{"id":24982,"date":"2018-01-22T19:57:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T19:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=24982"},"modified":"2018-01-22T19:57:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T19:57:46","slug":"ruairi-mckiernan-social-change-campaigner-talks-to-norma-burke-on-northside-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=24982","title":{"rendered":"Ruair\u00ed McKiernan, social change campaigner talks to Norma Burke on Northside Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ruair\u00ed_McKiernan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24983\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ruair\u00ed_McKiernan-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ruair\u00ed_McKiernan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ruair\u00ed_McKiernan-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ruair\u00ed_McKiernan-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ruair\u00ed_McKiernan.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Ruair\u00ed McKiernan is a campaigner, social entrepreneur and public speaker, and a presidential appointee to the Council of State. He founded youth advocacy group SpunOut.ie in 2004 and also helped establish civic action community Uplift and Gaelic Voices For Change, a group of past and present inter-county GAA players focused on social issues. He also hosts the Love and Courage podcast and was selected by Ashoka Ireland as one of 10 people in Ireland championing social change &#8211; the full list was featured in the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_140\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/RuariMcKiernanNB.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('140','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/RuariMcKiernanNB.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/RuariMcKiernanNB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=24982-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/RuariMcKiernanNB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"RuariMcKiernanNB.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 18:10 &#8212; 25.0MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b Ruair\u00ed McKiernan is a campaigner, social entrepreneur and public speaker, and a presidential appointee to the Council of State. He founded youth advocacy group SpunOut.ie in 2004 and also helped establish civic action community Uplift and Gaelic Voices For Change, a group of past and present inter-county GAA players focused on social issues. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_141\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/RuariMcKiernanNB.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('141','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/RuariMcKiernanNB.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/RuariMcKiernanNB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=24982-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/RuariMcKiernanNB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"RuariMcKiernanNB.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 18:10 &#8212; 25.0MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5611,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northside-today-2","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24984,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24982\/revisions\/24984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}