Musician and Voice Squad member, PHIL CALLERY joins Noel McGuinness in studio. Phil talks about his love for music, his dislike of where music production has evolved to over the years, how he started with the Voice Squad, how he believes that Ireland is keeping its song writing traditions intact and his old slot in…
EPIC Work With Children In Care
JENNIFER GARGAN of EPIC (Empowering People In Care) talks to John Healy about the work being done by EPIC in north Dublin. EPIC is an independent association that works throughout the Republic of Ireland, with and for children and young people who are currently living in care or who have had an experience of living…
Coolock’s 23 Female Graduates Are Entrepreneurs of the Future
John Healy reads a letter of appreciation and congratulates the 23 female entrepreneurs who recently graduated from the Coolock Development Council’s training course. In previous months Fiona Nolan has been updating listeners on the progress of the group and John takes the time to let listeners know the outcome of the course and acknowledge the…
Anime Comes to Dublin City
American cartoonist, actor, and director CHUCK HUBER is in Dublin for the Anime Society’s Croke Park event. For those who don’t know, anime is the generic name given to those Japanese cartoons, comics and cartoon films that feature big-eyed heroes and heroines and bug-eyed monsters and freaks. The ‘Manga’ comics also feature in a big…
The work of Dublin Simon Community in 2012
AOIFE MULHALL of the Dublin Simon Community joins Ronnie O’Brien to discuss the work of the group. Aoife tells of the hardships of running a charity in the recession and shares details of the services which they provide including their nightly soup run around Dublin City. They talk of how the most recent figure suggested…
Digital TV Switchover
MICHAEL QUILLIGAN talks to Pat Meehan about the TV switch-over. The switch is being made from analogue to digital TV. Michael is helping older people especially with the digital switch-over and is asking others in the various communities to help individuals and groups to get involved with helping with the switch-over. They discuss the cost of…
Belmayne Residents Association
Mark Finnegan speaks to MICHELLE MC GOLDRICK from the Belmayne residents association. MICHELLE talks about an Easter event which will take place & will include music, face painting & of course an Easter egg hunt & lots more. They talk about Belmayne & how there really is no community facilities to hold events. As an…
Fossetts Circus At 125 years Of Age
CHARLES O’BRIEN of Fossetts Circus speaks to Ger Leddin on the occasion of their 125th year in existence. Charles talks about the history of Fossetts Circus with the oldest official documentation of it reaching back to 1888, the new audience members attending the circus from outside of Ireland, the generations of families passing on memories…
Teaching Budding Chefs At Howth Castle Cookery School
ELEANOR MARTIN of Howth Castle Cookery School speaks to Sabrina Ryan about the series of classes that they present. One of the courses focuses on fish. This means looking at ways to source good fish as well as cooking it. Another course looks specifically at creating baby food.There is also a sushi and sashimi course. Eleanor…
World Ghost Convention
Pat speaks to CATHERINE MCCOURTNEY about the World Ghost Convention in Cork. She talks about the details of the convention, the guest speakers who will be speaking during the convention, her involvement in the convention, her beliefs on the speaker’s abilities and how everyone can have their own perspective on spirits or ghosts. She also…
Simon Kelly and Molly O’Leary from Scene Not Herd
Noel Interviews SIMON KELLY and MOLLY O’LEARY, who explain their experience at Scene Not Herd…
Barbara Jennings talking about Heritage sites in Dublin
John Healy speaks to BARBARA JENNINGS about heritage sites in Dublin that are worth a visit, these include Aidan’s church, St Mary’s Abbey,Rathfarnham Castle, Royal Hospital & many more…
Interview With Musician Paul Byrne
Northside Today’s Johnny Holmes speaks to musician PAUL BYRNE about his music from 1982 to present day. Paul talks about what inspired him to first be a musician, his early days playing in different groups, his influences as a musician, who are his favorite drummers both past and present, when it first started writing songs…
The Importance of Press Freedom – Johnathan Rugman
JOHNATHAN RUGMAN of Channel 4 News joins Eoin Drinan on the eve of World Press Freedom Day. Johnathan speaks about his work in Turkey, getting locked up in Venezuela, and being accused of spying. He says the concept of press freedom differs a lot from region to region…
Learning about the NEARFM series “Travellers Stories North Dublin through the eyes of the Travelling Community”
PAUL LOUGHRAN of NEARfm joins Paula Wiseman to discuss the upcoming Series which will broadcast on the station called ” Travellers Stories: North Dublin through the eyes of the Travelling community”. Paul tells the background to the series, how it came about and how training the poeple involved in the series was a large part…
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