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In light of a recent Guide to End Violence Against Women that has been produced by Ireland’s Youth Information website SpunOut. Adrianne Murphy chats to Rebekah Connolly, Gender, Sexuality & Relationships Content Editor with SpunOut to discuss the organisation and its aims.

If you or a young person you know has an issue and wish to chat to someone then just text the word SPUNOUT to 50808.

Strategies for Change Project Worker with Independent Living Movement Ireland, Fiona Weldon speaks to Adrianne Murphy about ILMI and their call for a change in society’s attitude towards people living with a disability and a Webinar they are hosting in relation to the representation of disabled people in the media.

A Lending Hand provides support to individuals and families in Dublin who are struggling with poverty or are homeless and living on the streets of our Capital.

Adrianne Murphy speaks to Kiera Gill, the founder of A Lending Hand about the help she and her team of volunteers offer to these vulnerable people.

Myra Gleeson speaks to CEO Julie Garland and her Drone Company. Avtrain and upcoming Drone Pilot training courses.

For more details visit: www.avtrain.aero   or   www.vertx.aero

Myra Gleeson speaks to CEO Michael Sheridan Irish Community Air Ambulance, which operates in Cork and funded by Donations.

Regular contributor Alan Tuffery joins Donie Tarrant to expound on why People are living in poverty if their income and resources (material, cultural and social) are so inadequate so as to preclude them from having a standard of living that is regarded by Irish society generally

Mark Ward SF T.D. joins Donie Tarrant to discuss his call for action as right across this state, there are thousands of potential homes falling further and further into disrepair. Many of these are in Dublin Mid-West and are being left idle and rotting in the middle of a housing crisis by land hoarders.

The Derelict Sites Levy was introduced as one of a number of tools available to local authorities to tackle dereliction.

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Rounding off our second series of new audio drama from women writers is ‘Angry Bird’ by Tamsin Larby.

Eileen Nolan is a 75-year old ‘force of nature’ who has had enough and because she has nothing to lose, that makes her ferocious!  She sees the populist Far Right as not only dangerous, but comes with discriminatory attitudes towards women, and being a survivor of domestic violence, she won’t tolerate this either.   She eggs the leader of the anti-immigrant “Irish Citizen’s Party” in a very public display to make her point, and starts to really enjoy her new rebellious ‘celebrity’ status.  However, her motives are more complicated than just politics. 

Her solicitor, Lisa Cleary, discovers Eileen has an estranged daughter, Chloe, who desperately wants to reconnect with Eileen as she escapes from her violent husband, but now can’t with all the publicity surrounding her mum.  In trying to bring Chloe back into her life, Eileen has pushed her even further away.  How will she resolve needing to make her political point and get to see her daughter again?

Cast:

Eileen – Mary McNamara

Radio presenter – Maura Walsh

Alex – Peter Prior

Usher – Declan Cahill

Niall McNally – Noel Kavanagh

Roisin Hayes – Rebecca Blomfield

Garda Larkin – Tommy Campbell

Lisa Cleary – Melissa Nolan

Chris – Ian Shipley

Geraldine – Cleary  Mary Neylon

Chloe Dillon – Frances Keogh

RTE presenter – Tommy Campbell

Judge Kennedy – Peter Prior

Prison guard – Carol Dempsey

Directed by

Declan Cahill

Music

Marty Gots A Plan by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4992-marty-gots-a-plan

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Emily miller from Petmania joins Noel McGuinness to discuss how Petmania has launched a new range of plant-powered doggy superfoods for pets that want to try the veganuary challenge and reduce their carbon pawprin.

For more information visit:  www.petmania.ie

 

Cormac Moore joins Noel McGuinness to discuss Sectarian violence that happened in Northern Ireland in 1922.

Visit:  www.dublincity.ie