Mighty Oaks avoids the obvious and the clichéd (e.g. pensions and bus passes), and focuses on older people as people who happen to be old. Age, for the most part, isn't focused on. Instead, compelling and surprising stories are told, in which the main characters happen to be older people. The older…
'Twas the night before Christmas, and an extra special older person took our call.
In the final episode of the series, a folk duo of forty years continue to find fulfillment in their music.
Leo O'Kelly and Sonny Condell, of folk duo Tír na nÓg, describe the experience and the importance of Toner's as a music venue in the 1970s.
We discuss the benefits of education and what it's like to go back to it after thirty years.
We explore negative attitudes toward age, how they infect many parts of our lives and whether they're true or necessary.
Conor Breen explains the origin of the retirement age of 65 and its enduring influence.
The world of pre-digital printing, and all it entails, is opened up. The molten metal, the nuts and bolts...and the noise. So much noise.
Some of Dublin's enthusiastic older cyclists talk about the thrills - and challenges - of cycling in the capital.
Risteárd Mulcahy on a thirty-year obsession - with his bike.
We talk to sportspeople; one of whom has overcome adversity to go the distance. The others? Well, they're playing a sport that isn't a sport. Officially.
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