BRENDAN PRICE from the Irish Seal Sanctuary talks to Noel McGuinness about the organisation’s work. The Irish Seal Sanctuary is a professionally run Wildlife Hospital, Rescue and Rehabilitation Facility. It is a registered charity and to date has received no State or Government grant or funding. It is sustained entirely by voluntary effort and financed…
Dublin Seven
Pat speaks with FRANKIE GAFFNEY, author of “Dublin Seven” He talks about the theme of the book, the process of publishing the book, the plot of the book, the possibilities of a sequel and what brought him to start writing. He also talks about his upbringing and the difficulty of authors getting their first works…
Occupy Dame Street
PAT GUERIN talks to PAUL MURPHY MEP (Socialist Party) on the grassroots protest movement Occupy Dame Street taking place in Dublin. PAUL MURPHY MEP explains what this movement is, what it is hoping to achieve and talks about what its next steps might be…
School of Cosmic Physics at Dunsink Observatory
SENIOR PROFESSOR LUKE DRURY, HEAD OF ASTROPHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY SECTION, talks to Mark Finnegan about National Science Week and the international significance of Dunsink in terms of research into outer space. It is rocket science! The Irish Astronomy Trail, taking in Cork, Galway and Newgrange is also discussed. Over 4,000 people a year visit Dunsink…
Dublin Book Festival 2013: Celebrating Ireland’s Future Writers
JULIANNE MOONEY, Programme Director of this year’s Dublin Book Festival joins Eoin Drinan to share details of some of the events taking place. Julianne says the Festival launch will take place on Thursday evening with RTE’s Arena radio show broadcasting live from the event. On the Friday there will be readings from some of Ireland’s…
Finding Thomas Kent
Conor speaks to SEAN SHERWIN who was a huge influence around the Thomas Kent funeral. He talks about how Kent was the one of the very few people executed outside of Dublin from the 1916 rising, his involvement in the rising with his brothers, how he was captured after the rising, how his mother kept…
Bram Stoker historical walk and museum
Local historian DENIS MCINTYRE joins Pat Meehan in the Near FM studios to discuss the upcoming Bram Stoker historical walk, St Stephens Day 2012. The walk concludes in the Bram Stoker museum in Clontarf where there will be a discussion on the book of Dracula focusing on the links between the story and the area of Clontarf. They…
Darndale Belcamp Park Renewal Project
John Healy interviews MADELEINE EBBS from Dublin City Council and social activist LANCE SPRATT, and some students from Darndale National School accompanied by Gerry Cooley to talk about the claim to repair the playground and the football pitch. The football teams can’t use the pitches because the quad bikes destroyed them and the playground was too…
Crisis in Iraq
JIM ROCHE of the Irish Anti-War Movement talks to Pat Meehan about the growing threat of war in the Middle East and the part that The US an UK governments are playing in arming the potential antagonists using ISIS as a catalyst. Oil is a major motivator in this political manouevering says JIM. And the…
Experience in the Ayrfield Parish Christmas Mission
Noel Mc Guinness interviews JOHN PRIDMORE, who talks about his checkered past as a London gangster and about how he uses his life experience to work with the Ayrfield Parish Christmas Mission…
Ireland Canada Cricket Match
FERGUS CARROLL is live from Castle Avenue to broadcast the cricket match between Ireland and Canada…
Worl Tour: Bike and belongings stolen
Noel interviews ROHAN FELMINGHAM who’s traveled all over the world with his bike, and when he settled in Dublin for some months he had his bike and all his belongings stolen, and NOEL FAY, Dublin biker who offered his support to Rohan. This didn’t stop him and after some months building his own bike he will…
Cafe O Play celebrates first anniversary
MICHELLE BARRY CASHMAN and HANNAH LOPEZ, the operators of Cafe O Play at Clonliffe & Croke Park Community Centre explain how this new concept in play groups operates. They provide a cafe service for parents, and full playgroup facilities for children. This means parents and children can socialise at the same time. There are some very…
What Is Involved In Economics?
TONY WEEKES is an Economics lecturer who is involved in the Maynooth University Communiversity Project. He talks to Northside Today’s Noel McGuinness about the purpose of ‘the economy’ and discusses what is wrong with the present economic system. Tony talks about the reaction and participation of the Communiversity project in the past 4 years, what type of…
To Children With Love’s Challenger Programme Of Education
Noel speaks to DEBBIE DEEGAN from To Children With Love about the Challenger Programme of Education for children from disadvantaged areas. She talks about the background of To Children With Love in Russia, the idea behind the programme, what they have learned about the disadvantaged areas around Dublin, the keys to giving children their own…
