Podcast-Feed"Ar Muin na Muice"- 27ú Lúnasa 2010
Labhair Darren Mac an Phríora le Frank Feighan TD (Fine Gael) mar gheall ar an smaoineamh atá aige faoi Oileán Chliara agus le Maedbh Ní Dhomhnaill ó Ógras.
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Planning Our Retreat from Fossil Fuels: Exploring the Ramifications of Peak Oil
The 15th Convergence Festival 28th may-1st june featured talks, conferences, workshops and world café discussions on how urban and rural communities can adapt and thrive in these uncertain times. Each year, this festival brings together people from a wide variety of sectors to strategise on how we develop the resilience of our communities
John Gibbons leads a discussion with Minister Eamon Ryan, David Korowicz from FEASTA (The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability) and ASPO Ireland Director, Richard O’Rourke, on the ramifications of Peak Oil and what we can and should be doing to prepare for it.
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Cover to Cover 13 may 2010
On the show there was Guest presenter Pat Lynch speaking with Fergus Carroll to Declan Lynch about his book Days of Heaven. Pat also spoke to Claudia Carroll on the night about her recently published book called “Personally I blame my Fairy Godmother”.
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Cover to Cover 27th May 2010
Transition year student of Larkin College had the launch of their newly published book called “Fighting Tuesdays” this week. We also speak to Sinead Connolly from the Dublin Writers Festival about the up and coming festival. And Bernice Paolozzi speaks to author Paddy McMahon about his recently published book “There are No Goodbyes”.
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A Space for Learning
In this follow up interview, Ronnie O’Brien speaks with Rachel McAree, Education Curator of the Irish Architecture Foundation, about the selection of the ten finalists in the competition “A Space for Learning”.
The panel of judges consisted of Rachel, herself, Emmet Scanlon (Architecture Advisior to the Arts Council) and Helen O’Donoghue (Senior Curator and Head of the Education and Community Programmes IMMA). According to Rachel, the panel found the standard of desings submitted “really impressive”.
What impressed us here at near90fm was that, of the four Dublin schools selected, two are from the northside of the city. So, congratulations to the girls at Mercy College, Coolock and also to the boys in St. Paul’s College, Raheny.
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