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…
Mammas in their Pyjamas
Pat Meehan interviews MIRIAM O’NEILL from AA Ireland about a funny situation coming up quite often, and they’ve called it “Mammas in their Pyjamas”. They’ve had to rescue some mortified mums in pyjamas in the school run, as well as some other funny rescues, as Batman or a clown…
Baldoyle Racecourse Community Garden
Baldoyle Racecourse Community Garden organizer JENNIFER NOTHER joins Yvette Reid to talk about how the community garden was put together. Jennifer talks of the committee that guided the project, how the garden operates, how the community organize to meet at particular times of the month to carry out specific tasks such as cutting grass, her hopes of the garden growing in the…
St Vincent de Paul Shops at Christmas
Vincent’s shops are a very important aspect of the service SVP provides. Not only do they provide people with new and lightly worn items at affordable prices, they also provide an income source for the Society, which is recycled directly back into the community. The shops are managed by a small number of professionals; assisted…
Clontarf Area Tourism
John speaks to DENNIS MCINTYRE from the Clontarf Area Tourism Patrol and the Bram Stoker Museum. He talks about his background and interest with Clontarf, how he feels the area is underrated as a tourism area in Dublin, the ambition to set up a year round tourism centre in Clontarf, his disappointment on the little…
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…
Cuts to the Kilbarrack Coast Community Programme (KCCP)
Addiction councillor DECLAN BYRNE from the Kilbarrack Coast Community Programme (KCCP) comes to studio to talk to Pat Meehan about the community employment cuts to the programme. Declan gives a short history of the project, explaining how the project rose out of the heroine epidemic in the 1980’s. Local people joined forces with the Health Board…
Irish/Polish Film Festival 2011
Noel interviews ANNA POSPIESZYNSKA, who explains how they decided to create the Irish/ Polish Film Festival in Filmbase, Curved Street, as a pilot inside the bigger Play Poland festival happening in different cities around UK, with the main goal of promoting independent films and filmmakers…
Phizz Fest 2011
Noel interviews TINA ROBINSON, Programme manager of the Phizz Fest and also to STUART BOBBETT on the second year of this festival, which is taking place in Phibsborough, with even more events than in the first edition…
Community Workers Cooperative and Climate Justice
ANN IRWIN from the Community Workers Cooperative (established in 1981) talks about climate Justice Report and disadvantaged communities. The cooperative is a national organisation. The organisation has recently lost its funding for staff. It is now operated purely on a voluntary basis. Climate issues are issues for community work, says Ann. This is because those…
Christmas events at Glasnevin Museum
Noel McGuinness interviews SHANE MAC TOMAS from Glasnevin Museum about the events they have organized for Christmas…
Donal Daly of the Environmental Protection Agency
DONAL DALY of the EPA chats with John Healy about the exhibition, ‘Watertight: The Future of Irish Water’ which is taking place in The Science Gallery in Dublin. Donal outlines what the EPA do and what the purpose of the event is. He then goes on to talk about the panel involved and about also how…
Cyprus Introduces Ireland to its EU Presidency
The Presidency of the Council of the European Union is responsible for the functioning of the Council of the European Union, the upper house of the EU legislature. It rotates among the member states of the EU every six months. The presidency is not an individual, but rather the position is held by a national…
Moore Street Bond Scheme
Noel speaks to FRANK ALLEN about the Moore Street Bond Scheme that were selling bonds to support the preservation of Moore Street, Dublin 1. He talks about the background and reasons for the bond scheme, the historical significance of Moore Street, the response to the bond scheme from all over the world, the costs to restore…
Accessing the success of “The Gathering”
FIONAN NESTOR, engagement manager with “The Gathering” joins John Healy to discuss how the gathering has been going over the course of the year. The Gathering has helped tourism number increase by a massive seven percent in the first eight months of the year. They discuss who organises the individual events and Fionan tells John that it…