Mark Finnegan talks to Dr AOIFE O’DONOGHUE , Snr Lecturer at Durham Law School. Aoife is Co- Director of The Northern/Irish Feminists Judgement Project, and chats about the idea behind the project and its findings to date. The project aims to bring a new critical methodology to bear on Irish and Northern Irish legal studies…
Cllr PAUL DONNELLY from Sinn Féin talks to Noel McGuinness about the facing of the eviction in Tyrellstown. More than 100 families in Cruise Park Drive face losing their homes as the fund that owns the properties seeks to sell 103 houses in the area over four years. It is understood 40 households in the estate have…
Pat Meehan is joined by PAT MURPHY an historian and they’re talking about this year’s commemoration of the Asgard .He presents the life of this famous yacht from her launch in 1905 to its current conservation in Collin’s Barracks Museum. Her 23 day voyage to collect guns and ammunition for the Irish Volunteers and the…
JACKIE O’REILLY joins Pat Meehan to discuss the launch of the Finglas Heritage Trail, a trail of fourteen heritage sites. The trail was officially launched by councillor Naoise O’Muiri along with Dublin City Council. They move on to discuss the book “The Peoples Portrait” of Finglas. Jackie carries on to explain the tour itself and how one…
NICKO MURPHY of the Darndale Comunity Pride project joins Yvette Reid to discuss the issue of loose horses in the area which at the time of the interview is a large problem. They discuss the lack of a tagging system in identifying the owner and how 78 horses were reported in the course of five…
PAT MEEHAN talks to PETER LEWIS, of Pyrite Action Group, on updates on the efforts to find a resolution to the pyrite crisis in North and West Dublin as well as East Meath, North Kildare and Offaly…
Pat Meehan is talking to GEORGE MAGDALINA organizer of the 1916 History Tour. George Magdalina registered for support helping out with the commemorations of 1916, which is supported by the City Council. He participated the Easter Rising Commemoration organising the 1916 History Tour…
DIANE KELLY, who is the anti trafficking officer at the Immigrant Council of Ireland, explains how the council is lobbying to make it illegal to purchase sex indoors in Ireland. As of December 2012, it was illegal to solicit or purchase sex outdoors, however a loophole in legislation did not cover the purchasing of sex indoors. They…
Pat Meehan talks to PATRICK GRANT, from the Anti-Eviction Taskforce, about what the group is, its aims and its activities related to home evictions and repossessions…
ODILE LEBELOCK of Stop Food Waste talks to Noel McGuinness about the many ways in which we can save food and resources by simply thinking about what we buy and when. Big supermarkets are very keen to see us buy more than we need and encourage us to do so. Odile gives a few tips…
EDDIE O’BRIEN from Dublin Zoo joins Paula Wiseman on the phone to discuss the arrival of two meerkats pups at the zoo in recent days. Eddie begins by sharing some history of the Zoo itself and paints a picture of his job as team leader at the zoo. We hear that there are 58 full…
WILLIAM HEDERMAN chats to Noel McGuinness about his exhibition of photographs of Rossport which is on show at the Eden Quay Theatre in support of DONAL O’KELLY’s play “Fionnuala”. Fionnuala is about the Corrib Gas fiasco foisted on a small rural community in County Mayo. Ambrose Keogh works for Shell. When the Tunnel Boring Machine…
BERNARD DUGGAN of the IPU offers advice on common ailments suffered by children in the school environment. The Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) was established in 1973. As a membership organisation, the IPU has you, our members, as our number one priority. Our aim is to assist you in delivering the best possible service to your…
Pat Meehan is joined by GRACE WILENTZ, Coordinator of Near FM’s Intercultural Dialogue through Community Media initiative. She updates everyone on the Intercultural Media Projects that she is working on and what is coming up in the following weeks. The Intercultural Dialogue through Community Media Project is co-financed by the European Commission, under the European Integration…
Pat Meehan speaks to TARA from St John of God Menni Services about Lámh Day, which is a day to create awareness, promote and celebrate a standardized form of Irish sign language adapted especially for people with intellectual disabilities. Lábh sign language was developed in the 1980’s…
Flavia Goretta reports from Dublin city, we hear extracts from speeches, and from individual people taking part in the protest have their say also…
BRIAN COLHOUN of Creative Mornings Dublin joins Eoin Drinan to talk about the coffee morning set up as a networking event for people in the creative industries. He shares how they meet once a month and the event tends to draw very high profile members of the creative industries. He explains that each event has a…
Festival Of Curiosity organizer, VINCENT MCCARTHY talks to Eoin Drinan to review the events from this year’s festival. Vincent talks about the success of previous festivals, their focus on the science and culture aspects of the festival, the highlights of the festival including a carnival in Smock Alley Theatre and a Lego exhibition in Temple…
Conor Doyle talks to BRID DOOLEY – Head of RTE Archives about showing after a gap of 50 years the acclaimed “Insurrection” as part of their 1916 Centenary Series. On the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising, Telefís Éireann produced ‘Insurrection’ an eight part drama that depicted the events of Easter Week 1916 as they…
Eoin Drinan speaks to FERGAL MCCARTHY (Visual Artist) and discusses his work in trying to create art that highlights and incorporates the River Liffey in Dublin. They discuss Fergal’s idea of creating a park along a single lane of the traffic along the central length of the River Liffey and compare it to the High…