Noel McGuinness interviews THERESA CARTER about the People’s Charter on Renewable Energy. She’s criticizing the policies the government set regarding renewable energies…
Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan, Historian Talking about St Patrick returns To Lead The Skerries Parade
Noel Mc Guinness speaks to Historian HUGH FITZGERALD about St Patrick returns by row boat to lead the Skerries St Patrick’s day parade. He talks about St Patrick’s footprint & the story behind it…
Fergus Carroll talking sport
Noel Mc Guinness talks to FERGUS CARROLL about what’s being happening in the sports world. FERGUS reviews the weekend games which include the rugby’s six nations, the hurling match from Croke park between Dublin & Galway, the latest news from the horse raising from leopardstown, & lots more…
Irish Girl Guides Talk About Climate Change
Fiona Murdoch, Communications Officer for Irish Girl Guides talks to KATE MULCAHY, AINE CAFFREY and LOUISE O’REILLY about climate change. They talk about why it’s important to fight against climate change, their suggestions to the Environment Minister, why it’s important to carry on the message about the climate change issues and their hopes for an…
National Soup Week 2013
Eoin Drynan speaks to GARETH CROWE from Gorta Ireland about the upcoming Soup Week in March 2013. They discuss the purpose of the campaign and mention how 5c for each cup of soup you drink at home (bought from Erin soup) goes towards the campaign. Every organisation (restaurants, canteens etc) involved will donate 1euro for…
Erase Racism Photography exhibition
LUKE BOKHA of the Anti Racism Network of Ireland speaks to Eoin Drinan about the Erase Racism exhibition, launched on the 19th March 2013. Luke explains what the purpose of the exhibition is, as part of the European week against racism. They speak about 21st of March being a day set a side by the…
Dublin Harvest Festival at Wolfe Tone Square 2012
Eoin Drinan speaks to MARION KELLY [slight crackle on the phone] from the Harvest festival who explains what will be happening at the festival in Wolfe Tone Square. She speaks about the community growers sharing their skills as well as Dublin Council sharing views on how to conserve water and how to be more “green”…
Dublin Chinese New Year festival 2013
AMY YIN ZANG speaks to Yvette Reid about the plans for the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival in 2013. They also discuss the Dublin Chinese Film Festival 2013 and the films that will be shown as part of this festival. They discuss the meaning of the “Year of the Snake” which is the Chinese year…
Winner of the young Scientist Award 2014
Noel McGuinness interviews PAUL CLARKE, student of St. Paul’s College and winner of the Young Scientist Award. He talks of his way to his success and how he come to do what he is doing now. He’ll be going to Silicon Valley as part of the prize to discover the work they do there…
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…
Robbery at Sphere 17 Youth Facility
John Healy speaks to BRIAN KENEALLY about the work that local youth centre Sphere 17 do in the community and how budget cuts have affected the organisation. They also speak about a recent incident where someone broke into their premises and stole IT equipment and money, as well as causing extensive damage to their facilities…
Food Glorious Food, a “Waste food initiative”
Iseult Ward from “Food Glorious Food”, an initiative set up to bridge the gap between food waste and poverty, speaks to Yvette Reid. Iseult explains the goals of the initiative and how they hope to implement it by collecting leftover foods from restaurants, farmers markets and butchers and arranging to distribute them to those in…
Teachers’ Experience of the PAX Good Behavior Game
Noel speaks with BREDA TOMKINS, a teacher from St. Joseph’s National School, Bonnybrook & CLAIR MCNICHOLAS, a teacher from Scoil Ide, Kilmore West about their experiences of the PAX Good Behavior Game in the classroom. They talk about their backgrounds in teaching, their first impressions of the game, their training on the programme, the details…
68th Annual Skerries Motorbike Race 2013
SUSAN PLUNKETT, ANDY FARRELL AND MARK MAGUIRE speaks to Pat Meehan about the Skerries races. They talks about the history of the race, how some of them got involved with bike racing, how people fundraise the hobby, the details of the races, the efforts made to increase safety for the races. They also talk about the…
Entering the Wet World of the Rock Pools
LORRAINE BULL, Development Officer with the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT), talks to Mark Finnegan about the Irish Wildlife Trust and in particular about the rock-pooling event for families on Saturday 5th September. Rock pools (or tide pools) are a home for hardy organisms such as sea stars, mussels and clams. They must be able to…