As per Section 5 of our rules, Comhar Chumann Cumarsaide Pobal BAC Thoir Thuaidh Teo/Dublin North East Community Communications Co-operative Society Ltd trading as Near Media Co-op is introducing an annual administration fee for all shareholding members. If you are a shareholder and wish to continue to be involved with the co-op please contact reception@near.ie by July 5th.
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Are you a woman, interested in presenting on the airways? Have you ever listened to the radio and thought: ‘Why does no-one talk about….? Why are there not more women on air?’ Why does no-one ever play… Maybe I could do that’ Then this is the place for you! Learn the skills to become a community media broadcaster on Near FM and host your own radio programme. No experience necessary. To register email dorothee@near.ie Please Note: This course is now […]
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Near FM has won the Celtic Media award for Radio Drama in 2020. Beating off competition the BBC, Near FM won the award as part of their work encouraging new audio drama from women writers. The Celtic Media Festival is an annual event that promotes film, TV and radio content among Celtic Nations and Regions. Near FM won Best Radio Drama for Petal’s written by Gillian Greer with script consultancy by Lisa Tierney-Keogh. Petal’s, which was also directed by Jeda […]
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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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As part of the Erasmus+ European project Media Education Without Borders made up with partners in Germany, Spain and Hungary, Near Media Co-op developed an online training course for teachers/trainers who work with young adults from the age of 15years + on the topic of media literacy/media studies. This self directed online course consists of 6 units allowing you to go through the full course or to choose particular modules with the topics you are most interested in: Media Studies […]
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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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