Near FM – Listen Again

Adrianne Murphy chats to Historian in Residence Cormac Moore to discuss the latest volume in the ‘History on your Doorstep’ series and the launch, which takes place in City Hall on Thursday, 8th December.

Please contact your local library for free copies of the ‘History on your Doorstep’ series of books.

 

Website:

www.dublincity.ie

Adrianne Murphy speaks with Galway based Scottish storyteller Rab Fulton to discuss the 2022’To Be Irish’ Christmas programme and Rab’s Celtic Tales show, which takes place in the Crane Bar in Galway on the 8th, 15th & 22nd of December.

To check out other ‘To Be Irish’ events taking place around the country go to www.tobeirish.ie

Adrianne Murphy is joined by Peter Costello to discuss the educational jigsaw game he has developed for young children called Sumstart.

The game is aimed at children between the age of 3 and 8, is made from eco-friendly materials, and while being educational by helping children count, add, subtract and multiply, it is colourful and lots of fun too.

To find out more or to order the game please go to www.sumstart.com or call Peter on 0876797820.

 

Michael Kelly Coordinator of Helping Hand Care and Repair service joins Mary Oyediran to talk about their  history ,services provided and distribution Christmas Care package 2022 .

Padraig Conlon , editor of the Northside People joins Donie Tarrant to discuss some of this week’s main stories.

Austin Keenan NGO with Concern joins Donie Tarrant live from Sierra Leone about his work there and what current projects Concern are currently engaged in. Austin will also tell us what Christmas is like in Sierra Leone.

As schools/colleges become more dependent on technology, ransom ware attacks against schools are increasing. To help schools worldwide proactively prepare for and respond to cyber attacks, IBM announced the first eight recipients of the 2022 IBM Education Security Preparedness Grants, totaling USD$5 million in in-kind services, including $500,000 to the City of Dublin Education Training Board.  Each grant will sponsor IBM Service Corps volunteers to address the selected school districts’ cyber security resiliency.

To discuss this Donie Tarrant is joined by Elaine Hanley – Partner, IBM Security services, Blake Hodkinson – Director of Education & Training City of Dublin ETB, Gavin Harris- Computer Science Tutor Coláiste Dhúlaigh College of Further Education, Eskandar Atrakchi – Computer Science 2nd year student CDCFE and Ciaran White – computer science student CDCFE.

Dearbhail Butler from the Developing Community team at the Northside Partnership joins Donie Tarrant to chat about the Place Based Leadership Development programme, volunteer appreciation and Empowering Communities programme.

On this weeks show I was joined by Rhys Richards who chatted to us about his recent book Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship’s World Cup. Rhys gave us the lowdown on the controversial World Cup in 1978 in Argentina which was held against the backdrop of a repressive military dictatorship in the country. Rhys also chatted a little about Wales World Cup exit and the importance of the Welsh language in Welsh culture.

Paula Wiseman chats with Irish singer/ songwriter, Sean Millar. Probably better known as Doctor Millar, Sean has just released his sixth solo album and is a long established face on the Irish music scene.

He chats about his origins and journey as a musician, and also about a headline gig he has coming up in Whelans on Sun 11th December.

You can find Sean here;

https://seanmillar.bandcamp.com/

Twitter; @seanmillardub