Hate Speech – Near FM

Interview with Shane O’Curry from ENAR

admin June 27, 2018

Shane O’ Curry from ENAR joins Noel to discuss the rise of xenophobia and hard right hate speech across Europe.

20 Respect Words

sally April 24, 2018

Two of the programme presenters, Donie Tarrant and Adrianne Murphy, summarise the Respect Words Radio campaign, bring back some of the voices of those who took part in the programme and highlight the importance of Respect and Words. More on the project:…

19 Respect Words A Young Voice against Racism

sally April 12, 2018

Donie Tarrant travels to Drogheda to meet Joella Dhlamini, a 16 years old South African who had the opportunity to spend a full day with Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varackar on November 2017. Joella was chosen by UNICEF to represent the views…

18 Respect Words. Direct Provision

sally April 6, 2018

Donie Tarrant talks to Senator Aodhan O’Riordan. On 15 July 2014 Ó Ríordáin was appointed Minister of State with responsibility for New Communities, Culture and Equality at the Departments of Justice and Equality and Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. As Minister of…

17 Respect Words… That’s it: respect words

sally March 26, 2018

Donie Tarrant talks to Noeline Blackwell, a human rights lawyer who is Chief Executive of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. She was formerly the Director General of the Free Legal Advice Centre (FLAC), and before that, was the principal of a solicitor’s…

16 Respect Words: All Different, All Equal. International Day against Racism.

sally March 26, 2018

Adrianne Murphy talks to Shane O’Curry, director of European Network Against Racism-Ireland on the significance of International Day Against Racial Discrimination (21st March), and events plan to mark the day. More on the project: Amid a troubling global context – the dehumanisation…

14 Respect Words – Challenging Islamophobia

sally March 12, 2018

Adrianne Murphy speaks to Dr. James Carr, Department of Sociology and a member of the Hate & Hostility Research Group at the University of Limerick, and Saham Muhamed, from Iraq who has been living and working in Ireland for over 3 years…

12 Respect Words – The Irish Ethnic Minority

sally March 1, 2018

Alan Braddish talks with Irish Traveller Movement Board member Oein DeBhairduin and Martin Collins of the Roma and Traveller Centre Pavee Point on the past and present discrimination suffered by the Traveller Community in Ireland on the week before the first anniversary of…

11 Respect Words – United in Sports

sally March 1, 2018

Ciaran Murray introduces Tatjana Skot’s interview with Ken McCue of Sports Against Racism Ireland (SARI) who explains the ethos of the organisation and how sport, and specially soccer, can be a tool for integration and solidarity. Later, Ciaran talks to Garrett Mullan…

10 Respect Words- Asylum vs. Direct Provision

sally February 8, 2018

Adrianne Murphy introduces Sally Galiana’s interview with Lucky Khambule, one of the founding members of Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI) about the Direct Provision regime imposed by Irish authorities on asylum seekers in Ireland. Later, Adrianne speaks with Mister X,…

09 Respect Words- East is East

sally February 2, 2018

Adrianne Murphy talks to Juta Celmare from Latvia and Tatjana Skot and Matej Silipetar from Croatia about their experience of living in Ireland as migrants, and how integration is a two way road. More on the project: Amid a troubling global context…

08 Respect Words- Tracking racism in Ireland

sally January 23, 2018

Ciaran Murray talks to Dr Lucy Michael, Sociology lecturer (Ulster University). Dr Michael works closely with civil society organisations and public bodies to improve reporting and recording of racist incidents, and to collect data to understand the particular experiences of ethnic minorities of…