Festival of Curiosity 2013 Summary

Festival Of Curiosity organizer, VINCENT MCCARTHY talks to Eoin Drinan to review the events from this year’s festival. Vincent talks about the success of previous festivals, their focus on the science and culture aspects of the festival, the highlights of the festival including a carnival in Smock Alley Theatre and a Lego exhibition in Temple…

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Dublin City Council Chooses Sites for First Modular Homes

Mark speaks to Cllr CHRISTY BURKE (Independent) about the Dublin City Council choosing sites for their first modular homes. He talks about the process involved in how and why the sites were chosen for the houses, his response to people’s reactions of the homes being chosen in areas such as Ballymun and Ballyfermot, how homelessness…

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Fighting for Marriage Equality for LGBT Community

RONNIE O’BRIEN interviews MONINNE GRIFFITH about the Marriage Equality organisation. Marriage Equality is a not for profit, single issue, national grassroots advocacy organisation whose goal is to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Ireland through the extension of civil marriage rights to same-sex couples. Marriage Equality’s vision is of an…

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Action Ireland Trust recent project in Lesotho

Noel McGuinness interviews FRAN WHELAN from Action Ireland Trust and and ASHLING MOORE and OWEN HOLTON students from Portmarnock school, who are part of the group of volunteers and recently came back from taking part in a project in Lesotho. After a five year program in South Africa they began this project in Lesotho, looking for experience exchange…

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Irish/Polish Film Festival 2011

Noel interviews ANNA POSPIESZYNSKA, who explains how they decided to create the Irish/ Polish Film Festival in Filmbase, Curved Street, as a pilot inside the bigger Play Poland festival happening in different cities around UK, with the main goal of promoting independent films and filmmakers…

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River Liffey visual art piece

Eoin Drinan speaks to FERGAL MCCARTHY  (Visual Artist) and discusses his work in trying to create art that highlights and incorporates the River Liffey in Dublin. They discuss Fergal’s idea of creating a park along a single lane of the traffic along the central length of the River Liffey and compare it to the High…

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Post Office Posts Third Electoral Candidate

A third post office candidate is to put himself forward for the upcoming general election. Blanchardstown postmaster GEOFF BOYLE launched his campaign on Tuesday at the Blanchardstown Town Centre. Here he chats to Noel McGuinness. Mr Boyle, who has worked as postmaster in Blanchardstown village for 12 years, is seeking election on the platform of…

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Howth, Baldoyle and Sutton 1916 Commemorative Committee

Pat speaks to PHILIP O’CONNOR, local historian from the Howth, Baldoyle and Sutton 1916 Commemorative Committee. He talks about the origins of the committee, the events that they are putting together, some of the historic events that took place in Howth, Baldoyle and Sutton during the 1916 rising, the type of historic figures who were around…

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Good news from Middle East

Baldoyle student SCOTT LEESON doing work experience at nearFM was tasked with finding some good news from the Middle East. He obliged with pieces about a Bridal Fashion designer going to international competition in Dubai, and a circus school in Palestine. And there’s more for good news junkies!…

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Totally Terrific Tomato festival in Swords, Dublin

MICHAEL CONNOLLY of Rolestown Garden Centre speaks to Noel McGuinness in the run up to their Totally Terrific Tomato Festival 2013. On the day there will be a petting farm for children, a farmers’ market and many more elements for a fun family day. At the event this year they will have a tasting of…

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Homeopathy In The Garden

MARTIN BYRNE tells Noel McGuinness that Homeopathy seems to get results in eradicating pests and diseases in the garden. Homeopathy works by adding tiny amounts of plant extracts into a solution to the body, (or plant in this case) to help eliminate problems that chemicals are generally used for. For example Calendula is used for…

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