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Adrianne Murphy joins Aidan O’ Halloran chairperson of the cherry blossoms to discuss The Cherry Blossoms 2023 Festival.

https://www.dublincity.ie/news/dublin-city-council-launches-cherry-blossoms-2023-festival

Dr BADMUS Akeem Omotayo is the President / CEO ROYCEBARD RESOURCE INTERNATIONAL joins Mary Oyediran to discuss his work and role supporting initiatives to empower women and youth.

Dr. Maria Quinlan, sociologist and founder of Pink Flower Research and Niamh McTiernan, Director of Services, Northside Partnership join Donie Tarrant to discuss a research report & photo exhibition they are launching on Tuesday 28th March. The report, Forgotten Communities -CLONGRIFFIN & BELMAYNE COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT, will be used to advocate on behalf of both communities for the increased services, supports and facilities that are essential for a community to flourish.

http://www.northsidepartnership.ie

Paula Wiseman chats with Barrister, Darren Lalor about how Barristers are not being paid a fair amount of money for the extensive work they do on a daily basis.  Darren talks about his lengthy time as a Barrister and about a protest that is being organised to highlight the issue of fair pay in the professsion.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/celebration-failure-darren-lalor-bl-2e/

 

EVENT: A CELEBRATION OF FAILURE

VENUE: THE STEPS OF YOUR LOCAL COURTHOUSE

DATE: 2 MAY 2023 – 10AM-3PM

COST: YOUR FUTURE

Paula Wiseman chats with Kerrie Sheehan, Head of Research & Technology at Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) about how it has recently awarded approximately €19 million in Government funding to support more than 40 new energy research projects across Ireland.

https://www.seai.ie/news-and-media/19-million-in-government

 

 

Paula Wiseman chatted with Northern Irish singer, songwriter Lauren Ann.

Relatively new on the music scene, Lauren Ann chats about her journey as a musician and her songwriting processes.

She also speaks about her new single, ‘Other Stuff’ which came out on the 17th March and plans for the future.

 

Lauren Ann (@laurenann_music)

 

Paula Wiseman chats with Jo Donohoe, Project Lead for Mental Health Ireland about their latest campaign, ‘Hello, How Are You?’.  In partnership with Iarnród Éireann Teams, they are hosting events in Dublin, Cork and Galway on Thurs 30th March to encourage people to connect with eachother.  With music, activities, resources, freebies, live radio coverage and some very special guests, the events will be starting at 7.30am that morning. 

www.hellohowareyou.info

https://www.mentalhealthireland.ie/

Steven Baldesco was born in the Philippines but has lived in Ireland for 16 years now. He currently work in a government agency, but his passions have always been politics, art, and history. In 2022, he was a volunteer for the presidential campaign of Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo, leading the voter turnout ops for her among the Filipino community in Ireland. His efforts in the campaign allowed him to participate in the Immigrant Council of Ireland’s Migrant Leadership Academy later that same year

Steven Baldesco 出生於菲律賓，係愛爾蘭生活16 年。佢目前係一家政府機構工作，但佢一直熱衷於政治、藝術和歷史。 2022 年，佢係菲律賓副總統萊尼·羅布雷多 (Leni Robredo) 總統競選活動嘅義工，係愛爾蘭嘅菲律賓社群領導選民投票率行動。佢同年參加愛爾蘭移民領袖學院

 

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Amina Abdulla, Concern’s Regional Director for the Horn of Africa joins Johnny Holmes to discuss the need for more funding to help families suffering from famine in the region. Amina is currently based in Nairobi, Kenya.

https://www.concern.net/

1st Broadcast: 23/03/23

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Hans Zomer, CEO of Global Action Plan Ireland joins Johnny Holmes to speak about their “Climate Heroes Challenge” which is a nationwide climate competition for community groups around the country.

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1st Broadcast: 23/03/23