The BAI funded Radio and TV as Learning Resources Conference took place in the Teachers Club, Dublin on Saturday 7th November 2015 . The focus of the conference was on an exchange of views and experiences between media and education practitioners to explore how community media can produce social benefit type content, of a broadly educational nature. Flavia…
JACK BYRNE, one of the founders of NearFM chats to John Healy about the station’s beginnings. North Dublin community radio station Near FM, which marks its 20th anniversary next week, had very humble beginnings. Its first studio was an empty car crate, wallpapered with egg boxes, located in a vacant school dormitory in Coolock. From…
EDDIE BOHAN of Dublin Community Television DCTV) joins Ger Leddin in studio. Eddie is the creator of a six part series called “Pirate Days” which documents the Pirate radio scene in Dublin and is broadcasting on DCTV. They talk about the early days, and setting up a radio station. The first episode looks at pirate…
Near Media Co-Op is a not-for-profit community media project. The project consists of Near FM and Near TV and works in platforms as diverse as computer training, drama production, assisting unsigned musicians and educational programming. Near FM broadcasts 24 hours a day over 365 days per year. We operate an open access policy and run…
DAVE O’CONNOR Secretary of NEAR Media Co-op talks to Noel McGuinness about Near FM’s 17th birthday celebrations and reflects back on the station’s history. Near FM first went on air in 1995. Then, it was only on three days a week, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The first voice on Near FM was Chairman, Vincent Teeling…
Mark speaks to AUDREY MCCREADY, former EU commission employee about the facts and fiction of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). She talks about her experiences whilst in ...
02 Nov 2015
RENUA Ireland TD, TERENCE FLANAGAN welcomes news that construction work began on the Dublin Bay cyclepath in Clontarf this week. Chatting to Pat Meehan, he says: “There is currently ...
28 May 2015
Noel Mc Guinness speaks to DR. LIAM LYSAGHT who is director of the National Biodiversity Data Centre. He speaks about where wild life occurs in Ireland & how people can ...
23 Jan 2015
PAT GUERIN talks to ROSANNA FLYNN from Residents Against Racism, a group campaigning against all forms of racism in Ireland, on the history and activities of the group as ...
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GER REDMOND from the Northside Partnership joins Donie Tarrant to discuss the Get The Message Out. It is a group of community organisations that have a youth / addiction ...
25 Apr 2022