Sewage Plant

JOHN HEALY speaks to LORCAN O’ TOOLE about Fingal County Council proposing to erect a huge sewage plant in the Rush/ Lusk area of North County Dublin. Residents are not happy about this, listen in to hear more…

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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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Andrew Carson launches his new installation “Pathfinder”

Pat Meehan chats with ANDREW CARSON about his new exhibition Pathfinder in Talbot Gallery. Pathfinder is an installation of new work by Andrew Carson following on from his research into the use and effects of modern means of communication; Andrew’s work is an exploration of social structures, systems, possibility, and probability…

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Near Media Co-Op Newsletter Round Up Summer 2013

Noel McGuinness speaks to DAVE O’CONNOR, secretary of the Near Media Co-op about the various activities being undertook within the co-op. Dave talks about the co-op’s successful AGM and its positive reflection on Near FM, the Near FM podcast site and Near Choice project, the latest news with Near Drama, the progress made by Near…

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Housing Emergency and Rights Conference

Flavia interviews several people from the Housing Emergency and Rights Conference that took place on Saturday 3rd October. She firstly chats with JOHN BISSETT from Housing Action. He talks about the reasons for the conference to be called, the problems with housing from all over the country and how the conference was a working progress…

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Cost Of Modular Homes In Ballymun

John talks to NOELEEN REILLY, Sinn Fein Councillor for Ballymun about the cost of the modular homes in Ballymun and the protest by a housing co-op. She talks about the background and situation with the modular homes in Ballymun, the housing co-op’s situation and history with the Dublin City Council, the meetings with the co-op and…

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Dublin Festival of History 2013

Tara Doyle, organiser of the Dublin Festival of History, joins Eoin Drinan to discuss this year’s programme of events. Tara says the idea is to create spaces for people to attend workshops with authors and historians and talk around historical topics. Tara says there has been a lot of interest from people travelling to Ireland…

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Aramu Muru exhibition at the Graphic Studio Gallery

Barbara interviews swedish graphic artist LARS WIKSTROM about his latest exhibition at the Graphic Studio Gallery, called “Aramu Muru”. They are 18 woodcuts inspired by Aramu Muru in Haya Marca, near Lake Titicaca in Peru; it reflects the Inca culture and the spiritual world attached to it…

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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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Arson incident at Stardust Memorial park

Pat Meehan joins local councillor LARRY O’TOOLE who speaks of outrage at an Arson attack at the Coolock memorial space for the Stardust Tragedy which took place in the local area in 1981. They discuss other anti-social behaviour in the park surrounding the memorial and go on to discuss possible ways to dissuade this behaviour…

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See Strasbourg and Enjoy Life

Strasbourg is the capital and largest city of the Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine (ACAL) region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace were historically predominantly Alemannic-speaking with various dialects, hence the…

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Education fair

RONNIE O’ BRIEN speaks with CLIONA NI`LUAGHNDA, who is Education Programme manager with Ballymun /Whitehall Partnership. They talk about an education fair which is taking place on the 8/9/2011 in the Civic Centre in Ballymun. They talk about courses that are on offer, including ‘improving your spelling’ to ‘furniture restoration’ & lots more…

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Behind the Horse Shoe Bar

Barbara Jennings speaks to SEAN BOYD, who is the  author of a book called ‘Behind The Horse Shoe Bar’. The Bar was in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin. He was a worker in the Shelbourne Hotel, and he speaks of the variety of people he met throughout the years & some interesting stories he heard…

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