CU@Lunchtime – October 2016

Listen back to this month’s cu@lunchtime with Carol Boon and Alan Braddish giving tips leading up to Christmas on saving money and the new Member Excellence Centre; Andy Flannery’s gigs and events guide and this month’s MFCU Prize Draw.

Enviro – October 17th 2016

Britt & Joe’s first guest is Gill Weyman from the Cork Nature Network (CNN). She has a passion on all wildlife and as part of CNN she runs an otters and invasive species projects. Her interest is also ladybirds and she is working on a PhD on ladybirds…

Enviro – August 29th 2016

Britt & Joe’s first guest is Manna Farm’s Thomas O Connor is based in Kerry (www.transitionkerry.org). Sustainability & photosynthesis is instead of NUKE. He attended the permaculture gathering at the end of August. He is totally against the expansion nuclear power for 2 main reasons: the very long term effects of…

Enviro – 24th October 2016

Susan Carton from Love Leitrim updated ENVIRO listeners as to the, health, costs, and climatic aspects of fracking. She talked about some bad experiences of fracking in the US, where methane much more serious than CO2 is released and ground water contaminated. She explained…

Enviro – 10th August 2016

  PART ONE: Environmentalist Brendan Kelly updated listeners on the right to water, the polluter pays principle and the implications of these. He spoke about the current consultation with regard to the Aarhus Convention. Ireland ratified the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation…

Enviro – 3rd October 2016

PART ONE: Graignamanagh, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland is located on the River Barrow not far from Kilkenny City and is part of a small cluster of towns including Inistioge, County Kilkenny and Borris, County Carlow. Bridget Langton, who runs a B&B in the town talked about…

Family Fun Day

On Cover to Cover Presenter Paula Wiseman interviewed author, Sarah Webb, who is currently the Writer in Residence at the dlr Lexicon in Dun Laoghaire. We chatted about a Roald Dahl themed Family Fun Day that’s happening at the Lexicon on Sat…