Caitriona Redmond talks to Noel McGuinness on Northside2Day about the Balbriggan Allotment Association. She describes the benefits of growing your own vegetables and fruit, the social aspects of having an allotment and the therapeutic effects of gardening. In addition to the allotments…
Emer Costello MEP for Dublin talks to Ger Leddin on Northside Today about the Youth Guarantee Scheme which deals with youth unemployment. A significant amount of EU funding has been set aside for this scheme to provide a quality framework for further…
Trevor Sargent talks to Noel McGuinness on Northside2Day about Potato Day at Sonairte, the wide variety of potatoes that are available and the benefits of growing your own.
Charles Stanley Smith of the Environmental Pillar talks to Noel McGuinness on Northside2Day about hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking”. This is a technique used to release gas or other substances from rock formations. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently undertaking…
Joanne Lindsay Martin of the Peter McVerry Trust talks to Noel McGuinness on Northside2Day about their fundraising walk – the Long Walk Home – which will take place over the May Bank Holiday weekend. This “Grand Canal Challenge” involves participants walking 80…
John Healy talks to Niamh Griffin, photographer, and Declan Magee, Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, about the recent photographic exhibition concerning surgery.com held in Northside Civic Centre.
The introductory podcast of the 1913 Unfinished Business series on the centenary of the Dublin Lock-out. The team look at Ireland and Dublin in the early twentieth century and introduce two of the key protagonists of the battle, the ITGWU’s Jim Larkin…
Six Irish swimmers have now joined the ranks of the International Ice Swim Association. Fergal Somerville talks to Noel McGuinness on Northside2Day about the ice swim in Lough Dan on 24th February which allowed them to qualify as members of the International…
Paul Freeney, Photographer, talks to Noel McGuinness on Northside2Day about a photowalk with a difference – this one will be for people to use a mobile phone camera and the Instagram app or any film camera, as opposed to a digital camera.…