John Healy speaks to GERARD WALSH, an unemployed bricklayer from Balbriggan who has come up with an invention “The Wheelie Bin Clip”. He tells us how he came up with this idea and how he use to put a brick on the bin to keep the lid down, but noticed one day how it wasn’t…
Noel McGuinness talks to GRAINNE DENNING, Fundraising manager of Threshold, about the Lughnasa Full Moon walk in aid of the homeless crisis in Ireland. This walk – in pre-Christian times – was somewhat of a match-making event that coincided with the harvest festival. The walk takes place around Glendalough. Threshold are facing ever-increasing demand for…
EMER CALLAGHAN speaks to Noel McGuinness about the “Failte go London”, a service for young Irish moving to London. Emer talks of the services they provide to help Irish people to get settled in London including putting them in contact with accommodation lettings, the information which she has gathered herself over the years that she aims to share, the…
NOEL McGUINNESS reports live from a water charge protest in Clare Hall. The police have been in attendance since early morning but seem somewhat ineffectual. The residents of Clare Hall and the Irish Water workers are in a stand-off position…
Mark speaks to MARIA JACKSON (Services Manager) and TOM O’BRIEN (Director) from KARE Social Services at one of KARE’s Food Kitchens in St Brigids Court, Killester. Maria and Tom talks about the objectives of the kitchens, what brought to be with KARE, how things have changed over the years with KARE, the importance of volunteers for KARE, their…
Conor speaks to SEAN SHERWIN who was a huge influence around the Thomas Kent funeral. He talks about how Kent was the one of the very few people executed outside of Dublin from the 1916 rising, his involvement in the rising with his brothers, how he was captured after the rising, how his mother kept…
JACK BYRNE, one of the founders of NearFM chats to John Healy about the station’s beginnings. North Dublin community radio station Near FM, which marks its 20th anniversary next week, had very humble beginnings. Its first studio was an empty car crate, wallpapered with egg boxes, located in a vacant school dormitory in Coolock. From…
Barbara speaks to LAURA at Walmer College and Holistic Centre, who teaches a number of holistic disciplines. She explains her understanding of the mind body connection and how Humans manifest the mental stresses of life in their physical body. She spoke of the products which they produce and sell on site…
PAT GUERIN talks to GRACE WILENTZ, Intercultural Dialogue through Community Media Coordinator at Near Media Co-op, on updates of the Intercultural Media project she is working on. In this segment, GRACE tells PAT how participants to the project are planning what they would be talking about within their programme and what feedback she is getting from…
Doctor ANNE MARIE HALPENNY of DIT’s Early Childhood education programme, joins Ger Leddin to discuss a recent call on the government, made by the Children Rights Alliance, to ban violence against children within the home, aimed at discouraging slapping or physical punishment in the disciplining of children in the home. Anne Marie speaks of a…
Noel speaks to KIERAN ALLEN (Kiruu), singer/songwriter. He talks about his background, how he started playing music, his involvement in different music projects to date, the diversity of his music, where you can find his music and what sort of music he listened to when he was younger. He plays his songs Sikupendi, a song about…
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…
John Healy speaks to DARYL BARREN who is local Fianna Fail rep for Beaumont /Donaghmeade area.He speaks about the job losses in Cadburys & the affect it will have on the community as most of the workers are from the Coolock area…
CONOR GOODMAN, Features Editor of the Irish Times, tells Noel McGuinness about the Times’ competition called ‘The Best Place To Live In Ireland’. The idea is simple enough. Entrants have only to write a short essay on why their own home town, city, village, townland, or simple cottage in a field is the best place…
BRIAN HAYES is an Irish Fine Gael politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Dublin since May 2014. He is a former Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South–West constituency, and served as Minister of State at the Department of Finance from 2011 to 2014. Here he talks to Mark Finnegan in an…