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Pride Time

Welcome to Pride Time at NearFM, Ireland’s radio show dedicated to the LGBT community. Pride Time @ NearFM’s Cloudcasts on Mixcloud

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Relive the magic of the Theatre Royal!

Earlier this year three volunteers met at the induction training to community media from nearfm. Having realised they all share the same passion for the Theatre Royal they formed a production team to highlight some memories and stories of the performers who have appeared on this famous stage, family and[Read More…]

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Grundtvig Learning Partnership GR2010-2C

Grundtvig Learning Partnership GR2010-2C Knowledge Sharing for Ameliorating Community Radio Educational Programming (2010-2012) This is a project funded nationally by Léargas as part of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission Education and Culture DG.  The project was coordinated by nearfm and the partners were Radio Vallekas (Madrid, Spain),[Read More…]

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The Brennan Mob

The Brennan Mob is a six part comedy half-hour comedy drama set in Dublin. When the father of the family is arrested for pretending to shoot a young Garda with his finger after being stopped while driving in a bus lane, all manner of complications arise. His celebrity model daughter[Read More…]

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Dante's Domain

What will the future hold for Humanity? Dante’s Domain – Three part apocolyptic Radio Drama Series from the pen of Jack Byrne and performed by the near drama company. This series is funded by the BAI Sound and Vision Scheme. This series was also part of near90fm’s Green Year initiative.

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Helping Hands

Helping Hands is a 6 part series of programmes which explores a diverse blend of personal stories from immigrants living in Dublin who offer a helping hand to other newcomers to Ireland as they try to settle in their new communities.

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Tales from the Northside

‘The Reading’ by Helen McNamara. This play examines the position of a so-called ‘common law wife’ when it comes to wills and the law. This radio play examines the plight of such a woman and how she can be cast aside despite caring for a man whom she loved and[Read More…]

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Listen Again

The History Show Episode Seven Episode 7 of the History Show on Near FM presented by Cathal Brennan and John Dorney. On this episode, we discuss Fascism and Anti – Fascism in Ireland, in particular the Blueshirts and Fine Gael. We were joined by Dr. Fearghal McGarry of Queen’s University[Read More…]

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Scibernia

A fortnightly science programme and podcast that is broadcast on Near fm 90.3. Scibernia has it’s own website at www.scibernia.ie where you can listen to all the past programmes.

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Dublin's Northside City of Literature

Dublin’s Northside City of Literature is a five part radio series that highlights and celebrates north Dublin’s contribution to UNESCO’s endorsement of Dublin as one of five World Cities of Literature. These programmes feature interviews with local authors from the north side of the city discussing their life and work.[Read More…]

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Theresa O’Farrell is joined by writer Jackie Lynam, who shares her favourite music and tells the stories of how her musical choices have shaped her life.  Jackie also reads from [...]

    Helen Lahert and Five members of Howth Singing Circle joins Mary Oyediran to perform some of their songs in the studio. 1st Broadcast 18th April 2025 http://www.howthsingingcircle.org https://www.facebook.com/share/1AWqA [...]

  Brian Millar is the Current Acting Chairperson/ Treasurer of Irish Christian Writers Fellowship (ICWF) Teacher, Playwright Worship Dancer and Minister joins Mary Oyediran to reflect on the meaning of [...]

  Ebun Joseph, the Special Rapporteur for the National Action Plan Against Racism, Founder and  Director of the Institute of Antiracism and Black Studies, Author, Social Justice Advocate and the [...]

Lassane Ouedraogo  University of Sanctuary Support Officer, Trinity College Dublin, The College of Dublin The newly elected Chairperson of African Solidarity Centre joins Mary Oyediran to discuss the latest on [...]

Dennis McIntyre speaks about the Easter Rising and recites poetry that is linked to the Rising. [...]