As part of the Outside With Near Series, Near FM went LIVE from St Annes Park for the 2014 Rose Festival Noel Mc Guinness interviewed Terry Wogan of Dublin City Libraries about their involvement at the festival, the mobile library, and Going…
Elaine Mulvanney of Dublin City Council talks to Noel McGuinness about the Age Friendly Town Initiative project that is taking place in Raheny. She says that Dublin City Council is working along with Raheny Business Association with the aim of providing improved…
Orla Dolan is the Fundraising Director of Breakthrough Cancer Research. She talks to Noel McGuinness about how the centre began 15 years ago. She explains about their need for funding for their important research projects. She also talks about one of these…
Tina from the Domestic Workers Action Group talks to Noel McGuinness on Northside Today about how the group was formed to campaign for rights and justice for domestic workers in private homes and how these rights have now been improved by legislation…
Europe On Air 20 – Europe After after WW2 Presenter: Ciaran Murray Guests: John Dorney, Co-presenter of NEARfm’s Irish History Show Peter Cunningham, Treasurer of NEAR Media Coop Jonathan Claridge, Head of Political Section, EC Office, Dublin
Mark Finnegan talks to Yvonne O’Brien about Fingal Libraries online database. They have recently added a “Press Display” to their online sevices. The online Newspaper Portal allows users to to choose from over 2000 newspapers from home and abroad. Yvonne also outlines…
Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association Chief Executive Mark Fielding talks to Mark Finnegan. They discuss how low inflation figures are concealing high costs for businesses. You can get more information about ISME here.
Cllr. Andrew Montague (Labour, Dublin North West) talks to Noel McGuinness about his successful re-election to Dublin City Council. He discusses having a directly elected Mayor for Dublin. He also talks about the success of the Dublin bike scheme and the planned new bike lane on the…
Oisin Coughlan of Friends of the Earth and the Environmental Pillar talks to Noel McGuinness about a Europe/U.S. trade deal that could force Ireland to permit fracking. He says there will be a public meeting on Saturday 12th July to inform people about this trade…
Europe On Air 19 – WW1 and the Irish Situation Chair: Alan Braddish Guests: Cathal Brennan & Padraig Yeates, journalist and author, whose books include ‘A City in Wartime: Dublin 1914-1918’