Barbara Jennings speaks to ARTHUR DUFF about the Malt House on the North Circular Road. They discuss how they opened a design hub for young designers and other designers that frequent the hub. For instance, Jennifer Flattery,Karl Sweeney, Locker 13 and Catherine Payne who all work out of the building. They speak about their Waste…
Grace Wilentz: Memories of 9/11
In the 10th anniversary of the attacks of 9/11 in New York, Noel talks to GRACE WILENTZ, who lived through that tragedy first hand…
Cadbury Job Losses In Coolock
John Healy speaks to DARYL BARREN who is local Fianna Fail rep for Beaumont /Donaghmeade area.He speaks about the job losses in Cadburys & the affect it will have on the community as most of the workers are from the Coolock area…
Fingal Film Fest 2015 Offers A New Award
Director of Fingal Film Festival 2015 DAVE BYRNE talks to John Healy about this year’s offerings. Fingal Film Festival has been committed to supporting the next generation of film makers since 2012, when it introduced the Best Student Award as a new award to join its previous seven awards. The Best Irish Language Film award…
Closure of Register Office in Northside Civic Centre in Coolock
JOHN HEALY speaks to LARRY O’ TOOLE about the Register Office closing down in the Northside Civic Centre here in Coolock…
Tradfest 2013 preview
PAUL LOUGHRAN speaks to Noel McGuinness about the upcoming broadcast live from Tradfest 2013. We hear how it will be broadcast across a number of Community stations in the Dublin region. We hear some of the planned performers on the day and what will be heard on the day…
I Only Miss You When You’re Gone: Photography At Axis, Ballymun
Photographer AIDAN KELLY joins Noel McGuinness to discuss the exhibition “I Only Miss You When You’re Gone” at the Axis Centre in Ballymun. Aidan says himself and Mark O’Brien collaborated on the project. It began with a discussion of why they took photographs and evolved into a debate about what Ballymun would be like if…
Using Real Time Data Technology To Aid Crisis Mapping
Crisis Mapper PATRICK MEIER speaks to Eoin Drinan about his website, irevolutions.org. Patrick talks about the evolution of the idea over the previous five years, some of the challenges of crisis mapping including its changes, the positive implications of bridging the time gap using a digital map instead of a physical map and how this feeds into the response…
Defend Our Homes League
PAT GUERIN talks to JOAN COLLINS TD (United Left) about the launch of the Defend Our Homes League…
Spirit of Folk festival 2012
Barbara speaks to NATASHA DUFFY from the Spirit of Folk festival 2012 in Navan, who talks us through the event, it’s purpose and what it entails. It is a festival with a difference as it is a family friendly festival with a number of family activities. They speak of the acts, the food vendors and…
MIC project closing date for applications
Mark Finnegan talks to MARK FLYNN pf MIC. MIC offers ‘portfolio courses to people who have dropped out of formal education. Entrants achieve a Fetac level 5 in anything from Sound Engineering or film-making to web and graphic design. Modules are also being offered now in c ommunications technology. The courses include modules on teamwork…
Mo Kelly Exhibition at Ice Bar – 2012
AOIFA NIC CANNA has been a leading force in the Irish dance music scene since its initial emergence in the early 1990s and she continues to open up new paths for the scene with a range of club nights and DJ projects. Here, in a recording from 2012, Aoifa talks to DJ/artist MO KELLY. Mo…
Vanessa Carey, Dublin City Council from the Belmayne Allotments
Amanda Ni Ghabhann interviews VANESSA CAREY, from Dublin City Council on the official opening of the Belmayne Allotments. After talking to the residents they found there was a need for people to have space to have a garden, somewhere they could go to grow. It took 18 months to get the project running…
Irish Cartoonist, Tom Mathews
Barbara talks to the Irish cartoonist, TOM MATHEWS about how he got into cartooning. Tom talks about some of the early cartoons, which he did while still in school. They speak of the work available to him in the current climate of 2012. He tells how he sometimes gets private commissions but also the downsides of…
Bordeaux Conference: Irish Claremorris Community Radio
Noel McGuinness interviews AIDAN LONG from the Irish community radio station, Claremorris Community Radio about the origin of radio and the chance of discovering the challenges of other rural radio stations all over Europe…