Adrianne is joined by Consumer Advisor Eimear Greene from The Health Insurance Authority to offer consumers advice on how to get the best plan to suit their needs and value for money.

Irish Screenwriter Tania Notaro speaks to NearFM’s John Connell on the art of screenwriting. Tania Notaro is an actor who originally turned to screenwriting to create good strong female character roles for film. Tania studied Film and Screenwriting at the National Film School where she attained a Masters Degree. Tania also graduated from Bow Street Actors Academy. She has won awards for her film script Boxed, as well as winning the John Boorman Scholarship Award as well as the Ronan C. Phelan Writers Script Award at IndieCork 2019.

 

Dublin City Council’s Historian in Residence Cormac Moore joins Joe to discuss an ambush on Great Brunswick Street which took place on the 14th of March 1921 that led to the deaths of civilians, IRA and Auxiliaries (present day Pearse Street)

Student Dara O’ Leary from the Ballyfermot College of Further Education joins Joe to discuss his documentary film about coastal erosion occurring at Portrane in north county Dublin & also the history of Portrane, Dara will be interviewing residents that have been affect by the erosion, & chats to politician’s on how to tackle the problem

Business Communications & Marketing executive, Christine Crawford, from Irish Water joins Joe to discuss Chambers Ireland and Irish Water’s announcement of a new partnership calling on Dublin Businesses to get involved in Irish Water’s stewardship programme

Patrick is joined by former Irish men’s under 21 and Irish woman’s manager Noel King who chats about some of the highlights of his career in Irish football.  Noel was recently appointed as manager of the Shelbourne woman’s national league team and chatted to us about his hopes for his sides prospects for the upcoming season.  We also heard about  his memories of working with Jack Charlton in 1990.

John Healy speaks to Maura Lavelle, Children in Hospital Ireland, discussing how the organisation is coping with Covid restrictions on visits etc. and the appeal to get books for children in hospital coming up to World Book Day 2021.

Jackie Haughey from Citizens Information speaks to John about Parental Leave and Benefit.

John speaks to Brian McLoughlin from Inner City Helping Homeless, discussing the January homeless figures, food poverty in Ireland and the ICHH volunteers doing the Jerusalema Dance Challenge.

Myra is joined by Christine O’Kelly from Age Friendly University. Christine is the Global Network Coordinator and speaks about the EU Green Paper on Ageing.