50 Years a Growing

50 Years A Growing, a radio documentary will broadcast on Near FM on ­­­­­­­­­­­­­Wed Nov 25th at 2.30pm. Coláiste Dhúlaigh, Post Primary School in Coolock, is 50 years old and we’re celebrating! In Sept 1966 the then Minister for Education Donogh O’Mally, announced his plans for Free universal secondary education. This directive heralded in a new dawn for education and paved the way for schools like Colaiste Dhulaigh, a new post primary school in Coolock to open its doors for the […]

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Celebrating 25 Years of Near FM

Near FM’s origins goes back to the pirate radios from the 1980s and credit unions and food co-ops from the 1970s, and even the dizzy awakening of freedom and civil rights of the1960s. Back to when local people decided that the north side of the City, with its undeserved negative reputation propagated by the media, needed its own radio service to tell its own stories, positive stories. In a little corner office upstairs in the Coolock Development Centre, the offices […]

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Near FM Podcast Series ‘Hiberno Goethe: German Irish Conversations’

This Podcast dives into the many colours of arts, language and life across cultures. St. Pauli fan and former Düsseldorfer Ciarán Murray and his guests explore the connecting moments of German and Irish life. What do musicians, dancers, artists, writers pick up from either culture? How are they inspired and enriched by the other? For all listeners who like to go and think beyond borders. Episode 2: Deike Potzel, German Ambassador to Ireland This month Ciarán is talking with the […]

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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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DUO CHAGALL and the FINGAL ENSEMBLE perform BEETHOVEN

Broadcasting Tuesdays November 10th, 17th and 24th at 2pm This November Near FM are delighted to present three special concerts by DUO CHAGALL and the FINGAL ENSEMBLE commemorating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. Violinist Gillian Williams and her French husband, cellist Arun Rao, have enlisted a selection of the finest musicians working in Ireland to perform some of Beethoven’s greatest works, all recorded at Baldoyle Community Hall. Tune in to Near FM on November 10th, 17th and 24th at […]

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Cora Venus Lunny & Izumi Kimura

Broadcasting Tuesday 3rd November 2020 at 2pm The fifth programme in the third series of Hugh Lane Concerts was recorded in Dublin’s Hugh Lane gallery, as part of the Playing to the Gallery series, a continuation of the Sundays at Noon series, during the great pandemic Lock Down in June 2020. Near FM present Cora Venus Lunny and Izumi Kimura playing a fully improvised music concert, on piano, violin and viola. About the seriesThe Hugh Lane Concert series showcases contemporary, traditional, classical and jazz […]

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