Near FM – Listen Again

Near FM presents a unique performance from Navá, recorded in Dublin’s Hugh Lane Gallery in the summer of 2021. The performance is interspersed with interviews with the band, offering insights into how they got together, cultural influences and where this journey might take them. The concert was recorded by Ber Quinn. Interviews by Ken Tuohy, and programme mixed by Paul Loughran. Thanks to Mary Barnecutt and all in the Hugh Lane gallery, Dublin.

Navá is a group of young musicians exploring the relationship between the ancient musical cultures of Ireland and Persia. It is comprised of folk/bluegrass musicians Paddy Kiernan and Niall Hughes, and Iranian born brothers Shahab and Shayan Coohe. In this concert, guitarist Tony Byrne subs for Niall.

Supported by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Sound and Vision scheme through the Television Licence Fee.

 

Dualta Rougheen spoke to Debbie McMahon about how they plan to call on the Irish public to continue to donate as staff on the ground begin assessing the needs of children seeking refuge from the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

Visit:  www.plan.ie

Mary Moynihan from Smashing times spoke to Debbie McMahon about events for Easter.

 

 

Myra Gleeson speaks to Sharon Rossignnuolo,  The organiser of the Fingal Enterprising Women’s Network Business Event which takes place on Friday 11th March. Clayton Hotel at 11.00am – 12.30pm. Guest speaker Lorraine Keane.

Myra Gleeson speaks to Matthew Gibb, Director of the Dementia Service Information & Development Centre.

Dementia Service:  01 4162035

Alzheimer Society Helpline:  1800 341 341

Visit:  www.dementia.ie

 

Councillors have approved plans by Fingal County Council for a new recreational hub that will provide modern facilities for the community around Meakstown. Deputy Lord Mayor of Fingal Daniel Whooley joins Donie Tarrant to chat about the exciting project and how it demonstrates real commitment from the Council in terms of its continuing responsibility across the youngest county in Ireland and will bring a much-needed community and sports centre to Dublin 11.

 

Campaigner with Uplift, Michelle Byrne joins Donie Tarrant to discuss their campaign and what can be done to help the beleaguered.

Visit:  www.my.uplift.ie

 

Katie O’Rourke, Head of Communications with AONTAS joins Donie Tarrant to discuss The Learner’s Voice Initiative, based in Dublin, and has been shortlisted for an AONTAS STAR AWARD in the European Social Fund category. The STAR Awards (Showcasing Teamwork, Awarding Recognition) are an awards initiative organised by the national adult learning organisation, AONTAS, to recognise and celebrate the work undertaken by adult learning initiatives throughout Ireland.

For more information visit:  www.aontas.com

 

Angela Shafer from the “Money Made Sense” at the Northside partnership joins Donie Tarrant to with some ideas how people can get the very maximum from their money.  The aim of the programme is build people’s financial capabilities so they can make the most of their money. The programme is run in conjunction with MABS and the next one starts on 22nd March.

For more information visit:   www.northsidepartnership.ie

 

‘The media provides a vital public service for our society. It is fundamental to our democracy. It underpins how people stay informed, and how they engage with Ireland’s language, culture and sport.’ – The Future of the Media Commission

‘New Year, New Media’ was recorded on 15 February 2022 and organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute, Trinity College Dublin.  In this virtual event, Adrian Bingham (University of Sheffield) and Mark Little (Trinity College Dublin and Kinzen) sit down with Elspeth Payne (Trinity College Dublin) to discuss the big questions facing the media in 2022. The conversation is part of the Schuler Democracy Forum programme and aligns with the Trinity Long Room Hub Policy Initiative. 

Near FM Social Benefit programming is made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.

About the speakers … 

Adrian Bingham is Head of Department and Professor of Modern British History at the University of Sheffield and Senior Associate of the History & Policy initiative in the UK.

Adrian has worked extensively on the British national popular press post-1918. His books include Gender, Modernity, and the Popular Press in Inter-War Britain (Oxford, 2004) and Family Newspapers? Sex, Private Life and the British Popular Press 1918-1978 (Oxford, 2009). He is currently working on a project entitled ‘Everyday Politics, Ordinary Lives: Democratic Engagement in Britain, 1918-1992’, supported by an AHRC Leadership Fellowship.

Adrian has significant experience in consultation for public policymaking and has contributed to media debates about historical child sexual abuse and press regulation in the UK. His historical evidence was cited in four public reports on the Jimmy Savile scandal in 2014-15 and his research cited in the 2012 Leveson Inquiry. He has co-authored numerous policy papers and media articles, and in January 2018 he was awarded, with colleagues Louise Jackson and Lucy Delap, the first Royal Historical Society Public History Prize for Public Debate and Policy. He currently serves on the External Advisory Board of the Schuler Democracy Forum at the Trinity Long Room Hub.

Mark Little is the inaugural Schuler Democracy Forum Media Fellow in the Trinity Long Room Hub and founder and CEO of Kinzen.

Mark spent 20 years in broadcast news, as a reporter and presenter for RTÉ. He was the station’s first Washington correspondent, and in 2001, he won the Irish TV Journalist of the Year award for his reporting from Afghanistan. He has been anchor of the current affairs programme Prime Time, and is the author of three books on the US and world affairs. In 2010, he founded the world’s first social news agency, Storyful, which was eventually sold to News Corp. He has also worked for Twitter, as Vice President for Media in Europe and Managing Director of its International Headquarters. In 2017, he co-founded Kinzen, which combines editorial skills and artificial intelligence to protect online conversations and communities.

Mark served on the Irish Future of Media Commission and, as part of his work at Kinzen, is currently engaged in discussions on regulation and disinformation in media practice.

Elspeth Payne is the Coordinator of the Schuler Democracy Forum and Research Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. The Forum brings together Arts and Humanities researchers and media practitioners to interrogate questions relating to democracy, media, technology and communication. Elspeth also works on the renegotiation of Anglo-Irish relationships in the British press between 1922 and 1932...