DARRAGH O’CONNOR, campaign coordinator with SIPTU, joins Pat Meehan to discuss the union’s lobbying of Minister Phil Hogan over plans to align development companies with local authorities. Darragh says SIPTU is concerned about potential job losses and loss of power for community groups if the plans become a reality. They also discuss Minster Joan Burton’s…
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Federation Of Irish Beekeepers Association member, MICHAEL GLEESON talks to Pat Meehan from the annual Beekeepers summer course in Gormanstown, Co. Meath. Michael talks about the history of the ...
22 Jul 2013
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John Healy talks to JACK BYRNE about the setting up of the Near FM media co-op twenty years ago this ...
10 Jun 2015
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Doctor ANNE MARIE HALPENNY of DIT’s Early Childhood education programme, joins Ger Leddin to discuss a recent call on the government, made by the Children Rights Alliance, to ban ...
12 Sep 2013
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Fianna Fail Councillor DARRAGH BUTLER has proposed that Fingal council investigate rock band U2’s desire to display the stages from their past tours at a permanent location in Dublin. ...
20 Jul 2015
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American cartoonist, actor, and director CHUCK HUBER is in Dublin for the Anime Society’s Croke Park event. For those who don’t know, anime is the generic name given to ...
20 Nov 2014