Near FM will be broadcasting live from 11.30am-1.30pm this Easter Saturday Shanowen Road home of St Kevin’s Boys Club will be the venue next weekend for the SKB Academy Cup Tournament from the 18th – 20th April. This will be our 6th year to organize this event which was inaugurated in 2009 as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations. It has in that short space of time become one of the elite European tournaments for boys at Under 13 level. […]
NearFM looking at the rights and benefits of European Citizenship Part six of the series aired on April 10th 2014 and looked at the meaning of European Citizenship with particular emphasis on the rights and benefits that accompany a European citizen and how being an Irish citizen in Ireland compares to other citizens of the various nations within the EU.
Near Media Co-Op in partnership with CAPTCHA EU Culture Initiative and with the support of the Dublin Community Forum present a half day seminar to discuss “What is Worth Archiving?” and look at approaches to archiving. This event will be particularly relevant to community media staff & volunteers, media professionals, academics, students and community & minority groups underrepresented in mainstream archiving. The half day will consist of a seminar/Q&A and workshops relating to archiving and digitalisation. (As space is limited […]
Coming soon to Near FM a 6 x 30 minute show about experimental music in Ireland, entitled ‘Mad Scientists of Music’. It will be covering everything from bedroom tinkering with Fruity Loops to technically and aesthetically sophisticated electronic ‘noise’ to Harry Partch style microtonal music. It’s produced by Gareth Stack and for more information you can read the production updates he’s been writing on his blog.
This four part series tells the story of Muslims living in Ireland and demonstrates in a positive light how they embrace and contribute to Irish society. The series aims to improve understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims in Ireland and assist societal harmony. A general overview of Islam is given and the series also looks at the Irish connection to Islam through those Irish who have converted to the religion, the involvement of Irish Muslims in the Arab Spring, the Irish […]
Part five of the series aired on April 3rd 2014 and looked at the rights of LGBT citizens with regard to marriage and family rights as well as transgender rights and how the situation in Ireland compares to other EU nations. Special guests include Elaine King, television coordinator, NEAR TV, Deirdre O’Byrne, presenter of Pride Time on Near FM plus Max Krzyzanowski, spokesperson for LGBT Noise.
NEARfm looking at the System of Education shedding more light on secondary schools and adult education in Ireland in comparison to their European counterparts. Special guests include Siobhan O’Connell, Principal of St. Mary’s Secondary School, Baldoyle and Niamh Farren, Communications Officer of Aontas, The Irish National Adult Learning Organisation.
Nearfm looking at”The Changing Face of Religion” Special guests include Dr. Damian Jackson, member of the congregation of Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church and of the Dublin City Interfaith Forum, Dr. Melanie Brown of the Dublin Jewish Community and Shayk Umar Al-Qadri of the Almustafa Islamic Centre, Blanchardstown
Series ‘Europe on Air’, Programme 1: Commercial & Community Media in Ireland and the EU. Ciarán Murray, Near media coop coordinator speaking to Frank Connolly Journalist / SIPTU, William Hederman freelance journalist and editor at The Irish Times (missing in picture) and Sally Galina Nearfm coordinator and president of AMARC Europe (World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters) Europe on Air is on every Thursday from 4.30-5pm You can listen to the first programme here.
Feminist Heart is a 4 part series which deals with Ireland’s contemporary history from a women’s perspective with a particular focus on woman’s voices from our own area, the Northside of Dublin. Broadcasting Saturday March 8th (International Womens Day), 15th, 22nd and 29th at 3pm. It will look at events that were not only historical and social milestones, but which also made a difference in the way women were perceived in society. The show will do this through interviews with some of […]
CRAOL Media Literacy Conference What: Media Literacy Conference When: Saturday March 29th Time: 9.30 to 1.30 Where: 36 Teachers Club, Room No 4, 1st Floor, Parnell Square, Dublin 1 Agenda 9.15 Registration 9.45-9.55 Welcome from Mary Lennon, CRAOL Chair. Video address from Androulla Vassiliou, EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth. Address by Conference Chair: Irena Cvetkovic. Athlone Community Radio. 9.55-10.40 Keynote Speech: ‘Do the Media influence our Political Views?’ Vincent Browne ( Journalist) , Harry Browne (Journalist and lecturer in the […]
The Butterfly Effect – Friday 21st Feb @ 6pm on Near FM In August 2013, through the support of the Simon Cumbers Media Fund, Joseph O’Connor and Paul Loughran travelled to Tanzania to discover how one butterfly farming project is educating local communities on the importance of protecting the environment whilst giving women a stronger voice in their villages. The Amani Butterfly Project is a non-profit organisation, established in 2004, that helps four hundred rural Tanzanians from six villages in […]
DCTV have produced a film that will appear in the Jameson Film Festival. Showing at the Light House Cinema, Sat 22nd Feb 2014 12:30PM The Inquiry is a docu-drama that brings to life the dramatic events of that 1913 encounter, when the two most notorious figures in Irish public life hurled accusations at one another in front of the international press. Turlough Kellys script draws on British Parliamentary reports and contemporary newspapers to provide a gripping account of events, going […]
To The End Of The Earth is a new 5 part 30 minute Radio Documentary series, starting on Feb 10th 2014. The Series focuses on the Irish Military Diaspora in South America and features the incredible lives of: Ambrose O’Higgins John MacKenna Bernardo O’Higgins Admiral William Brown Ernesto “CHE” Guevara Lynch Produced by Enda M Roche It will broadcast weekly from Monday February 10th 2014 at 6.30 pm ( Irish Time ) on Near FM 90.3 Or online at www.nearfm.ie/online […]
Students from Larkin Community college visiting NearFM for a workshop on how to use the studio and desk for recording interviews. Their teacher Miss Fallon attended the Networds Training, a Leonardo da Vinci funded pan European partnership which offers training on how to use community radio skills in the classroom. You can find more information on the project here: http://radionetwords.eu/
Reinterpreting 1913 is a Sound and Vision funded radio series which explores the artistic influence of the 1913 Lockout in Ireland. It begins Friday 24th of January at 6pm and runs for 3 weeks (January 24th, 31st and February 7th) on Near FM. The series looks at the influence that the industrial dispute had on several different artistic disciplines from Literature and Song to Poetry, Drama and History. It explores both well known texts such as James Plunketts “Strumpet City” […]
Ireland has over 1400 km of coastline and 220 million acres of seabed, some of it as deep as 5km. Our seas have weathered our coastlines and shaped our climate. In the distant past the freezing of these oceans created the icecaps that sculpted our land. And when the ice melted, rising seas turned our fragment of north Atlantic rock into an island. Our oceans brought the first settlers to Ireland but later carried millions away. Despite living on this […]
” Sa Phictiúr: Seán, Aoife agus Úna. Ag seoladh Pobal Chluain Tarbh sa Tillies Caife ar an gCéadaoin 15ú Eanáir. Tá Pobal Chluain Tarbh an sraith ghearr faoin cainteoirí Gaeilge sa cheantar Chluain Tarbh. Pictured: Seán, Aoife and Úna At the Launch of Pobal Chluain Tarbh in Tillies Cafe on Wednesday January 15th. Pobal Chluain Tarbh is a short series about Irish speakers in the Clontarf area. Faigh tuilleadh eolais http://nearfm.ie/pobal-chluain-tarbh/ Find more information http://nearfm.ie/pobal-chluain-tarbh/
Craolacháin Déardaoin Ean 16ú & 23ú @ 5.30pm Tá Pobal Chluain Tarbh, pobal deonach Gaeilge, ar an saol ón mbliain 1972 agus é mar aidhm aige“Pobal a thógáil le Gaeilge”. Reachtáileadh iliomad imeachtaí le dha scór bliain anuas dírithe ar idir óg agus aosta.Ón mbliain 1980 i leith reachtáiltear Éigse Chluain Tarbh –féile pobail seachtaine- ina mbíonn eagrais eile pobail páirteach. Tá nasc dlúth ag Pobal Chluain Tarbh lenár gcomheagras Gaeilge – “Briathar Beo”-atá ag reachtáil ranganna Gaeilge seachtainiúla le […]
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