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Paula Wiseman chatted with Travis O’Doherty, the EU programme manager and team leader @ Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly.  He chatted about the URBACT Programme and how it is used to help various projects achieve their goals.  Then Paula chatted with Aoife Sheridan, the CEO for Economic Development for Fingal County Council. Aoife and her team are coordinating the ‘Let’s Play Rush’ project, which has been aided by the URBACT Programme.

Paula Wiseman chatted with Aoife Sheridan, the CEO for Economic Development for Fingal County Council. Aoife and her team are coordinating the ‘Let’s Play Rush’ project, which has been aided by the URBACT Programme.

Paula Wiseman chatted with Travis O’Doherty, the EU programme manager and team leader @ Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly.  He chatted about the URBACT Programme and how it is used to help various projects achieve their goals.

Dublin Punk Untold examines the role Ireland’s capital city played in the punk era. Inspired by the Hope Collective’s Great Gig Memories book, producer and broadcaster Neil Farrelly has spent the past year and a half examining archives and interviewing the people who created Ireland’s punk scene.

In episode 3 – We were powerful, we hear about 2 much loved punk bands from Dublin: Chant!Chant!ChanT and DC Nien, the Downtown Kampus in Cork, the infamous Dark Spaces gig in the Project Arts Centre and we hear what punk meant to the generation who participated in the first wave.

Made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the television licence fee.

Michael Sullivan chats with Veronica McSharry, Specialist Oncology Dietitian, about understanding the risks of weight loss during cancer treatment.

 

Visit:

www.irspen.ie

www.indi.ie

https://breakthroughcancerresearch.ie/

www.cancer.ie

 

 

 

Pof. Paul Downes, Director of Educational Disadvantage Centre at DCU’s Institute of Education joins Johnny Holmes to discuss their new learning hub in Finglas to promote access to third level education and to the teacher profession.

Visit;  www.dcu.ie

 

Declan Cahill, Chairperson of the Board at Near Media Co-op joins Johnny Holmes to speak all about Riverside Drama Circle, now celebrating it’s 50th anniversary.

Visit:  www.riversidedrama.ie

 

 

Green Party Cllr. Donna Cooney joins Johnny Holmes to discuss the urgent need for flood defences in Clontarf.

Visit:   www.greenparty.ie

 

Paul Halpin from Irish Blue Cross joins Johnny Holmes to speak about their sponsored dog walks this summer, entitled “Bark in the Park”.

Visit:   www.dubsimon.ie

 

Want to know more about coming-of-age novels and films and how they continue to inspire and motivate us today? Join Berni Dwan, and her intergenerational guests, on a brand new eight-part series – Growing up Between the Dustjackets – to discover how these universally loved stories are relevant to people of all ages facing their own social challenges today. Learn about young people – in fiction, memoir, and real life – succeeding beyond all expectations despite being challenged by misogyny, racism, indoctrination, fundamentalism, homophobia, prejudice, war and poverty.

Episode 7: Being a Premature Adult: Angela’s Ashes, A Tree Grows in Brooklynand Ithaca – Author – Alan McMonagle, three of my former students from Dun Laoghaire Adult Learning Centre – Margaret Heyward, Maureen Coughlan and Louisa Askin, and Irish Independent book reviewer Estelle Birdy.

Series is produced and presented by Berni Dwan. Sound by Ed Grannell. Dramatic readings by Tara Power and Alan O’Brien. Music by Hannah Cogan. Supported by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Sound and Vision scheme through the Television Licence Fee