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Fingal County Council Inclusive Sports

Rodrigo June 16, 2026

Nuala Casey, Fingal County Council’s Active Cities Coordinator joins Mercedes López to speak about Fingal County Council Inclusive Sports and its Watersports Camp 2026.

The Working Mind

Cait June 9, 2026

Jacqui Mulligan, Project Co-ordinator for The Working Mind and Mental Health First Aid Ireland, joins Mercedes López to talk speak about the programme launch and its application at Irish workplaces.

2026 Immigrant Council of Ireland’s National Integration Conference 1

paulwoodward June 4, 2026

Teresa Buczkowska, CEO Immigrant Council of Ireland joined Mercedes López to talk about current migration policies, realities and communities in Ireland and Europe. 1st Broadcast 4th June 2026 https://www.immigrantcouncil.ie/campaign/integration/integration-conference https://www.immigrantcouncil.ie/team/teresa-buczkowska

2026 Immigrant Council of Ireland’s National Integration Conference 2

paulwoodward June 4, 2026

Brian Killoran, National Coordinator Ukraine Civil Society Forum, talked to Mercedes López about the situation of Ukranian refugees. https://www.immigrantcouncil.ie/campaign/ukraine-civil-society-forum

2026 Dublin Tech Summit: Genotone

Rodrigo June 4, 2026

Andrew Melchior, Genotone’s founder & Massive Attack’s CTO in conversation with Mercedes López at the 2026 Dublin Tech Summit about AI and technology impact on history, culture and society and protecting creators.

2026 Dublin Tech Summit: Cybersecurity

Rodrigo June 4, 2026

Robert McArdle, director of Trend AI’s Forward looking Threat Research (FTR), Adversary Intelligence and Monitoring (AIM), Munster Technological University (MTU) and University College Dublin (UCD), lecturer talked to Mercedes López about cybersecurity.

Fair Trade

paulwoodward May 21, 2026

How fair is Fair Trade for women tea workers? Rebecca Bricchi, Queen Mary University London, talked about Fair Trade and Darjeerling women tea workers to Mercedes López at the 2026 DCU Ireland India Institute, Ninth Annual South Asia Conference 1st Broadcast 21 May 2026 https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sbm/research/research-centres/clgp/ https://www.dcu.ie/ireland-india-institute/

Asian Communities in Ireland

paulwoodward May 21, 2026

Mercedes López interviewed Prof. Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Professor of Sociology, Maynooth University, about Asian Irish TikTokers and Asian Irish Identity and to Dr Hadiqa Mir about The Media Framing of Asian Communities in Ireland, at the 2026 Asian & Irish Community Connect and Trinity Centre for Asian Studies’ conference “Speaking Up, Stepping In: Asian Communities…

Young Social Innovators

paulwoodward May 21, 2026

Sara Thompson, Communications Manager, Young Social Innovators and Isabel Mulally and Hariharan Senthilkumar, TY students with Sarah Ann Cashman, Geography and English teacher, from Lusk Community College , join Mercedes López to talk about the YSI Awards and their new patron, President Connolly. 1st Broadcast 21th May 2026 https://www.youngsocialinnovators.ie/

Coding at Dublin 2026 Sensoria Festival

paulwoodward May 7, 2026

Eion McDonnell, founder and Nicole, coding teacher at Coding Classes.ie chat with Mercedes López about learning coding and programming languages and the benefits to children and young people. 1st Broadcast 7th May 2026 eoin@codingclasses.ie https://www.instagram.com/c odingclasses.ie/

Dublin Libraries at the Dublin 2026 Sensoria Festival Sensoria 2026

paulwoodward May 7, 2026

Chris Nugent, Senior Librarian, Dublin City Council Libraries, Community, Children Services and Social Inclusion gives Mercedes López recommendations on library resources, authors, titles and publishers aimed young and grown up neurodiverse and general readers. 1st Broadcast 7th May 2026 https://www.dublincity.ie/news/dublin-city-council-sensoria-neurodivergent-friendly-festival-all

Storytelling at the Dublin 2026 Sensoria Festival Sensoria 2026

paulwoodward May 7, 2026

Sinéad Nic Thomáis and Margaret Kirwan, Naíonra teachers from “Scéalaíocht le Margaret agus Sinéad” at the 2026 Sensoria Festival’s Storytelling Tent talked to Mercedes López on how to tell and engage children, neurodiverse or not, with stories 1st Broadcast 7th May 2026…

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