BRIAN MONGHEY, organiser of the “Otherworld” Halloween Festival taking place at the Axis Centre in Ballymun, joins Eoin Drinan. The festival begins with a parade through the Ballymun estates leading to the Plaza where five marquees will be offering entertainment until 9pm culminating in a spectacular fireworks display. The annual festival was inaugurated in 1996…
Education For All Fair
John speaks to several people at the Education For All Fair at Parnell’s GAA Club, Coolock. John firstly speaks with PAUL HAYES from the Northside Partnership. He talks about the organisation put into the fair, the amount of schools participating in the fair and the idea of the defense forces participating. John then speaks with…
Citizens Information Centre , Medical & Long term Illness Cards
John Healy speaks to DONNA CORCORAN from the Citizens Information Centre about Medical & Long term illness cards. She talks about who is entitled to theses cards & goes through what other services you can avail of when you have these cards…
Dublin Zoo The Changes Over The years
Pat Meehan speaks to LEO OOSTERWEGHEL who is director of Dublin zoo about the changes that have taken place over the past twenty years, how it has transformed in to a world class centre of learning about wild life & conservation & how they had over one million visitors to the Zoo in 2014 breaking…
Niall Hatch, Birdwatch Ireland
Noel Mc Guinness speaks with NIALL HATCH from Birdwatch Ireland. NIALL talks about feeding birds in the cold weather & what type of food we should be feeding the birds when they come in to our gardens…
Volunteering in Kenya with the “Friends of Londiani”
ROSE HENNESSY from the Friends of Londiani speaks to John Healy about the “Harambee project”. Rose talks about the work that the Friends of Londiani does in Kenta, the lack of medical services and spaces in the Londiani area, the volunteers that come to help, how people can finance the trip and the results of…
Surveys of Parental Preferences on Primary School Patronage
Minister RUAIRI QUINN T.D. is interviewed here about the survey for parents in Whitehall. Surveys undertaken in five pilot areas on primary school patronage show that there is parental demand for a greater choice of patron in each town. The surveys were conducted in Arklow, Castlebar, Tramore, Trim and Whitehall as part of the Minister…
Live report from the Education Fair 2012
John speaks to a selection of participants at the Education Fair 2012 First up John speaks to PAUL HAYES of the Northside Partnership at the Education Fair in Parnell’s GAA club. They discuss what is happening at the event, including the 30 stalls present. Represented are UCD, DCU, Trinity College, Colaiste Dhulaigh, Killester College and…
Exhibition about the 1913 Lockout
Noel McGuinness interviews EOGHAN O’NEILL from R.A.D.E. (Recovery through Art, Drama and Education) about the Exhibition on the 1913 Lockout at Axis…
Upcoming events organized by the Improvised Music Company
Barbara Jennings interviews AOIFE CONCANNON from the Improvised Music Company, a non-profit resource for Jazz and Wold Music, and they organize two Jazz Festivals. One of them is coming soon, called Twelve Points, a festival for young European Jazz; it takes place in Dublin every second year and then in a random European in alternate years…
Declaring Bankruptcy
Sabrina Ryan interviews JILLIAN GODSIL who recently declared herself bankrupt, and tells how does she face this situation. She explains how she got into a project of creating a Guest House when her husband and her were quite successful with their works, making a huge invest that made sense at the moment. But suddenly she…
Walk to School Week
Sabrina Ryan interviews ALLY MENARY about the initiative called Walk to School Week, where they try to inform parents about the benefits of walking to school with the kids, avoiding the car when possible…
Business Information Centre
John Healy speaks to PETER O’REILLY of the Business Information Centre who are a reference service useful for people thinking of starting a business. They run the ‘Start your own business’ and career direction programme and were involved with the Innovation Dublin festival 2012. This years theme is ” Start your own business”. The course runs over…
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…
Winner of the young Scientist Award 2014
Noel McGuinness interviews PAUL CLARKE, student of St. Paul’s College and winner of the Young Scientist Award. He talks of his way to his success and how he come to do what he is doing now. He’ll be going to Silicon Valley as part of the prize to discover the work they do there…
