RONNIE O’ BRIEN speaks to cIlr CIAN O’ CALLAGHAN about the Holy WelL Swords school crossing…
Open Day at Colaiste Dhulaigh
Mark speaks to several people live at the Open Day in Colaiste Dhulaigh. He firstly speaks with MARY HICKEY, principal of Colaiste Dhulaigh. She talks about the recruitment for the upcoming year, the staff and students’ contribution to the open day, the courses they offer for people looking for additional skills and how such courses can help…
Raheny Residents Find Lead in the Waterworks
A HOME ON the street where the the first Dublin Says No protest took place has the highest level of lead contamination of drinking water in Dublin. Local resident TONY MacHALE gives Noel McGuinness the background to the findings. Results of random testing showed that the house on Watermill Drive in Raheny had lead contamination…
Educate Together on course for further growth
GERRY MCKEVITT of Educate Together tells Pat Meehan about the organisation’s growth over the past four decade. Educate Together was established as a multi-denominational school in the late 1970s. There are now 74 Educate Together schools in Ireland, and two second level schools as well as a new primary school in Bristol in the UK. The multi-denominational,…
Pyrite Campaign
JOHN HEALY speaks to PAT MEEHAN about pyrite in a Donnycarney complex & how Dublin City Council had to remove tenants from their homes & then rehouse them in another area…
Special needs assistants cut backs
PAT MEEHAN speaks with PAMELA MEATES who is a parent of a special needs child in Holy trinity school in Donaghmeade. They are talking about losing a special needs assistant due to cut backs…
Priorswood & District Mens Shed
Mark speaks to GEORGE FINGLAS from the Priorswood and District Mens Shed. He talks about the concept of Mens Shed, the conditions of being a member of Mens Shed, examples of what you can get out of it, the social events that they put together and how it’s handy that many members of the Mens…
Junior Entrepreneur Programme for Junior Dragons
John Healy and Fiona Nolan talk to AIDEEN TROY of the Junior Entrepreneur Programme who are calling on all North County Dublin Schools and Parents to get involved in the free Entrepreneurship Programme on Near FM’s Northside Today…
Love & War @ Bewley’s Cafe Theatre
Director MICHAEL JAMES FORD talks to Pat Meehan about the play ‘Love & War’ at Bewley’s Cafe Lunchtime Theatre. The play is 45 minutes long and is based on the love letters sent by an English artillery officer based in Flanders during WW1 and his sweetheart, an Athlone girl whom he met whilst doing his…
‘Cafe Conversations’ Launch Dublin Bid For 2020 City of Culture Status
The European Capital of Culture is awarded by the European Union for a period of one calendar year. In 2020, Ireland and Croatia have been announced as Europe’s chosen countries. A process of open competition will select the appointed city for each country. At a Mansion House event, which the Lord Mayor Christy Burke hosted…
Amy FitzPatrick Is Still Missing
The disappearance of Amy Fitzpatrick occurred on New Year’s Day 2008. At 10pm on that day, 15-year-old Irish girl Amy Fitzpatrick said goodbye to friend Ashley Rose, with whom she had been babysitting Ashley’s brother at her friend’s house in Mijas Costa in Málaga, Spain. Fitzpatrick should have arrived at her home on the urbanisation…
Facts and Fictions of TTIP
Mark speaks to AUDREY MCCREADY, former EU commission employee about the facts and fiction of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). She talks about her experiences whilst in the EU commission, her uncertainties about where the interpretations are coming from with regards to TTIP allegedly forcing companies to privatize public services, how the economic…
Learning about the Medical research council
MIKE CLARKE, Professor at Queens University joins Eoin Drinan, Mike explains his role in the MRC (Medical research council), a methodology review group which explores research that has been carried out around the world and brings it together to supply this research to people in the health and social care sector. Mike speaks of the…
UNESCOs Eco Friendly summer courses in Dublin
ECO UNESCO’s ELAINE NEVIN joins Noel McGuinness to talk about their sustainable development course and their other summer courses for young people. Elaine talks about the nature and activities of their children’s course, their FETAC accredited sustainable development course for adults, how younger people understand the idea of sustainable energy, the theme of their summer camps,…
Lir Free To Make Music Again
Noel McGuinness talks to RO BYRNE, lead guitarist with Lir, the band which is only now celebrating release from an onerous contract obligation that has dragged on for years. Ro says it is hard for young bands who only think about rock and roll to keep an eye on the business end of things. However,…
