I attended an event today to mark World Press Freedom day, as a result of which I’m posing the audio below. The first speech is by Kevin Bakhurst, RTÉ Deputy Director-General and Managing Director of News & Current Affairs, on the particular challenges facing broadcasting. It is followed by a speech by John Horgan, Press… Continue reading When are bloggers media?
Category: Sound
Radio, podcast, and other earfuls
“A teacher and columnist…”
“Breda O’Brien is a teacher and a columnist with the Irish Times”, according to the clip below. But unlike Joan Collins and Ciara Conway, her political affiliation is not mentioned during this introduction, on a Late Debate programme to discuss the death of Savita Halappanavar, and the abortion debate it sparked. Breda is a patron… Continue reading “A teacher and columnist…”
Gabriel Byrne and the Gathering
https://faduda.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/gabrielbyrne.mp3
Solar weather and planet Earth
An interview with Dr Lyndsay Fletcher, Glasgow University, about solar weather, recorded for Scibernia in June 2011. Guth: Finding A Voice · #11: When Are Bloggers Media?
Irish Science Teachers Association
An interview with Yvonne Higgins, chairperson of the Irish Science Teachers Association, for Scibernia, recorded in April 2011. Guth: Finding A Voice · Scibernia: Science Teachers Ireland
Dunsink Observatory and Dublin Mean Time
I recently visited Dunsink observatory to do a piece for Scibernia. You can listen to the piece below, or visit the Scibernia website to hear the entire show, including insect-eating and the science behind invisibility cloaks. Click here to listen: Guth: Finding A Voice · #8: Dublin Time at Dunsink Observatory
Scibernia: The SFI Think-In
I’m an occasional contributor to Scibernia, the Science podcast also broadcast on Near fm. Too occasional, unfortunately. While I’ve done a few reports for the project, scheduling problems mean I rarely get a chance to sit in on the studio recordings. I do however manage the occasional piece, such as when I travelled to the… Continue reading Scibernia: The SFI Think-In
Get the feeling we didn’t hear enough about the referendums?
From Marian Finucane on RTE Radio One last Saturday, Fergal Keane: Maybe referendums just aren’t that much fun. https://faduda.ie/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/marianfun.mp3
Don’t Know
A cabinet minster is unable to say whether or not public funds have been awarded to An Smaoineamh Mór, the company behind Your Country Your Call (YCYC), or on what basis they might receive such funds. YCYC, a competition to come up with Ideas To Save Ireland, has previously been mentioned here, mostly because I’m… Continue reading Don’t Know