Near FM wins Celtic Media Festival award for best radio drama with ‘Petals’ by Gillian Greer.

The Celtic Media Festival is an annual 3 day event that promotes the languages and cultures of the Celtic Nations and Regions in media. It combines a major conference of seminars and master classes with  presentation of  coveted prizes in an international competition across all the main content genres in TV, radio, film and digital media. This year due to the COVID-19 outbreak the awards were held online. “Hugely ambitious, hugely captivating and hugely original. The prospect of an hour […]

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The Global Thread

Broadcasting every Tuesday in April at 6pm, starts April 7th The 4th and final episode, Women on the March, broadcasting Tuesday May 5th @ 6pm Tune into Near FM every TUESDAY in April for The Global Thread, a special four part series that will raise public awareness of active citizenship around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.  Produced in partnership with Comhlamh, this series will focus on gender equality and reproductive rights; sustainable energy and extractive industries; deinstitutionalisation of children’s care and economic inequalities.  […]

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COCOONTUNES

COCOONTUNES | Thursdays 3.30 – 4.3pm | Near FM Every Thursday from 3.30 – 4.30pm, Madeleine Ebbs (Dublin City Council) and Near FM’s Michael Sullivan will present Near FM’s Cocoontunes! The idea is to try include a lot of older people who perhaps don’t have access to modern technology with a radio programme for those who are cocooning, with music from the 50’s 60’s and 70’s. You can send your requests to cocoontunes@near.ie, text 087 6944599 or phone 01 8671190 

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New Audio Drama – All Honey by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth

Broadcasting Tuesday May 4th at 6.30pm All honey is a dark, modern day farce about a group of friends forced to face each other’s deadly sins. The play takes place in the apartment of Ru and Luke, a couple in their early 30’s, who are throwing a housewarming party. However, their guests seem more interested in whispering in the box room than joining the festivities.  Infidelities, secrets and an uninvited guest mean that Ru & Luke will have to clean […]

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At Home with our Volunteers

Over the last month Near FM has been working steadily with its staff and volunteers to keep our service on air during the current restrictions. Some of our programmes are now being produced by volunteers from their homes with scheduling and broadcasting support from our outstanding technical staff. We recently visited (virtually) with three volunteers who showed us their home set ups.  First was Declan Ralph. Declan normally presents the Week in Review and NearBy Business both of which are on […]

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WoodQuay Summer Sessions 2020

Near FM present the WoodQuay Summer Sessions, a series of radio programmes featuring a diverse range of Irish artists performing as partof the Wood Quay Summer Sessions concert series in July 2020. Programme 1 – Thursday July 9th at 6pm. We present the music of Jazz improvisers BigSpoon. We’ll hear from Chris and Matthew from BigSpoon as well as Kenneth Killeen from the Improvised Music Company and Tom Doyle from Dublin City Council. Programme 2 – Thursday July 16th at […]

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