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…]
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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…]
Near FM nominated for Prix Europa 2020
Near FM have been nominated for an international award for their recordings and subsequent broadcasting of the Sundays at Noon concert series. The northside Dublin radio station have been nominated for Best Radio Music series in the Prix Europa competition alongside music programmes from radio stations such as BBC Radio[Read More…]
The Art of Collaboration
Broadcasting Tuesday 6th October 2020 at 2pm The fourth 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[Read More…]
The Art of Collaboration
Broadcasting Tuesday 6th October 2020 at 2pm The fourth 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[Read More…]
Audio Drama – Allie Down the Boghole
Near FM presents another in our New Drama Hour series, audio dramas exclusively by women writers. “Allie Down the Boghole” by Megan McDonnell. Airing August 25th at 6pm. The story follows Allie, a young girl in rural Ireland who is something of a latch-key child. She is, more often than not, left[Read More…]
