Actor DICK TOBIN chats to Conor Doyle about his part in the new play ‘Port Authority’ by playwright CONOR McPHERSON that is opening at the Viking Theatre in Clontarf. In Port Authority we meet Kevin, Dermot and Joe, three generations of Irishmen. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Dublin, each mans story is a beautifully…
Winner of the Comfort Keepers Carer of the Year
Noel McGuinness interviews EITHNE BYRNE from Coolock, who won the Comfort Keepers Carer of the Year award. She’s explaining the methods they’re using in the Comfort Keepers and talks about the work they do…
LIFT Youth Arts Festival Rocks Ballymun
EMMA CONNORS, the Arts Development Coordinator at Axis, Ballymun talks to Noel McGuinness about the forthcoming 7th LIFT Youth Arts Festival in Ballymun. Thousands of young people take part in projects at Axis each year. Some of these – aged 16 – 17 years – form part of the Festival’s organising committee. They present workshops,…
Rediscover Cycling Centre in Ballymun
Barbara Jennings reports from the Rediscover Cycling Centre in Ballymun, where she talks to Programme Manager PAUL CALLAN. They take bikes from donations and they rebuild them, repairing the bikes with recycled parts. They have been on since 2010 selling the bikes they repair, always with a special touch. They also offer trainings to learn…
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…
Senior Alert Scheme – follow up report
LINDA HAYDEN from the Darndale Belcamp Village Centre follows up with Pat Meehan on the success of the call out for the Senior Alert Scheme and offers contact details for anyone who would like to have the equipment installed in their home. Linda encourages listeners who already have the system installed to check it every week…
“Prism” at the Talbot Gallery
ELAINE GRAINGERS joins Paula Wiseman to discuss the exhibition “Prism” at the Talbot Gallery. The work is by an artist called Aisling Conroy, who has been working on this exhibition for nine months. We hear how it is a work quite strong on colour which also uses Sound Installation. We hear that the works use…
President Higgins Visits St Thomas School, Clonshaugh
Principal BERNIE McCLUSKY and students from St Thomas’s School in Clonshaugh talk to Barbara Jennings about the President’s visit on the 30th anniversary of the school. St Thomas’s is unusual in that it is a targeted educational initiative for Travellers. Young Traveller people are accessing education here as part of the process of increasing equality…
Bohemians Doing Great Charity Work In The Community
Bohemians FC PR manager THOMAS HYNES talks to Noel McGuinness about the club’s charity projects. These include a St Vincent de Paul Christmas appeal, and coaching prisoners in Dublin Prisons…
Irish Institute of Natural Pathic medicine
PAT MEEHAN speaks to MICHAEL & KATE who are suicide prevention councillors from I.I.M.N talking about their holistic recovery programme & they speak about their own experience with mental health…
Cost Of Modular Homes In Ballymun
John talks to NOELEEN REILLY, Sinn Fein Councillor for Ballymun about the cost of the modular homes in Ballymun and the protest by a housing co-op. She talks about the background and situation with the modular homes in Ballymun, the housing co-op’s situation and history with the Dublin City Council, the meetings with the co-op and…
Lakes and Glens exhibition
Barbara Jennings interviews HEIDI NGUYEN French artist residing in Donegal, who will have her exhibition Lakes and Glens shown at Gallery 27 in Dublin. They show her vision of Donegal, which she considers a great place to find inspiration; They are abstract landscapes that show the beauty of the skies, coast and fields from this county…
Nursing in Nigeria Changes Your World View
LAURA DUGGAN worked as a nurse in St Vincent’s Hospital ICU. Here, she tells Noel McGuinness about her voluntary work in Haiti and then Nigeria, where she saw a vast difference between an ultra-modern ICU with TVs at every bed and a Nigerian hospital that had no electricity and she needed a torch to see…
Ayrfield Parish Christmas Mission
Noel McGuinness interviews JOHN FAHY from the Ayrfield Parish about the Christmas Mission…
Malahide Tidy Town
Heidi Bedell speaks to GERRY RAFFERTY from castle lodge in Malahide about how they have been entering the competition for the past twenty years . They also talk about concerts taking place in Malahide castle & how well organised they have gone…
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