Barbara Jennings talks to MARGARET BECKER about her 1916 exhibition on Near FM’s Northside Today with John Healy. Almost fifty Printmakers from eight Printmaking studios around Ireland have accepted an invitation to participate in the project, which aims to create awareness of little known events or incidents during or around the time of the Easter…
Yearly Archives: 2016
Sunrise Foundation – Integration of local newcomers into the community
John Healy talks to MATILDA CHONGWA from the Sunrise Foundation, a non-profit organisation to facilitate integration and full participation of newcomers into the community focusing on serious challenges like poverty, lack of education and inclusion. Our main aim is to facilitate the integration and full participation of the locals as well as newcomers into the…
Clondarkin Towers Refugee Centre
Mark Finnegan talks with WAHEED MOHIUDDIN from the Clondarkin Towers Refugee Centre. Waheed came to Ireland as a refugee from Pakistan in 2015. He talks about current attitudes towards refugees/immigrants and some ways these could be changed. Waheed also talks about why he left Pakistan…
Dublin Action Plan for Jobs – Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Mark Finnegan is talking to RICHARD BRUTON minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation about Dublin Action Plan for Jobs, part of €250million regional jobs strategy. The Government launches the Dublin Action Plan for Jobs, aimed at delivering 10-15% employment growth in the capital over the coming years. The Government was launching plan in Butler’s chocolate…
EU Funding for Swords Castle
Pat Meehan is talking to PAT BOYLE Architect from Fingal City Council about EU Funding for Swords Castle. A total of €40 million in grant assistance is being provided for local authorities for designated gateway and hub towns across Ireland. Fingal County Council has welcomed the news that Swords is to be included in the…
Cycling Against Suicide – Console
Pat Meehan is talking to CEO PAUL KELLY about Consoles Cycling Against Suicide.The Console 24/7 Suicide Helpline is available to anyone who is in suicidal crisis, to anyone who is concerned for someone else who may be in suicidal crisis, and for those who have been bereaved by suicide. It is a free professional counselling…
Exhibition ‘The Foggy Dew’ at Royal Hibernian Academy
Barbara Jennings is talking to MICK O’DEA artist and President of RHA (Royal Hibernian Academy) about his new exhibition ‘The Foggy Dew’, commemorating the events of the Easter Rising 1916 featuring a number of large monumental canvases alongside cardboard sculptures Mick O’Dea has decided to embrace the events of that Easter weekend in four monumental canvases sited in the vicinity of central…
Tommy Broughan – General Election 2016 – Independent Candidate
Pat Meehan caught up with TOMMY BROUGHAN, TD, who had just begun his campaign for the upcoming General Election. Broughan will be contesting this election as an Independent, having formerly been a member of the Labour Party. His main objectives would be the creation of a new A&E at Beaumont Hospital, with additional staff, should…
Habitas for Humanities – Presentation of keys to local couple
John Healy talks to ANNA SMITH from Habitat for Humanity Ireland about about the work being carried out by the charity and the presentation of keys to a renovated house to a local couple. Lisa Obrien and partner waited to become a Habitat Homeowner for many years and they have been on the waiting list…
Right 2 Water Campaign – People Before Profit
Noel McGuinness chats with JOHN LYONS from People Before Benefit about the Right2water campaign. The Right2Water campaign has called for a series of nationwide demonstrations to take place on Saturday, 23rd January 2016 – including a major demonstration in Dublin city centre. 2016 is going to be the year of change in Ireland and that change…
Protest against Corrib Gas Project
Mark Finnegan chats with RUARI MCKIERAN a social campaigner about the Corrib gas project. The Corrib gas project cuts to the core of this republic and asks big questions about how the country is run. For more than 10 years now, campaigners have attempted to highlight the project’s many flaws. It had been one of…
Donna Cooney – Green Party- General Election 2016
DONNA COONEY Green Party candidate for Dublin Bay North is chatting to Mark Finnegan about 2016 Election. She was a Dublin City Councillor from Jan.’96 to ’99The Sunday business post called Donna a “hard working councillor”. Donna was a Dublin City Councillor in the 90’s and Chair of the Cultural committee. Over the last twenty…
First Fortnight Mental Health Arts Festival
Noel McGuinness is talking to HEATHER BOURKE a Life Coach, Group Faciliator and Host of Conversation Salons about the First Fortnight Mental Health Arts Festival. This festival is a good way to deal with mental health issues and it tries to create in an artful way a good balanced atmosphere, so that it’s easier for…
Launching of the book Pearse Street 100 – Stephen Moore
Conor Doyle is chatting with author STEPHEN MOORE about his book ‘Pearse Street 100’, which chronicles a century of activity at the station and the stories of the men – and women – who served there down the years. From the 1916 Rising to Ned Broy and Michael Collins, from protecting the institutions of the new…
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