CIARA CAVANAGH joins Noel McGuiness to discuss the Offbeat Ensemble, a new community string orchestra. Ciara explains the genesis of the group. She tells how the main aim of the group is to encourage people who have never played an instrument before can join up and “give it a go”. Ciara explains that there will…
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Pat Meehan talks to PATRICK GRANT, from the Anti-Eviction Taskforce, about what the group is, its aims and its activities related to home evictions and ...
28 Nov 2011
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ITA BRADSHAW of the Citizens’ Information Centre joins John Healy in studio. They begin by discussing details of the local property tax for 2013 and the actions which property ...
23 Oct 2013
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Noel speaks to FERGUS SHEIL, a conductor involved in a series of short operas in public places in Dublin called “Things We Throw Away”. He speaks about how it ...
27 Jun 2014
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Noel Mc Guinness interviews JOHN PRIDMORE, who talks about his checkered past as a London gangster and about how he uses his life experience to work with the Ayrfield ...
13 Dec 2011
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Mark speaks to PAUL REDMOND, writer of the song “Come Men Of Erin” from the musical “The Promise”. He talks about the gathering of people he got to record ...
21 Dec 2015