GRACE WILENTZ, Near FM’s Intercultural Coordinator talks to Noel McGuinness about the latest series of ‘Culture Shots’. The aim of Culture Shots is to take a panel of eight people: Four Irish and four non-EU immigrants. The eight undertake a seven-week training course in community radio and intercultural media literacy that promotes equality and diversity…
‘Neither Either’ Dance and music show comes to Project Arts Centre
Noel talks to dancer PHILIP CONNAUGHTON of the Liz Roche company about the forthcoming production of Neither Either – a blend of poetry, dance, and music. The show has toured all over Ireland and its arrival in Dublin is much anticipated…
Fingal Women in Business Network showcase
John Healy speaks to EVE BULMAN of the Fingal Women in Business Network. They discuss how the network aims to support small business owners by sharing information within the network on a number of issues that small business owners face, such as learning to properly make tax returns etc. They speak about some case studies…
Cian O’Callaghan Social Democrat launching his campaign for the General Election 2016
Conor Doyle is talking to CIAN O’CALLAGHAN member of the Social Democrats about the upcoming election 2016, for which he is first contesting for. Cian is specialized in the field of healthcare, housing, environment, mental health and criminal justice reform. Today he is talking about possible challenges during the elections like competing against long established…
Above us the waves – Dublin Sub-Aqua Club
JOHN DUNNE of the Viking Sub-Aqua Club chats with Noel McGuinness about some unusual dives. Viking Sub Aqua Club is a Dublin-based scuba diving club. They meet every wednesday night, 9 to 10pm, in the Coolmine Sports & Leisure Centre, Grove Road, Dublin 15. VSAC has been in existence since 1976. Affiliated to the Irish…
The Benefits Of Having An Allotment
CATRIONA REDMOND of the Balbriggan Allotment Association speaks to Noel McGuinness about the benefits of having an allotment. Catriona talks about how having an allotment is great for bringing people together, the uses of an allotment such as growing food, the speakers that they have invited regularly to the Balbriggan allotments to teach members how to…
Joe Duffy’s Children Of The Rising
Conor speaks with JOE DUFFY, RTE broadcaster and author of the book “Children of the Rising”. He talks about the theme of the book, what he discovered when researching the theme, some of the bits and pieces that the children collected before the rising, how the idea of the book started and how his research…
Raidió na Life Celebrates its 20th Birthday
MUIRIS O FIANNACHTA, Station Manager of Raidió na Life talks to Noel McGuinness about the station’s 20th Anniversary celebrations. Broadcasting in Dublin since 1993, Raidió na Life is a community-of-interest radio station set up to provide a community-oriented Irish language radio service to the Irish-speaking community of Dublin and surrounding areas on a non-profit basis…
Marathon swimmer is at it again in Inis Mean
Marathon swimmer FERGAL SOMERVILLE talks to Noel McGuinness about his long distance swims in aid of the RNLI (lifeboats). In the past, FERGAL has swum Dublin Bay, the English Channel, and the Scottish Channel, amongst others. Later in 2014 he plans to swim from the Bailey to Bray. He talks about his preparations, the good work of…
Intercultural Day at Suttonians Club
Niamh Griffin reports from the Sunday’s Intercultural Day at Suttonians Club. ROBERT FORBES, director of Rugby in Suttonians explains the reasons to organize this intercultural day and the richness the club gets from having different cultures together. JACOB is a Polish player of Suttonians team who works to get other polish people and people from other countries…
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…
Culture Night 2013
AMY VAN WYLICH joins Eoin Drinan to speak about the upcoming events as part of Culture night 2013. Amy speaks of how the festival has grown over the previous eight years, with 2013 featuring over 200 different venues. Highlights are RTE Concert Orchestra in Meeting House Square and also the National Photographic archives hosting an…
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…
Barretstown Camp Puts The ‘Fun’ in Fundraiser
Singer DAVID McGUINNESS comes into the studio to chat to Noel McGuinness about the forthcoming Barretstown fundraising gig and to sing a couple of songs. The songs are at 08:14 to 10:58 and 13:35 to 16:51 The Barretstown summer camps are specially designed programmes where children with a serious illness can attend, have some fun…
Problems With New Driving Licence Issue System
PETER NOLAN from IMPACT speaks to Noel McGuinness about failures in the newly introduced driving licence system. Peter outlines the problems that have arisen around delivery times for the new licenses and explains how they have arisen. Peter says the turn around time for receipt of new licences has increased by up to six weeks…
