RYAN CLEARY joins Noel McGuinness to speak about his involvement with the Chernobyl Childrens cause. Ryan shares stories of the work that the cause has carried out in Belarus, including improving sanitation and cleanliness for abandoned children. Ryan tells that they have moved from working with orphanages primarily to creating day care centres and community…
Culture night 2013
RAY YATES, City Arts officer in Temple Bar, joins Noel McGuinness to discuss the upcoming plans for Culture Night 2013, whilst at an event celebrating the work of Seamus Heaney. Ray speaks of there being over 600 events throughout the country and more than 200 in Dublin. He tells that many places not usually open…
Coolock & Artane Credit Union donating defibrillators and Scholarship Scheme
NOEL MCGUINNESS interviews ADRIANNE O’SHEA from Coolock & Artane Credit Union, who explains their recent initiative to donate defibrillator machines to local schools and community buildings as well as the already existing Scholarship Scheme…
Volunteer Ireland
BARBARA JENNINGS speaks with JOHN, KERRY, ROBBIE, GILLIAN, NIALL, & STEPHEN from Volunteer Ireland in Northside Shopping Centre, where they are having an open day & are looking for people to become volunteers…
BIT’s Springboard Initiative Helps Unemployed to Re-Skill
Ronnie O’Brien talks to DR. MARY MEANEY, President of the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown. BIT has 350 free places to offer to people who are currently unemployed, enabling them to up-skill or re-skill…
New Culture Shots Course Opens With Internship Advice
NOEL MC GUINNESS has Near Intercultural Coordinator of of NEAR Media coop GRACE WILLENTZ. Grace is talking about ‘Culture Shots’ a new training course. This new course is focusing on getting people used to the process of producing their own programmes for radio. The training plans tend to go astray a little as the groups…
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…
Do You Know Who’s Dead?
Noel speaks to PADDY DUFFY, author of the book “Do You Know Who’s Dead?” He talks about the documentary series he’s doing about Barack Obama, the motorway culture in Ireland nowadays, the details of the book’s release, the Irish topics that he brings up in the book and the Irish interest in characters over the…
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…
Pyrite Crisis
PAT MEEHAN talks to PETER LEWIS, of Pyrite Action Group, on updates on the efforts to find a resolution to the pyrite crisis in North and West Dublin as well as East Meath, North Kildare and Offaly…
Rock n Roll Is Back In Dublin Town
It’s back! But this time with an even bigger bang! And a new name! Formerly known as the Rock-N-Roll Conference, held in Dublin last year, the whole shebang will be working under a new name, The Dublin Rock-N- Roll Festival! KEIRAN BLACK chats here with Conor Daly about all the events planned for this festival…
Dublin’s First Festival of History: Presenting the Past, Looking to the Future
BRENDAN TEELING, Deputy City Librarian of Dublin City Libraries, joins Pat Meehan to discuss the upcoming Dublin Festival of History. Brendan says 70,000 history books were borrowed from Dublin libraries in the previous year. This number suggested that there is a huge amount of interest in our nation’s past and that a history festival, tied…
Hidden Hearing treating Tinnutus
John speaks to BARRY DOUGLAS from Hidden Hearing and GERRY COOLEY from the Near FM Business Partnership Initiative. They both talk about the reaction to the initiative, the importance of hearing checkups, the grants and benefits that may be available for people needing hearing aids, the possible variations and causes of tinnitus and how Hidden…
Amnesty International campaign on Mental Health
Noel interviews ROBERT MCCAFFERTY from Suaimhneas and Psychotherapist CAROLINE McGUIGAN about the Amnesty International campaign on Mental Health As A Human Rights Issue…
Winter Coats For The Homeless Campaign
SARAH KATE CONWAY and ROSIE OSBOURNE join John Healy in studio to discuss Sarah’s “Winter Coats For The Homeless” initiative. Sarah tells John where the idea came from and how it developed into a campaign. Rosie talks about the Peter McVerry Trust’s involvement with the campaign and some of the ways in which people can…
