New chairman of the Near FM board of management Declan Cahill joins Donie to discuss how he sees his role and the problems which may lay ahead for not alone Near FM but other Community sectors in these uncertain times Broadcast Monday…
Cllr Mícheál Mac Donncha joins Donie to discuss demolition of the home of 1916 leader “The O’Rahilly” Home at 40 Herbert Park Broadcast Monday 21st September 2020
Angela Shafer from “Money Made Sense” a new program from the Northside Partnership joins Donie to explain this new development to help people develop their money management skills Broadcast Monday 21st September 2020
What happens in our brain when we lose one language and start to speak in another? Kate Murphy’s mother was not a fluent Irish speaker, and yet as her dementia diagnosis worsened, she lost her ability to speak English and only could…
Prof Brian Lawlor, one of the world’s leading Brain Health Experts meets retired nurse Mary Whelan whose husband Tony has been living with dementia for fifteen years. He was diagnosed at the age of 58. Brian talks about the importance of ‘Hope’…
Karen Meenan speaks to Vanessa Pearse about her debut novel, Deniable Memories, published by Vulpine Press. This book charts the story of a charity worker’s adventure in Sudan in the late 1980s. A very relevant book in these contagion times.
A poetry reading from Catherine Barry’s recent book, A Beautiful Pain, recorded at the book launch last February, at the Writers’ Centre, Parnell Square, Dublin. Available in all good bookshops, Catherine’s heartfelt poems chronicle Dublin from the 1970s to the present. Highly…
To mark the 50th Anniversary of the opening of Colaiste Dhulaigh College of Further Education, NearFM teamed up with the students in their creative writing course. From the absurdly humorous to the downright poignant this program contains a variety of short stories,…