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…]
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Near FM delighted to partner in EU project
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[Read More…]
Xenia Pestova and Ed Bennett
The sixth and final programme in the current series, broadcasting Tuesday February 2nd at 2pm, features Xenia Pestova and Ed Bennett playing a programme of piano and electronic arrangements by Leo Chadburn, Annea Lockwood, Ed Bennett, Gayle Young and Alvin Lucier. Broadcasting Tuesday February 2nd at 2pm This radio programme features[Read More…]
Christmas in Fingal
Broadcasting Wednesday December 30th from 11-1pm Near FM are delighted to broadcast a special Christmas programme this Wed Dec 30th at 11am along with partners in LMFM and Phoenix FM. Brought to you by Fingal County Council and LMFM Radio the programme is aimed at older people living in Fingal[Read More…]
COVID-19 effects on European wide initiatives
Broadcasting Wednesday Dec 23rd at 10am In this programme Sally Galiana talks to three experts about the impact Covid-19 has had/is having on the many EU partnership projects that take place across the EU every year, particularly Erasmus +. We examine how Irish projects have been affected and look at[Read More…]
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[Read More…]
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[Read More…]
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[Read More…]
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[Read More…]
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[Read More…]
