music…
My Autistic Son
Pat Meehan talks to PAMELA MEATES about her autistic son, Evan. They discuss how Evan needs additional structure and routine in summer months when he’s not in school. Pamela explains how even small changes to her sons’ day can be very upsetting for Evan and is trying to teach him to adapt to changes in life…
New Cycle Path Opens Dublin Coast From Sutton To Sandymount
RENUA Ireland TD, TERENCE FLANAGAN welcomes news that construction work began on the Dublin Bay cyclepath in Clontarf this week. Chatting to Pat Meehan, he says: “There is currently no designated cyclepath from the Wooden Bridge to Causeway Road in Clontarf and as a result of this cyclists have to come off the cyclepath onto…
Irish/Polish Film Festival 2011
Noel interviews ANNA POSPIESZYNSKA, who explains how they decided to create the Irish/ Polish Film Festival in Filmbase, Curved Street, as a pilot inside the bigger Play Poland festival happening in different cities around UK, with the main goal of promoting independent films and filmmakers…