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Sound & Vision this August

This August Near FM will be re-playing your favourite documentaries which were produced with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Sound & Vision Scheme. For a full run down of the dates and times of broadcast please check the table below [table id=1 /]

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Europe on Air Programme 20 “Europe after WW2”

View post on imgur.com   Programme 20, the final programme in the Europe on Air series, took place on Thursday 17th July 2014 and looked at Europe after the Second World War. The guests were John Dorney, historian, author and co-presenter of NEARfm’s Irish History Show, Peter Cunningham, Treasurer of[Read More…]

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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 exhibitors on the day. Pop down and say[Read More…]

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Europe on Air Programme 18 “Biodiversity”

Biodiversity can be described as the variety of life on Earth within and between all species of plants, animals and micro-organisms and the ecosystems within which they live and interact. .  The guests were Níamh Ní Cholmáin, Biodiversity Facilitator, Dublin City Council, Hans Visser, Biodiversity Officer, Fingal County Council and[Read More…]

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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 Community Growers and also campaigning for Dublin’s first[Read More…]

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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 also provided significant opportunity for people to develop[Read More…]

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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 the last three years of over 180 gigs[Read More…]

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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 and Jim Carroll, Irish Times music journalist, blogger[Read More…]

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Lassane Ouedraogo, Chairperson of the African Solidarity Centre joins Mary Oyediran to discuss the latest developments in the African Diaspora Ireland and African Continent in December 2025. [...]

Near FM presents episode 38 in The Hugh Lane Concert series with Dragonfly, Danusha Waskiewicz on viola and Naomi Berrill on cello, who create a richly layered soundscape, where each [...]

Br. Gordon Celender is a Catholic missionary Music Minister and International Marathon Runner, joins Mary Oyediran to talk about Christmas, raising funds for charities and live music . 1st Broadcast [...]