Live from Darndale Belcamp Summer Festival

Tony Captain and John Healy interview LINDA HAYDEN, Manager of the Darndale Belcamp Village Centre, who celebrated their 10th anniversary with a Summer Festival; in these years they managed to become one of the biggest community centres in Europe…

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An Overview Of The Irish Coastline

MICHAEL WALSH is the Regional Coordinator for North Dublin for Coastwatch Ireland. He tells Pat Meehan that Coastwatch aims for informed public participation in environmental protection and management, especially in the coastal zone. He says that the Coastwatch annual survey is now used in 23 European countries. The survey is designed to give an overview…

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Austin McCoy, candidate for Ballymun in local elections

Noel McGuinness interviews AUSTIN McCOY, independent candidate for Ballymun in the upcoming local elections. He has stepped up to try and bring the senior citizens voices to the elections. He aims to show the reality of the senior citizens, for example of how the property tax and water bills are specially affecting them. He doesn’t want to align with…

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Clontarf Players

Noel Mc Guinness speaks to BREFFNI MC GUINNESS from the Clontarf players who are a group of actors who are interested in drama & acting from the Clontarf & Northside  area. BREFFNI   talk’s about the Easter play ” The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot, written by local man Sean Walsh. This play takes the…

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LIFT Ballymun Youth Arts Festival 2014

Noel McGuinness interviews DEAN SCURRY, FARREL LIDA and MICHAEL PEAL from the Ballymun Youth Action Project, organizers of the LIFT Ballymun Youth Arts Festival. Dean is a facilitator for the Creative Space of the festival, giving the chance to everyone to explore different arts and show all their creativity, where he has met young boys like Farrel and Michael. Farrell…

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North channel swim from Ireland to Scotland

FERGAL SOMERVILLE joins Noel McGuinness in studio to discuss his successful swim of the North Channel from Co.Down to Scotland. Fergal begins by sharing information of the various causes he has donated to as part of charity swims. On 16th of June he swam the channel and talks about being successful in only getting stung…

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Traditional Music from the EU concerts in Dublin

Noel McGuinness is joined in studio by PAUL LOUGHRAN and a number of musicians from the EU. It begins with a performance from the Hartz Mountain Yodellers. The musicians are in Dublin to perform a series of concerts which Paul gives all of the details for including a live broadcast on Near FM and subsequent…

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Swords Men’s Shed

Noel Mc Guinness talks to MICK KELLY & MICHAEL QUINN about Sword’s men’s shed that was set up a year ago. They tell us how it was set up with the help from Louise Edmond’s from the community department of Fingal  county council. Between them they set up the first meeting & from there they…

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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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Crystal Meth in Dublin

PAT GUERIN talks to TONY GEOGHEGAN, Director of Merchants Quay Ireland, on the arrival and the spread of crystal meth and other drugs in Dublin, as well as the effects and consequences of their use…

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2012 Predictions for the Sam Maguire Cup

FERGUS CARROLL talks to Noel McGuinness about the forthcoming 2012 All-Ireland Football Final, the 125th event of its kind and the culmination of the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, to be played at Croke Park, Dublin, on 23 September 2012. Nonlegal and Mayo, widely considered “one of the most novel final pairings of all time”…

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Crisis in Iraq

JIM ROCHE of the Irish Anti-War Movement talks to Pat Meehan about the growing threat of war in the Middle East and the part that The US an UK governments are playing in arming the potential antagonists using ISIS as a catalyst. Oil is a major motivator in this political manouevering says JIM. And the…

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