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  If Ever You Go: A Northside Dublin Perspective

  February 24, 2015 at 12:03 pm / Arts, Latest, Programmes, Special Interest

      Nearfm have produced a ten part radio series reinterpreting the Dublin: One City One Book ‘If Ever You Go: a Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song’ edited by Pat Boran and Gerard Smyth.This series takes a unique look at the book from a northside Dublin perspective by focusing on the poems, poets and songs associated with Northside Dublin. The series features many well known poets reciting and being interviewed about the poems they have featured in the […]

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  New Perspectives on Irish History

  February 16, 2015 at 2:34 pm / Documentaries, Latest, Programmes, Special Interest

  Broadcasting Friday Feb 20th @ 6.30pm for 8 weeks. New Perspectives on Irish History is a brand new 8 part radio series devised by John Haughton, which takes a unique look at how our ancestors viewed their natural environment and how different periods of history co-existed with the natural environment of our island. In this instance this series relates to the themes of Irish History, heritage, experience and the natural environment and will raise public awareness to a unique historical […]

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• New year wishes

  January 12, 2015 at 12:09 pm / Networking

  Wish you all a very happy new year from all of us at the UNESCO Chair on Community Media, University of Hyderabad! Nearfm wishes you a very happy New year too   http://uccommedia.in/news/tag/unesco-chair-on-community-media/

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• The Album show

  January 12, 2015 at 11:44 am / Latest

  See  the diverse mix for 19 years Albums of 2014 

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• Minority and Migrant language audiences, approaches and policies, nearfm Dublin, and Antxeta Irratia, Basque Country,

  January 12, 2015 at 11:00 am / Latest

  This research was carried out by Alekzandra Zák and Inaki Irigoien with the CMFE (Community Media Forum of Europe) as partner in the Council of Europe’s Project   Language Policies For Diverse Audiences

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  Language Jewels

  January 8, 2015 at 12:47 pm / Documentaries, General, Latest, Programmes, Special Interest

  Tuesday Jan 13th, 20th and 27th at 3pm “I’ve listened to the first Language Jewel and I’m not going to wait until this time next week to listen to the next one! It’s a really interesting documentary and you’ve arranged the interviews in a seamless manner.”- Dr Deirdre Kirwan, Principal , Scoil Bhríde Cailíní Language Jewels is a three part series which follows the experience of Scoil Bhríde Cailíní, a primary school based in Blanchardstown that has passed in a […]

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  CAPTCHA EU Culture Initiative

  December 23, 2014 at 10:32 am / Networking

  What is CAPTCHA? In November 2013, community radio activists from Austria, Germany and Ireland met with academics from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, to launch a project about how community media can best use and develop online archives. The necessity of sustainable archiving has been a subject of discussion for the civil media community for a few years now, and the project, called “CAPTCHA – Creative approaches to living cultural archives,” aims to provide new insights on how to […]

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  “Liam Brady to feature on Near FM football series” – Radio Today 27/11/2014

  December 5, 2014 at 12:37 pm / Mentions in the Media

    Irish soccer legend Liam Brady is to feature in a local football history series on Dublin community station Near FM. Brady – who was once assistant manager of the Republic of Ireland football team, during Giovanni Trapattoni’s reign as manager, and who is a frequent contributor to RTÉ Televisions football coverage – hails Whitehall in Dublin. In the Near FM programme, he tells the story of the beginning of his football career with St.Kevins Boys. St.Kevins feature along with Raheny United […]

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  “Hats off to Near FM for their tilt at the EU monster” – Irish Independent 19/04/2014

  December 4, 2014 at 11:43 am / Mentions in the Media

  In a column like this, you tend to fixate on the big stations – understandably, I suppose, as those are nationwide, have the broadest reach and the deepest impact on the radio landscape. Still, it’s nice to focus on smaller stations from time to time, so hats off this week to Near FM. A community station based in North Dublin, it makes a very refreshing change from the usual local radio, which is mostly computer-programmed pop music with little content […]

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  An Irish Sanctuary

  November 28, 2014 at 12:30 pm / Documentaries, Latest, Programmes

   An Irish Sanctuary: The History and Natural History of the North Bull Island is a 3-part series which looks at the fascinating history and natural history of the North Bull Island, home to over 1100 species of organisms including plants, insects, birds and mammals. In winter the island holds more than 35,000 wildfowl including internationally significant numbers of the iconic Brent Goose. It also plays host to thousands of human visitors each year who come to take in the rugged […]

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