{"id":35283,"date":"2020-01-28T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=35283"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:30:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T10:30:23","slug":"enviro-27th-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=35283","title":{"rendered":"Enviro: 27th January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&amp;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Fenviro-27th-january-2020%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>We announced that any candidates who are going up for election this time and<\/em><br \/>\n<em>wish to \u2018set out their stall\u2019 environmentally can have about 5 minutes at the Enviro program on the<\/em><br \/>\n<em>3 rd of February. They can just call in to NEAR fm between 3.15 and 4.15 and ask for the Enviro<\/em><br \/>\n<em>program<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Seamus Mallon:<\/strong> Today we celebrated the life of Seamus Mallon one of Ireland\u2019s great patriots-not in<br \/>\na militaristic sense but as a builder of peace. Ireland has had a very chequered history over many<br \/>\ncenturies with frequent conflicts generally not of the ordinary people\u2019s making With the \u2018Good<br \/>\nFriday Agreement\u2019 a miracle happened and Seamus Mallon was one of those who helped in<br \/>\nshepherding the process whenever called upon to do so. But he was not alone as there were many<br \/>\nother peacemakers, including unsung heroes like for example Redemptorist priests Fr. Gerry<br \/>\nReynolds and rev.Fr Alec Reid and parish priest Fr Des Wilson. Fr. Reynolds was central to<br \/>\nefforts to develop a peace process years before it eventually took root and he believed<br \/>\ntotally in the primacy of dialogue\u201d The same can be said of former Irish government<br \/>\nadviser Dr Martin Mansergh, and Presbyterian minister Rev Ken Newell for their<br \/>\njoint efforts in bringing about ceasefires. At the early stages sometimes they had<br \/>\nto meet in secret and invented codes to avoid detection by the authorities as it<br \/>\nwas not politic at the time to have dialogue with the IRA. It was in a sense the<br \/>\nwork of miracles THAT THE FIRST STEPS WERE TAKEN THEN AND THAT the peace process continues.<br \/>\nToday with the re-establishment of the Northern Ireland parliament.<br \/>\nThis radio program Enviro is a pro peace and anti-war program and we celebrate the miracle of<br \/>\npeace in Ireland. Forest Friends Ireland has played a small role supportive of the peace process with<br \/>\nits \u2018Peace Forest Ireland \u2018Project and the planting of thousands of peace trees in the border counties.<br \/>\nImbolc-the beginning of spring and ancient Celtic festival coincides with the Brilgid festival. On this<br \/>\noccasion we conducted a phone interview with Dolores Whelan about the Brigid of Faughart 2020<br \/>\nfestival- A Celebration of Brigid Celtic Saint and ancient triple goddess of Ireland Dolores will outline<br \/>\nthe events which will take place. She was joined by Roisin Cotter one of the festival organisers.<br \/>\ninfo@brigidoffaughart.ie (See Brigit\u2019s Cloak and father\u2019s sword) :). Brigit\u00a0Bright\u00a0Goddess of\u00a0the<br \/>\nGael.\u00a0was a\u00a0goddess of\u00a0the Tuatha D\u00e9 Danann. She was a daughter of the chief of the<br \/>\ngods, The Dagda, and was known as a\u00a0goddess of\u00a0healers, poets, smiths, childbirth and<br \/>\ninspiration. Her name means &amp;quot;exalted one Joe Dunne Dolores and Roisin and myself had a<br \/>\ndiscussion on the importance of this festival and the various activities in the program.<\/p>\n<p><em>Producer\/Presenter John Haughton: Panellist Joe Dunne<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Phone interview with Dolores Whelan and Roisin Cotter about the Brigid of Faughart festival<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We announced that any candidates who are going up for election this time and wish to \u2018set out their stall\u2019 environmentally can have about 5 minutes at the Enviro program on the 3 rd of February. They can just call in to NEAR fm between 3.15 and 4.15 and ask for the Enviro program Seamus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6154,1217,17109,4412,1723,17110,17111,17108,17114,17113,17112],"class_list":["post-35283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dolores-whelan","tag-festival","tag-good-friday-agreement","tag-joe-dunne","tag-john-haughton","tag-pro-peace-and-anti-war-program","tag-roisin-cotter","tag-seamus-mallon","tag-the-brigid-of-faughart-festival-2020","tag-the-dagda","tag-tuatha-de-danann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35283","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=35283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35286,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35283\/revisions\/35286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}