Podcast-Feed"AR MUIN NA MUICE"- Near90fm 06 Meán Fómhair 2011
Labhair Darren Mac an Phríora le Muiris Ó Fiannachta bainsteoir Raidió na Life.
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ABSOLUT Fringe 2011 - Bairbre Ni Chaoimh seeks to Hand Me down the Moon.
“An immersive theatrical adventure inspired by two women’s enduring childhood fascination with space and lunar exploration”, but such mundane words barely touch the surface of the aspirations of the creators of Hand Me down the Moon.
Joining Michael FitzGerald on Northside2Day, Bairbre Ní Chaoimh actor, director and playwright outlines how this collaboration with visual artist Aideen Barry and Fringe award winner Louise Lowe, to bring audiences on a journey to rediscover the magic of childhood.
Set in a suitably atmospheric Georgian terrace in Temple Bar, the dynamic narrative, spread over three levels includes animation, music, actors and of course the moon. Because of the restricted access of the venue, Bairbre advises audiences it would be wisest to book, in advance as there is an upper limit of 60 who can see the show on any single night, and will be pleased if they can recapture even a smidgen of the sense of awe and wonder we took so much for granted as children.
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Frank Kelly - a North Strander revisits he 'hood.
After almost 50 years living in Canada native Northsider Frank Kelly returns to his home turf where he drops in on Mick FitzGerald to guest on, appropriately enough, Northside2Night.
As befits two experienced members of the Irish Diaspora, Frank and Mick embark on a whirlwind reminisce of growing up Northside. Frank guides us on a tour of local landmarks, some familiar, others long since disappeared. but taking in corporal punishment at Canice’s, studying at Bolton Street, navigating the “badlands” of Summerhill, before guiding Cadbury’s safely from the North Wall to Coolock.
Frank candidly shares with listeners the reasons behind his leaving Ireland and the positives the flowed from that, particularly meeting his beautiful wife and life partner Phyllis. Despite the passing years, Frank shows he has lost neither his Dublin values, sensibilities or even his accent. He agrees his life would have been different had he remained in Dublin, but acknowledges that the Canadian goldmine he was luck to discover – is friends and family, which will be a lasting tribute to a humble Northsider. Frank Kelly is simply one of nature’s gentlemen.
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The Right2Work and the Dignity of Labour.
John Lyons of Peopleb4Profit joined Michael FitzGerald on Northside2Day to bring listeners up-to-speed on The Right to Work campaign. John unreservedly condemns the policies of successive Governments which are seeking to place the burden of responsibility for gross economic mismanagement on the shoulders of working men and women.
When Michael offers the analogy of the Titanic with the Irish economy, with class and gender being the determining factors whether one was either rescued or perished, John was quick to see the comparisons.
John is particularly critical of Ministers who descried the unwaged as exercising a “life-style” choice by claiming social welfare payments, as being too cynical for words. He offers many examples of how and where the state is abandoning its obligations to its citizens, and by default leaving them vulnerable to the ravages of laissez-faire economics.
John calls on all workers and the unwaged to convey the feelings to their public representatives, in a massive protest when An Dáil resumes on 14.September/2011.
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Jim Roche of Irish AntiWar Movement (IAWM) discusses NATO interventiom in Libya
While welcoming the demise of the repressive Gadaffi regime, Jim Roche of the Irish AntiWar Movement cautions against any premature celebrations for its imminent replacement with a democratic alternative. Jim joins Michael FitzGerald on Global Solidarity where the morality of the NATO intervention is subject to the type of critical analysis often missing in mainstream media reports.
While being slow to draw comparisons with the overthrow of the Baath regime in Iraq, they nonetheless identify large oil reserves as providing a certain commonality of incentive. They also illustrate that replacing an democratic secular Arab regime has often been replaced by an Islamic one that was less that gracious to its liberators, as happened previously in Iran.
Sounding a note of general alarm, Jim observes that the post 911 justifications for such interventions are often proving unsustainable at best, and destructively counter-productive at worst.
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