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One of my cousins showed me Hiberno Toys on Instagram last year and I was so impressed and amused that I really wanted to meet the maker behind the page!

So in this chat myself and Richard Collier sit down and talk about his eccentric toys of Irish characters then whatever else comes to mind.

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I was really interested to learn about digital achievers, folk who preserve physical artefacts by scanning them to make a digital copy for posterity.

So me and Shameen went to Galway to meet Gary Dempsey of Digital Heritage Age to learn all about it and chat sheela na gigs and other Irish artefacts too.

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Dance is one of the iconic traditions of Ireland with the old styles and the new celebrated in festivals, competitions, dancehalls, clubs, pubs, and now online on TikTok and the like.

So myself and Sessiongoth headed to Manorhamilton to learn more about it from Siobhan Butler, a dance teacher and ethnochoreologist.

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Fungie was a bottleneck dolphin who lived in Dingle Harbour for nearly 40 years and took Ireland by solar flare with his gregarious habit of coming right up to boats to say hello! Fungie brought a lot of tourism and business to Dingle and even folk who went to him for his supposed healing powers, until he vanished in 2020.

So while we was down there in Dingle for Paddys Day we met Jamie Ó Flannúra, who's seen and worked alongside Fungie all his life on the Dingle boats.

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IX Fall$ is a breakcore/atmospheric drum and bass producer from Dundalk who I've been listening to for years now so it was really cool to meet him and chat about music, his inspirations, the underground scene he is a part of and such.

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Siobhan O'Reilly from Limerick goes by Siobhsknits online has been knitting waves with her iconic handmade designs depicting transport routes of Ireland and Irish pop culture so we chatted about it in Crew in Limerick City

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also the 2nd feature length Irish martial arts film (Moving Target)

This time, for Fatal Deviation Day (May 2nd), me and Shameen go on about the cult classic and 1st feature length Irish martial arts film - Fatal Deviation

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It's St Patrick's Day so me and Shameen chatted about Paddy's days here and gone, the man himself, and other palaver.

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When I found out about Emmet making Beyond the Woods, a tabletop RPG based on Irish mythology and folklore, I knew I had to learn more about it.

So we met in Athlone to talk about tabletop, Irish myths, and video games.

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Father Ted is probably the most influential and iconic Irish comedy TV show so far. So much so that there's an annual festival to celebrate the 30 year old programme on Inis Mór, County Galway where attendees dress up like priests and nuns, deep lore references to the show dictate the rituals of the convention, and absurdity becomes the normality for a weekend.

So I chatted to Peter Philips, one of the organisers of the 18 year old event since it's beginning, to learn all about it.

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