A very special programme featuring three community experts who were recent contributors to the Fingal Memory Makers Publication. Poet Peter Owens (85) from Malahide, Trinity Drama student Maureen Penrose from Blanchardstown and artist Nancy Dempsey (94) from Portrane talk about their life…
It’s a dull early summer evening in suburban Dublin. I’m in my favourite room – the back garden; having just emerged from my second favourite room – the greenhouse. The flowers on the apple, pear and plum trees have been replaced with…
Did you know that Charles Darwin had a go at eating owl? While at Cambridge University he was a member of the “Gourmet Club,” which met once a week to eat animals not often found on menus. He found the old brown owl ‘indescribable’.…
Next time you visit that fine institution that never succumbed to the vagaries of fashion: the Natural History Museum on Dublin’s Merrion Square – and please do so very soon – take a look at the display cabinets that contain the marine…
Inishowen resident Jim Doherty discusses the impact of a hard Brexit on border communities, businesses, and people who travel across the border each day for work. Jim lives in Donegal but works as an Associate Lecturer in Creative Media & Journalism at…
Africa is just huge! With a population of 1.2 billion it’s difficult for us to comprehend just how huge! Wambui Karanja from Kenya, Primrose Nyamayaro from Zimbabwe and Funmi Akindejoye from Nigeria – all Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) Fellows explain the…
Neil is joined by Niall from the Hope Collective, a long running punk/diy collective from Dublin. Niall speaks about their newly launched book Great Gig Memories. Great Gig Memories is a collection of Favourite Gigs. Recalling some gig memories from Punks and…
Neil interviewed Cathy from Dublin Digital Radio about their upcoming 4th birthday celebrations, highlights of the 4 years and the community which the volunteer lead station represents.
We are honoured to celebrate another two awe-inspiring female Writers this week. Be inspired, challenged as they express their honest experience of life, wisdom, wit and imaginative writings. Their conversation about friends is revealing straight from the heart. Enjoy! SPECIAL GUESTS 1.…
We are honoured to celebrate an outstanding Poetess. In the second part of the show we join heart with three guests to pay tribute to Joan Bradley, a Writer. Joan was one of founder members of the Irish Christian Writers Fellowship. Please…