Barretstown Camp Puts The ‘Fun’ in Fundraiser

Singer DAVID McGUINNESS comes into the studio to chat to Noel McGuinness about the forthcoming Barretstown fundraising gig and to sing a couple of songs. The songs are at 08:14 to 10:58 and 13:35 to 16:51 The Barretstown summer camps are specially designed programmes where children with a serious illness can attend, have some fun…

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Donnycarney Tradfest

Live broadcast from Donnycarney Tradfest. Music from OUR LADY OF CONSOLATION CHOIR followed by a talk on Donnycarney’s colourful history from Dr RUTH McMANIS. MUSIC FROM 00.08.00 TO 06.45.00…

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Young Scientist Speaking at Day Of The Girl Event

Fiona Murdoch from the Irish Girl Guides spoke to EMER HICKEY, Young Scientist Winner & Irish Girl Guides Member at the International Day of the Girl Event that took place on the 11th October 2015 in the Irish Film Institute, Dublin. She talks about the film “Girl Rising” which she saw as an eye opener…

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A World of Adventure and Fun in Your Local Library

John Healy chats with MAGS CURLEY, senior librarian at Coolock Library. Although Mags came in to talk primarily about a forthcoming photography event, it seems there’s a whole lot more going on. The photography exhibition features photos of Dublin from Pheonix Park to Malahide Castle and all points in between, from the Poolbeg chimneys to…

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Intercultural Media Project

PAT GUERIN talks to GRACE WILENTZ, Intercultural Dialogue through Community Media Coordinator at Near Media Co-op, on updates of the Intercultural Media project she is working on. In this segment, GRACE tells PAT how participants to the project are planning what they would be talking about within their programme and what feedback she is getting from…

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Community Garden Bunratty Drive

Sabrina Ryan interviews LINDA DEVLIN from Doras Bui about the Community Garden they have in Bunratty Drive. She explains the great effect this work has in the different people that participate in this project. She encourages everyone to take part, even if they don’t have any horticultural knowledge in the beginning, as the gardener will…

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Social Justice Ireland critique Budget 2013

MICHELLE MURPHY of Social Justice Ireland joins Ronnie O’Brien to discuss the government budget 2013. They discuss the difference felt by low earners brought about by changes to PRSI compared to high earners. They talk of “Unearned” income now being taxed by PRSI such as from House Rental. We hear of certain benefits being introduced…

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Campaign from the Bike Theft Working Group

Noel speaks to Councillor CIARÁN CUFFE from the Green Party about cycling in Dublin and the campaign from the Bike Theft Working Group. He talks about the focus of the campaign to encourage bike safety, the increase of bike crime, what’s needed to prevent your bike from being stolen, where stolen bikes may end up, tips…

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The Long Walk Home 2013 – Grand canal challenge

JOANNE LINDSAY MARTIN of the Peter McVerry Trust joins Noel McGuinness to discuss “The Long Walk Home” – a charity walk from Shannon harbour to Dublin along the Grand Canal, covering roughly 20kilometres a day. Joanne shares some stories and details from the previous years walk from Shannon to Dublin. She shares specific details of…

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Dublin Flamenco Festival

Noel speaks to NATHALIE MOYANO GONZÁLEZ, Director of the Dublin Flamenco Festival. She talks about some of the dancers coming to the festival that helped develop Flamenco dancing, the various events for everyone in the family, the roots of Flamenco dancing in Spain and the different rhythms and emotions that come into Flamenco dancing. She…

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Liberties Festival 2013

MICHAEL CONLAN, an organizer of the Liberties Festival joins Noel McGuinness to talk about the upcoming Liberties festival and what it entails for the year 2013. Michael talks about some of the events in the festival such as a concert at St. Patrick’s festival, the purpose of the festival for the people in the Liberties area of Dublin, the…

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Introducing Red Room

The lead singer of Red Room, ANTHONY BOOLS chats with Noel McGuinness and we get to hear a couple of tracks from the North Dublin band’s new album. Song one: 00:11:50 – 03:33:50 Song two: 15:25:00 – 18:35:00…

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Hip Hop mentoring scheme at Axis, Ballymun

Noel McGuinness speaks to LETHAL DIALECT (Paulie Allright) about the rap scene in Ireland at the time. They begin by talking about the state of the Irish scene in 2013 and then speak a little about Lethal Dialects work and background. They move on to speaking about the Hip Hop mentoring scheme and teaching people…

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