Tune into your local community radio station on Friday June 16th from 11.00am-5.30pm National Community Radio Day celebrating Traveller community! With a mix of live guests and pre-recorded interviews by Near FM and our sister community radio stations Flirt FM, Liffey Sound, Phoenix FM, Athlone Community Radio, Loughrea Community Radio and[Read More…]
Outside Broadcasts
Billy O’Brien in concert
Broadcasting on Near FM on Tuesday March 7th at 2pm. Recorded as part of the Sundays at Noon Concert series, on Nov 20th 2022, Billy O’Brien (piano) performs a concert of Alexander Skriabin – 24 Preludes op. 11 and Olivier Messiaen – Premiere Communion de la Vierge from Vingt Regards sur l’enfant Jesu.[Read More…]
Mendelssohn re-imagined
Podcast now available at https://nearfm.ie/podcast/the-hugh-lane-concert-series-the-fews-ensemble/ This 90 minute programme features an exhilarating performance by Newry Chamber Music group, The Fews Ensemble, as they reimagine Mendelssohn by performing the original Octet in E-flat major in it’s entirety for the first time in Ireland. The original octet was written when Mendelssohn was[Read More…]
Elizabeth Hilliard in concert
Broadcasting Tuesday Nov 1st at 2pm As part of the Hugh Lane Gallery’s Sundays at Noon series and in association with the Contemporary Music Centre, Elizabeth Hilliard presents this recital of works written for her voice by three distinguished composers. The opening work is a world premiere: Sleepsong by Siobhán[Read More…]
Creative Brain Week – Forget-Me-Nots choir
Broadcasting Friday April 8th at 12pm Creative Brain Week is an initiative of the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) where world experts from backgrounds in brain science and creativity gather to seed new ideas in social development, technology, entrepreneurship, culture, wellbeing, and physical, mental and brain health across the life[Read More…]
The Road Less Travelled
To attend the first online event Book here The Road Less Travelled is a new series from the Trinity Long Room Hub and Near FM featuring current and past students from Trinity College Dublin who have taken the road less travelled to education. We meet men and women from all[Read More…]
Get the Message Out
Broadcasting Thursday Sept 30th at 2pm Listen to inspirational speakers share their stories on how they have turned their life around and chose a different path following addiction and violence. Get the message Out – There Is Another Way is a group of community organisations that have a youth /[Read More…]
CLM`s new Guides to taking Employment Equality and Equal Status Cases
Broadcasts Tuesday May 18th at 2pm Near FM present a special panel discussion recorded in partnership with the Community Law & Mediation Centre. The Community Law & Mediation Centre have created new guides to taking Employment Equality and Equal Status cases. The guides have been funded under the Irish Human[Read More…]
Revisiting the Fourth Estate: does the media still serve democracy?
Revisiting the Fourth Estate: does the media still serve democracy? – A Radio Panel Discussion, broadcasting Tuesday May 4th at 2pm This panel discussion explores whether, in a changing media landscape and deepening global democratic recession, the ideal of the fourth estate is still desirable and attainable. Long-term challenges around objectivity, regulation and censorship have been[Read More…]
The Contempo Quartet – Beethoven Reflected
Broadcasting Tuesday March 10th at 2pm This special concert programmed by Linda Buckley and performed by The Contempo Quartet, celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven and traces threads of connection from the work of Beethoven through New York’s Julia Wolfe and Cork composer sisters Irene[Read More…]
