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Outside With Near

Near FM will broadcast LIVE from The Rose Festival July 19th 2014 12.30-3.30 pm Noel Mc Guinness and Leslie Murphy will present the 3 hour special, as part of OUTSIDE WITH NEAR, live from St Annes, with interviews from many of the…

Europe on Air Programme 19 “WW1 and the Irish Situation”

Programme 19 of the series aired on Thursday 10th July 2014 at 4.30pm and looked at WW1 and the Irish Situation. The guests were Cathal Brennan and Padraig Yeates, journalist and author, whose books include “A City in Wartime: Dublin 1914-1918”

Europe on Air Programme 17

The programme looked at allotments, community gardens and growing your own food. Special guests were Kathy Marsh, founding member of Sonairte, the National Ecology Centre, Robert Moss, secretary of Dublin Community Growers and Marion Kelly who is the first female chairperson of Dublin…

Telling our own Story

” Near FM presents a four part radio series celebrating 30 years of community media on the Northside of Dublin “Since community radio emerged as a separate strand it has added to the plurality of voices that are on air it has…

BackTracking Nanu Nanu & Unit 1 Studios Feature

This Thursday evening, the 19th June, from 18.00 – 20.00 we will be broadcasting a two hour BackTracking feature delving into the “Alien Pop” duo of Nanu Nanu and the work currently begin explored at Unit 1 Studios in Rathgar. “Following…

Europe on Air Programme 15

This series was aired at 4.30pm on Thursday 12th June 2014. Titled “What is Irish Culture” and looked at aspects of Irish culture that make it uniquely Irish. Special guests were Katie Lowry of Creative Europe Desk Ireland,Mark O’Brien, Acting Director,axis: Ballymun…

Art Spaces

Art Spaces – a new six part radio series that explores six unique art spaces in the North of Dublin. Monday the 16th of June – Monday July 21st at 6.30pm on Near FM Art Spaces is a new six part radio series produced…

James Joyce on Near FM

With Blooms day fast approaching we thought it would be a good time to highlight some of the James Joyce adaptions that Near FM has done and are all available to listen to online. Ivy Day In The Committee Room In a…

Frank Harte – A Life In Song and The Week In Review win big at CRAOL

NearFm has won two awards at the CRAOL Achievement Awards 2014 for Frank Harte – A Life In Song won under the category commissioned 2 and one of the judges had this to say “This excellent programme demonstrated really strong Community awareness. Top quality”. The…

Europe on Air takes on Gender Equality

Programme 11 of the series aired on May 15th 2014 and looked at gender equality. Special guests were Debbie Hutchinson, Producer of “The Feminist Heart” radio series on the history of feminism in Ireland, Niall Hanlon, Lecturer in Gender Studies and author…