DEREK EVANS, the PRO of Howth Sea Angling Club talks to Noel McGuinness about the sea and adventures in fishing with Howth SAC. Howth Sea Angling Club was formed in 1970 and since then, it has developed into one of the foremost Angling Clubs in Ireland. The Club has it’s own boats and clubhouse and…
St. Michael’s House on budget cuts to disability services
John Healy speaks to NOEL DILLON of St Michael’s House about what they provide in terms of services around Dublin and Meath including their work supported employment services and training centres. They discuss possible problems created by further impending budget cuts. They move on to talk about what parents can do to support the service…
An Overview Of The Irish Coastline
MICHAEL WALSH is the Regional Coordinator for North Dublin for Coastwatch Ireland. He tells Pat Meehan that Coastwatch aims for informed public participation in environmental protection and management, especially in the coastal zone. He says that the Coastwatch annual survey is now used in 23 European countries. The survey is designed to give an overview…
Howth Coast Guard report
PAUL COOPER, Deputy Officer with the Howth Coast Guard, warns against people lighting Chinese lanterns, as they are being mistaken for distress flares. Paul asks members of the public to call the Coast Guard if they are about to light Chinese lanterns. Presenter Pat Meehan also asks Paul about the Coast Guard units in Ireland. Paul…
Local Hardware Shops Boom Even In The Bust
Local Hardware entrepreneur JOHNNY McLOUGHLIN talks to Noel McGuinness about the hardware business he opened despite the ongoing recession. After a year in business, Johnny says that he is surprised at how well things have been working out. Because people are short of cash, he says, I’m guessing that they’re doing home repairs themselves to…
The North County Leader Free Local Newspaper
Noel Mc Guinnes speaks to PATRICK FINNEGAN about this weeks stories from the north county leader free local newspaper. This week they talk about men’s shed’s in Portmarnock, also about a singer/songwriter Roisin Malone from Skerries who went out to America on a J1 & has made herself quite famous with her single “Dont Stop”…
Anti-Austerity Alliance petition against water charges
MICHAEL O’BRIEN and PRIONSIAS O’CONARAIN talk to Mark Finnegan about the on-going campaign against payment of water charges in Ireland…
Lions Club Christmas Food Drive 2013
JOE SMITH of the Lions Club joins Noel McGuinness to discuss the Club’s 2013 Christmas Food Drive. They discuss the work of the Lions Club in over 200 countries worldwide over the past 60 years. In Ireland, the Lions Club liaise with a number of other agencies, including St Vincent de Paul and Women’s Refuges…
Dublin Gay Mens Choir
BARRY JOYCE of the Dublin Gay Mens Choir [crackle and interference on phone line and drop out at beginning of interview] joins Eoin Drinan to discuss their upcoming performance “Summer Serenade” a concert of 30 men performing in the CHQ building. They perform a collection of songs from Sinatra to The Script along with some…
Protest against Corrib Gas Project
Mark Finnegan chats with RUARI MCKIERAN a social campaigner about the Corrib gas project. The Corrib gas project cuts to the core of this republic and asks big questions about how the country is run. For more than 10 years now, campaigners have attempted to highlight the project’s many flaws. It had been one of…
Post Office Ballymun
Noel McGuinness speaks to DERMOT HIGGINS, post master in Ballymun post office talks about sustaining post offices. The government want to encourage people to get their money in the bank instead of the post office. DERMOT talks about the social aspect of using the post office especially for pensioners where they have weekly contact with…
Alcohol Free Night Club
RONNIE O’ BRIEN speaks to PETER O’ BRIEN about the launch of an alcohol free night club in Temple Bar in Dublin City Centre…
Fire Station Artists’ Studios Celebrate 20 Years of Creativity
CLODAGH KENNY, director of the Fire Station Artists’ Studios joins Noel McGuinness to discuss the 20th anniversary of the organisation. Clodagh talks about the genesis of the studios and how the building has always been a place of work, being previously a fire station. Artists are given grants to live and work in the studio…
Brian Hayes MEP Live From Strasbourg 2015
BRIAN HAYES is an Irish Fine Gael politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Dublin since May 2014. He is a former Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South–West constituency, and served as Minister of State at the Department of Finance from 2011 to 2014. Here he talks to Mark Finnegan in an…
Illegal Dumping Causing Problems For Finglas Residents
Sinn Fein councillor DESSIE ELLIS speaks to Yvette Reid about the problem of illegal dumping in the St. Margaret’s area of Finglas. Yvette speaks of her own experience of such problems and Dessie offers suggestions on some ways that the community may prevent such dumping. He says similar issues were addressed in the Dunsink Lane…
