Good morning, so we are getting a few questions about who we are and what we are going to be doing. More than happy to answer any questions. We are a lobby group made up of 14 different depts (so far) ranging from Sexual Violence, Domestic Violence and Family Law
Haha. Just realised that Gogul is the same voice actor as Andre the Blacksmith from Dark Souls.
Just got some classic 90s anime on Blu-ray. Comes with the amazing new soundtrack that was produced for the English dub.
Look at the raw, reckless abandon with which Christopher Lee puts logs on the fire, here. Unreal.
Running the Romulan Star Empire in a game of Star Trek Ascendancy at Alfie Byrne’s. I do miss board games a lot and the pub is now gone for good too.
A new audio drama that I produced airs next week.
Shopping for Beginners by Maurice Newman is a new 2 part audio drama that takes place in a shopping centre in north County Dublin as two older men from drastically different backgrounds strike up an unlikely friendship.
It broadcasts at 6.30pm on February 2nd and 9th on Near FM 90.3 and will be available here and on the podcast shortly afterward.
Made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the television licence fee.
We just released the 4th episode of the Board Games Ireland podcast which is a spin off from the meet up group I set up 4 years ago. We just hit 2500 members in the group.
We experimented with recording a play through of game in the latest episode. You can hear all 4 episodes in the below play list:
This is a new website I’ve been working on for the past year or so in Near FM. And we launched it just last night.
Near Archive is a digital audio database of interviews, which were originally broadcast on Near FM’sflagship community affairs programme Northside Today between the years 2011 and 2016.
The content reflects upon the themes of Irish Culture, Life and Experience with a particular emphasis on local arts and culture, local news, history, heritage and community events. There are currently over 1000 interviews in the database.
Near Archive has been assembled with the input of expert partners including the Digital Repository of Ireland and Dublin City Council Library and Archive. In addition a cross-sectoral approach to archiving has been established through CRAOL, the national body for community radio.
Near Archive can be accessed by visiting www.archive.ie where content can be streamed or downloaded and runs on a Creative Commons license.
Partners and Funders
Near FM www.near.ie
CRAOL (Community Radio Ireland) www.craol.ie
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland www.bai.ie
Digital Repository of Ireland www.dri.ie
Dublin City Library & Archive www.dublincity.ie
CDETB www.cityofdublin.etb.ie
INTREO www.welfare.ie/intreo
Episodes 5 and 6 of audio drama Rivitn’ History have now been broadcast and are available for download.
You can catch up on the first 4 episodes here:
Next up is a new comedy series called ‘Shopping for Beginners’. We just finished recorded it and I currently have it in post production.
Had a go at recording a podcast about board gaming for my Board Games Ireland meet up group.
In the first of hopefully many podcasts we discussed the following:
