Alan Braddish

Near FM 90.3 logo in green and orange surrounded by fields of green, white, and orange

We stand for unity, diversity, and inclusion and so does #OurFlag

Catalysts for Change: Ireland and the EU in Conversation – Prof. Aine Kelly – Near FM – Listen Again

Catalysts for Change: Ireland and the EU in Conversation – Prof. Aine Kelly listenagain.org?p=58332

Day 1: sharing the calendar

A stone bridge over the Thames. A red bus crossing it. Blue skies up.

Kingston bridge today.

YouTube video by phalenopsis1 Ella Fitzgerald: Lullaby of Birdland

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY8z...

@profanity.accountant how bad am i at swearing?

Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein

It’s pronounced Fronkenronken

To help foster healthier #MediaLiteracy, communities need:
✔️ rapid response funding
✔️ peer-to-peer learning networks
✔️ enabling policy frameworks
...says keynote speaker, Roslyn Kratochvil Moore from Deutsche Welle Akademie. #MLIConf25

This is how I found out he had passed 😢

Good choice, creepy and disturbing.

An over exposed image of Uranus, with its 5 brightest moons. The innermost, and faintest, is Miranda, which is only just visible on the edge of the glare from the planet. This is the first time I've been able to record Miranda

Uranus and its 5 brightest moons.
Miranda is the closest to Uranus and is about 50,000x fainter than the planet, making it a challenge to capture in the glare of the planet.
This is a 24 image stack. Uranus is over-exposed to help record Miranda. It's just visible on the edge of Uranus' glare!
🔭

Two dolls of Woody and Jessie from Toy Story hanging from the boot of a car. As seen in Coolock.

Hang on in there! The weather may be cold 🥶 but we have Roots music at 2.30, Joy and Jargon at 3.30, Stories from Foster Care at 4.30 and Ar Muin na Muice at 5.30. Stay in and listen to the radio #speirgorm nearfm.ie/livestream

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall

The only proper way to deal with people like that is to eat their brains.

Leon Diop: ‘The far right want to turn this into an immigrant problem, but they just don’t like black and brown people’ The founder of advocacy group Black and Irish on the childhood racism he experienced in Tallaght, overcoming his identity crisis, and the recent violence in Citywest

Leon Diop: ‘The far right want to turn this into an immigrant problem, but they just don’t like black and brown people’

Pierce Brosnan in a turtleneck

A wading bird

Ger speaks to botanist Tom Cooney on the unique flora and fauna to be found on Bull Island in Dublin Bay listenagain.org?p=57893

Nonetheless congratulations on the new house.

The insect ones or White Anglo-Saxon Protestants?

Last nights Grove Radio Show @nearfm.ie playlist and playback link below. Thanks to Ger Quinn for a great show and to all our listeners for continued support. Next show 21 Nov.

www.mixcloud.com/thegroveradi...

On this day in 1837, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy was shot dead by a mob while trying to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a 3rd time.

Here’s your reminder that we must support independent media at all costs.@krassenstein.bsky.social @johncusack.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

🚨 SELLING FAST: Tom Dunne, Fiachna Ó Braonáin & Alan Connor

Dunne of Something Happens, Ó Braonáin of Hothouse Flowers and multi-instrumentalist Connor return to celebrate their latest album, Live at Pavilion Theatre.

Sat 29 Nov & Sat 6 Dec | Book now: buff.ly/8O6ernX

Special thanks to Rian for dropping by Kilbarrack last week.

He got to practice his firefighting skills with our high pressure hose reel.

Michael O’Neill

Catalyst for Change: Ireland and the EU in Conversation. At 12.35pm today Michael O’Neill of Pure Ocean Algae joins Emma to discuss ‘Island Advantage: Ireland, The EU and the Rise of the Blue Economy.’

Nice selection, Halloween (78) for me first.

Which ones made the selection this year?

Day 31:
Hell House LLC
Halloween (1978) 🎃

Oíche Shamhna Shona Duit 🎃 👻 🎃 👻 🎃

Garret Fitzgerald and Margaret Thatcher sign the agreement

The 40th Anniversary of the Anglo-Irish Agreement
At 12.15pm Daithí O’Ceallaigh speaks to Mercedes about an event to mark the anniversary taking place at @tlrhub.bsky.social

Saw this as part of my October gorging of horror flicks and it is indeed marvellous and weird.

Promo for the new series of the New Drama Hour. Starts this Friday at 19.00 on @nearfm.ie

#AudioDrama #WorldAudioDramaDay