Podcasts about Maynooth

Were the secularists right in their declaration that religion is in the museum of history or is religion far from dead in 2025? It's a question provoked by a recent lecture given in Maynooth university in County Kildare by one of the best-known theologians from these islands. Dr Anna Rowlands, who is professor of Catholic social thought at Durham University and a recent advisor to the Vatican, told the gathering that not only is the political significance of religion rising, but new forms of religious and post-religious practice are emerging in both the global north and south. She joined the Sunday Sequence debate chaired by Audrey Carville. Also in the discussion is the theologian Professor Laurence Kirkpatrick and human rights defender Baroness Nuala O'Loan.

In the third episode of ‘My Identity' Professor Colin Graham (Maynooth) is in conversation with Manchán Magan. This episode is a recording of a public conversation which took place in Dublin on 4 February 2025. Manchán Magan has written books on his travels in Africa, India and South America. He writes occasionally for The Irish Times, and presents the Almanac of Ireland podcast for RTÉ. He has made dozens of documentaries on issues of world culture for TG4, RTÉ, & Travel Channel. His books include Thirty-Two Words For Field, Listen to the Land Speak, Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Words For Nature, and Wolf-Men and Water Hounds. With Antic-Ham, he's collaborated on two art books for Redfoxpress. www.manchan.com In this episode he discusses his identity and background as well as his work. Read more about this public event: https://www.ria.ie/blog/you-need-to-walk-the-land-to-feel-the-stories/ About the Series This is episode 3 of the My Identity podcast series hosted by Professor Colin Graham, Maynooth. In this series, Colin is in conversation with a range of people whose ideas, work and life experiences shed light on the topic of identity on the Island of Ireland. My Identity is part of the ARINS project. Colin Graham is Professor English and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Maynooth University. His books include Northern Ireland: Thirty Years of Photography, Deconstructing Ireland and Ideologies of Epic. He was editor of The Irish Review from 2004 to 2020. During the Brexit negotiations he created the Twitter account @borderirish and wrote the book I am the Border, so I am, published by HarperCollins. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at WWW.ARINSPROJECT.COM ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs. My Identity is hosted by Professor Colin Graham. Podcast management and production by Dr Susie Deedigan. Audio design and editing by Conor Patterson and Morgan Blain-Crehan, The Spinner's Mill, Belfast.

ePower is to supply over 20 shopping centres across 14 counties nationwide with high speed EV charging points, following a partnership agreement with Lanthorn, which manages a portfolio of over €1.6bn of property throughout Ireland. Rollout will begin in 2025, and the sites where chargers will be installed include Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway, as well as busy urban areas like Navan, Dundalk, Mullingar, Athlone, Maynooth, Portlaoise and Kilkenny. ?ePower is working closely with Lanthorn in association with their project managers, KSNPM. ePower has been selected following a competitive process, which took into account the company's ability to offer high speed charging facilities, tailored specifically to each site, and crucially, the assurance that the sites would be maintained and serviced by ePower's 24/7 help desk, field engineering and remote management. Commenting on the development, John O'Keeffe, CEO of Power, said: "We're very proud to be part of the drive towards making electric vehicles a better choice for consumers. The rollout and delivery of chargers, be it through public or private partnerships, is key to this. Through this partnership with Lanthorn, ePower plans to have super-fast chargers installed at shopping centres around Ireland, from Donegal to Cork and many places in between; it's a great expansion for us in what's been a hugely successful year of growth." It's been a busy year for ePower; the company recently joined forces with Dublin's local authorities to bring online up to 200 fast chargers across the region in 2025. The initial phase of the project will see ePower's high-speed chargers installed at more than 40 Dublin locations across the four Dublin local authorities. The company also won six of 17 government contracts for the rollout of new high-speed electric car charging hubs across Ireland, due to be operational by the end of 2025. Shopping Centres that will see the installation of ePower chargers · Dunnes Stores, Stephens Green SC, Dublin · Swords Central Shopping Station, Dublin · Dunnes Stores, Donaghmede SC, Dublin · Nutgrove SC, Rathfarnham, Dublin · Dunnes Stores, Manor Mills SC, Maynooth, Kildare · Beechmount Shopping Centre, Navan, Meath · Navan Town Centre, Navan, Meath · Fairgreen Shopping Centre, Mullingar, Westmeath · Harbour Place Shopping Centre, Mullingar, Westmeath · The Golden Island Shopping Centre Athlone, Westmeath · Galway Shopping Centre, Headford Rd, Galway · Dunnes Stores, Parkway SC, Dublin Rd, Limerick · Castlewest SC, Ballincollig, Cork · Thurles SC, Slievenamon Rd, Thurles, Co. Tipperary · McDonagh SC, Kilkenny · Dungarvan Shopping Centre, Dungarvan, Waterford · The Marshes Shopping Centre, Dundalk, Louth · Long Walk SC, Dundalk, Co. Louth · Port Road, Letterkenny, Co Donegal · Cavan Retail Park, Dublin Rd, Cavan · Penneys, Laois Shopping Centre, Portlaoise, Co. Laois

In this episode of Encounter on Radio Maria Ireland, Rebecca speaks with Eoin McCormack from the Pontifical Irish College in Rome. Eoin shares his personal journey of faith, from growing up in Maynooth to his decision to study theology and engage in pastoral ministry. He discusses the challenges of faith in modern times and the […] L'articolo Encounter – Faith, Formation, and a Journey in Rome: Eoin McCormack's Story proviene da Radio Maria.

What's the best advice you've ever been given for a long and happy marriage?Former Royal now-turned Wellness Guru, Meghan Markle has been doling out life tips in her latest series ‘With Love, Meghan', and as part of the publicity campaign she revealed why her marriage to Prince Harry works – saying the pair have never stopped dating.So, should you always date your other half in a bid to keep the spark alive?Helen Vaughan, Psychotherapist from the Coast Counselling in Malahide and Maynooth joins Seán to discuss.

Wow, what a morning we had at Celtic Horizon Tours, kicking off The Big Busk. So much craic! There were celebrity guests in the form of Gift Grub's Michael D and The FOGS, live music from the amazing Kingfishr and of course, the one and only David Buckley, who donated 21,000 euro to The Big Busk for Focus Ireland! Subscribe to The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show wherever you get your podcasts.

What's the best advice you've ever been given for a long and happy marriage?Former Royal now-turned Wellness Guru, Meghan Markle has been doling out life tips in her latest series ‘With Love, Meghan', and as part of the publicity campaign she revealed why her marriage to Prince Harry works – saying the pair have never stopped dating.So, should you always date your other half in a bid to keep the spark alive?Helen Vaughan, Psychotherapist from the Coast Counselling in Malahide and Maynooth joins Seán to discuss.

Episode Summary:John Dominic Crossan is the world's most prominent Jesus scholar. He joins me today on Holy Heretics to discuss what we can, and what we cannot, know about the life of this first century Jewish peasant. Unlike traditional theological portrayals of Jesus, which center primarily on his death and resurrection, Crossan's scholarship focuses on the historicity of Jesus. Who was he? What evidence do we have to support his existence? Instead of asking why Jesus died, Crossan has spent decades unearthing the reasons Jesus lived.For Crossan, Jesus was a radical social revolutionary who confronted Roman oppression and attempted to live into an alternative version of reality. His portrayal challenges conventional Christian perspectives that see Jesus primarily as a divine figure who came to die for our sins.In books like The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (1991), Crossan presents Jesus as a figure who opposed both Roman imperial rule and the hierarchical structures of Jewish society. He describes Jesus' movement as one of radical inclusivity and nonviolent resistance. Crossan's work has been controversial, particularly among conservative Christians, because he downplays the supernatural aspects of Jesus' life, including the literal resurrection. Instead, he sees the resurrection as a symbolic event representing the triumph of Jesus' teachings.I'm delighted to share our conversation with you! If you are interested in learning more about the historical Jesus, this episode is a fantastic introduction. By challenging conventional wisdom and introducing his rigorous historical methods, Dom Crossan invites listeners to meet Jesus again for the first time.BIO:John Dominic Crossan is an Irish-born American theologian and former Roman Catholic priest best known for his association with the Jesus Seminar. Upon graduating from high school in Letterkenny, Ireland, in 1950, Crossan moved to Chicago, where he joined the Servites, a Roman Catholic monastic order. Ordained a priest in 1957, he returned to Ireland to study at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, and received a doctorate in theology in 1959. He then studied at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome for two years before returning to his Servite community to teach.In 1965 he began study at the École Biblique et Archaéologie Française de Jérusalem (French Institute of Bible and Archaeology, Jerusalem). Two years later he returned to Chicago to join the faculty of the Chicago Catholic Theological Union. In 1969 he resigned from the Servite priesthood, citing a longing for academic freedom and his intention to marry. He soon joined the faculty of religious studies at Chicago's DePaul University, where he taught until his retirement in 1995.Crossan continues to write and lecture today. His most insightful books include The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus' Final Days in Jerusalem, The First Paul, God and Empire, andJesus: A Revolutionary Biography.Please follow us on social media (use the buttons below) and help us get the word out! (Also, please don't hesitate to use any of these channels or email to contact us with any questions, concerns, or feedback.)If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a rating and a review, or share on your socials

To celebrate the launch of Engineers Week 2025, running from 1 - 7 March, Intel Ireland and Engineers Ireland visited aspiring engineers at Scoil Mhuire National School in Leixlip. This marks the sixth year of Intel Ireland's sponsorship of the Engineers Ireland STEPS programme. As part of Engineers Week, Intel Ireland employees are visiting local schools to host engineering challenges and share their experiences. 35 volunteers will visit 20 schools in Leixlip, Celbridge, Maynooth and Kilcock. In total, over 700 students will take part in the Intel-hosted activities. "We are proud to once again collaborate with Engineers Ireland to help inspire future engineers through the STEPS Programme," says Tom Kinch, Engineering Manager at Intel Ireland. "The programme offers an important opportunity for young people to have an interactive experience of the world of STEM, paving the way for the next generation of innovators." Over the course of the partnership, Intel Ireland has taken part in STEM outreach activities including judging competitions, organising events, and conducting interactive career talks, all of which showcases the company's commitment to supporting and growing the next generation of engineers in Ireland. "Engineers Week is a fantastic opportunity to introduce children to the wonderful world of engineering, demonstrating how engineers are tackling our planet's most pressing challenges," says Damien Owens, Director General of Engineers Ireland. "The support of Intel Ireland is vital to share the exciting prospects of a career in engineering and inspire the next generation of problem-solvers." About STEPS and Engineers Week The Engineers Ireland STEPS Programme is designed to open up the exciting possibilities that engineering offers to school children who want to make a real difference in the world. Engineers Week 2025 will take place from Saturday, 1 to Friday, 7 March 2025. Engineers Week has been created to introduce primary and secondary school children to the diverse world of engineering.

A leading Oncologist has warned that patients on lower incomes are missing out on vital cancer treatment…Are we in danger of developing a two-tier health system like we see in the US?To discuss, Andrea is joined by Bernard Mahon, a Lecturer in Maynooth who was diagnosed with stage four stomach cancer. Also joining to discuss is listener Samantha.

In the second episode of ‘My Identity' Professor Colin Graham (Maynooth) is in conversation with NI Justice Minister and Leader of the Alliance Party, Naomi Long MLA. This episode is a recording of a public conversation which took place in Dublin on 6 December 2024. A lifelong resident of East Belfast, and politically active since her early twenties, Naomi first joined Belfast City Council as an Alliance Party councillor in 2001. She was subsequently elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly as MLA for East Belfast in 2003. After having the honour of serving as Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2009 to 2010, she became the first Alliance MP elected to Westminster, as Member of Parliament for East Belfast in 2010, unseating the then First Minister, Peter Robinson. In May 2016, Naomi returned to the Northern Ireland Assembly as MLA for East Belfast, before becoming Leader of Alliance that October. Since then, she has presided over the most successful elections in Alliance's history. Naomi is the current Justice Minister in the Northern Ireland Executive. In this episode she discusses, among other things, her upbringing, her faith and her career journey. The recording of the event can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXiqr9KX34s Read more about the event here: https://www.ria.ie/blog/the-long-view-identity-is-a-fluke-of-where-you-were-born/ This is episode 2 of the My Identity podcast series hosted by Professor Colin Graham, Maynooth. In this series, Colin is in conversation with a range of people whose ideas, work and life experiences shed light on the topic of identity on the Island of Ireland. My Identity is part of the ARINS project. Colin Graham is Professor English and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Maynooth University. His books include Northern Ireland: Thirty Years of Photography, Deconstructing Ireland and Ideologies of Epic. He was editor of The Irish Review from 2004 to 2020. During the Brexit negotiations he created the Twitter account @borderirish and wrote the book I am the Border, so I am, published by HarperCollins. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs. My Identity is hosted by Professor Colin Graham. Podcast management and production by Dr Susie Deedigan. Audio design and editing by The Spinning Mill, Belfast.

Aengus Cox, Consumer Affairs Correspondent, reports that the airport hopper bus services between Maynooth and Tallaght and Dublin Airport have ceased due to financial difficulties, the operator has confirmed.

In this episode of Alimentary! I am delighted to welcome Penny Sharkey (and yes we are related!) to discuss how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) can be used either by itself or with other therapeutic tools in therapy to support mental health and wellbeing. Penny is a professional counsellor and psychotherapist, and a member of the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP). She holds a First-Class Honours Degree in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy, a Degree in Social Studies, and a master's Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Currently, she works in a private practice in Celbridge and Maynooth, in Co. Kildare. From an early age, Penny developed a curiosity in how the power of human connection and the resilience of the human spirit worked. This passion was sparked by witnessing a friend struggle with severe anxiety and depression and seeing how effective therapy was in transforming their life. That experience motivated her to help others navigate their own challenges and find healing. In her practice, she strives to create a warm, accepting, and honest environment where clients feel safe to explore their feelings. Her therapeutic approach is flexible and client-centered, emphasizing empathy and tailored interventions to meet each person's unique needs. She believes in the power of active listening, congruence, and guidance to help clients discover meaning, build resilience, and achieve personal growth. She primarily works with Person-Centred Therapy, Choice Theory/Reality Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to support clients on their journey towards well-being. She said that it has been so fulfilling to work in supporting those who are seeking support, helping them find their own strength and clarity in times of distress. Other Resources Penny Sharkey Linkedin https://ie.linkedin.com/in/penny-sharkey-a4205527a Penny Sharkey Private Practice website https://www.thelisteningco.ie/ IACP List of Therapists https://iacp.ie/page/therapists?co=6&cat=11 HSE National Counselling Service https://www2.hse.ie/mental-health/services-support/ncs/ Mental Health Ireland https://www.mentalhealthireland.ie/get-support/ Aware https://www.aware.ie/ Youth Mental Health https://jigsaw.ie/ The Encylopaedia of Healing Foods by Dr Michael Murray, Dr Joseph Pizzorno with Lara Pizzorno MA, LMT Recipes for Kale https://www.jamieoliver.com/inspiration/killer-kale-recipes/ https://www.loveandlemons.com/kale-recipes/ Music composed by cascreativearts, copyright Lyn Sharkey Nutrition. www.lynsharkeynutrition.ie

Salvador Ryan, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth, gives his opinion on the first ever autobiography published by a sitting Pope.

Barry Fennelly is the Manager of the Paddy Harrington Scholarship in Maynooth University. He sat down with Jonny for a discussion around the growth of the Scholarship, it's mandate to produce Tour Professional golfers and Co-Captaining the International Side for the Arnold Palmer Cup in Lahinch this year. Barry and I went into great detail on the R&A Student Series and how important that pathway is for his own player, but European amateur golf as a whole and why he only sees it growing and improving and becoming a legitimately viable alternative to golf in America for athletes looking to pursue a career as professional golfers. The Bogey Men golf podcast is supported by AIG, dedicated supporters of amateur golf in Ireland. This series will showcase some of the incredible Amateur golf across Ireland this year. Go visit AIG.ie for a range of golf exclusive discounts and benefits on their products. Golf Ireland members can save an additional 10% on their car insurance, and you can enjoy some exclusive benefits when you choose AIG Insurance. Check out other episodes and more on our youtube channel & podcast platforms. If you liked this episode, please leave a review and share the show with your friends.

In this Missing Persons Day special, you'll hear from Detective Chief Superintendent Colm Noonan who has responsibility for the Garda Missing Persons Unit, Jerry Bradley, brother of Alan Bradley who went missing in Maynooth, Kildare in 1999 and you'll hear from Dr Hilary Clarke, a scientist from Forensic Science Ireland (FSI). Missing Persons Day, hosted by the Department of Justice, is an annual commemorative day for families and friends to remember their missing loved ones. It's also a day for An Garda Síochána to highlight how we will do all we can to bring those who are missing home and to encourage anyone with information about any missing person to please contact us. You can do so by contacting any Garda Station or by calling the Garda Confidential Line 1800 666 111.

Dan's first story is  weird. We had a hard time tracking it and understanding it  so if you have trouble too - don't worry. We'll talk afterwards and clear up any confusion. Then, we'll visit what sure seems to be a powerfully and malevolently haunted former seminary room in Maynooth in County Kildare, Ireland. A haunting that reads like the basis for a really good horror movie. Then, Lynze shares an interesting haunted apartment story where a family lives in two separate apartments in the same building that both seem to be plagued by the same "something". What is it? Where does it stem from? Then, lastly, a creepy mimmic tale. Or is it? This weeks entire show is really weird and does not offer a ton of solutions, making it that much scarier.  Bad Magic Holiday Merch: The 2024 Holiday Collection!Take a good look at fan favorite, Ezra Calhoun from The Beast of Bodie, or grab your duffel bag for a stay at the 1987 Shiloh Bible Camp from The Devil's Butcher. Spend an evening in the 1780 Hotel from "Vacancy" Or maybe you'd rather spend a night in Jure's  Historic Villa from "The Villa of Moonlight".  Support your local dollmaker with a Sam's Custom Doll Company tee from "Sometimes The Darkness Wins” and it's sequel. We also have a fun new illustration featuring Mothman sitting in comfort by the fire, enjoying a nice Holiday break! You can also catch some classic holiday favorites like The Ugly Layla, Winter Wendigo, STD stockings & neckties, and more! Part 2 featuring felt pennants, a challenge coin, and more drops soon! Cutoff to receive items by Xmas is Dec 10. Visit badmagicproductions.com to shop the 2024 Holiday collection today!Thank you for continuing to send in your stories, Creeps and Peepers!**Please keep doing so!!Send them to mystory@scaredtodeathpodcast.comSend everything else to info@scaredtodeathpodcast.comWant to be a Patron? Get episodes AD-FREE, listen and watch before they are released to anyone else, bonus episodes, a 20% merch discount, additional content, and more! Learn more by visiting: https://www.patreon.com/scaredtodeathpodcast.Please rate, review, and subscribe anywhere you listen.Thank you for listening!Follow the show on social media: @scaredtodeathpodcast on Facebook and IG and TTWebsite: https://www.badmagicproductions.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scaredtodeathpodcastInstagram: https://bit.ly/2miPLf5Mailing Address:Scared to Deathc/o Timesuck PodcastPO Box 3891Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816Opening Sumerian protection spell (adapted):"Whether thou art a ghost that hath come from the earth, or a phantom of night that hath no home… or one that lieth dead in the desert… or a ghost unburied… or a demon or a ghoul… Whatever thou be until thou art removed… thou shalt find here no water to drink… Thou shalt not stretch forth thy hand to our own… Into our house enter thou not. Through our fence, breakthrough thou not… we are protected though we may be frightened. Our life you may not steal, though we may feel SCARED TO DEATH."

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~The Empty HouseIt was the spring of 1894, and all of London was shocked by the terrible murder of Mr. Ronald Adair. I wished my late friend, Sherlock Holmes, was still here because this crime had a mystery to it that I knew he would have loved to solve. Three years had passed since Holmes's death. He had died during a fight with his enemy, Professor James Moriarty, at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Both of them had fallen into the powerful water below. Now, all I had were my memories of Holmes and the many adventures we had shared together. My time with Holmes had given me a deep interest in crime, and every day I read the newspapers to look for unsolved robberies and murders. Sometimes, I even tried to use Holmes's methods to solve them, though I wasn't very successful. The murder of Ronald Adair was especially interesting to me, and I carefully read all the evidence presented at the inquest. All day, as I visited my patients, I kept thinking about the case. However, I couldn't figure out how the murder was committed, or who the killer was. Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth, who was the governor of an Australian colony. His mother came back to England from Australia in the summer of 1893 for an eye operation. She, Ronald, and his sister Hilda lived at 427 Park Lane in London. Ronald quickly became popular with the upper class of London society. He seemed like a well-liked young man who had no enemies. In the autumn of that year, he got engaged to Miss Edith Woodley, but they ended the engagement by Christmas. There were no bad feelings, and they stayed friends. People who knew Ronald Adair said he was quiet, modest, and easy to get along with. There was nothing about his life or personality that made it seem like he would meet a violent end. However, he died in a strange and brutal way between 10:00 and 11:20 p.m. on the night of March 30, 1894. Ronald Adair enjoyed playing card games. He was a member of three card clubs in London and played almost every day, but usually for small amounts of money. On the day he died, he played two rounds of whist at the Bagatelle Club, one in the afternoon and one after dinner. His fellow players—Mr. Henry Murray, Sir John Hardy, and Colonel Sebastian Moran—later said there were no big wins or losses that day. Adair might have lost five pounds, but that was a small amount for someone with his wealth. He was a careful player, though he did win big sometimes. For example, he once won £420 in a single round with Colonel Moran as his partner. On the night he died, Ronald Adair came home from his club at exactly ten o'clock. His mother and sister were out visiting someone. The servant said she heard him go into his sitting room on the second floor. She had already lit a fire in the room and opened a window to let out the smoke. No one heard any noise from that room until Lady Maynooth and Hilda came back home at eleven-twenty.

4th November 2024 – Alex Harding is a singer-songwriter from Maynooth. Following the release of his latest EP ‘The The End', he chatted to Matthias about his experience being a Catholic making music that's not generally religious, at least not explicitly. Alex is also working with the Thomistic Institute in the Angelicum, and we talk […] L'articolo Alex Harding – Making Popular Music as a Catholic proviene da Radio Maria.

The Ocean Knowledge 2030 conference promises to be a milestone event in ocean research and collaboration, bringing together leading voices in marine science, policy, and industry to address the most pressing challenges and opportunities for the future of our oceans. This event will set the course for Ireland's marine research and policy agenda, focusing on innovation, collaboration, and actionable strategies to secure a sustainable blue economy and a healthy ocean for future generations. Ocean Knowledge 2030 Conference Highlights: The two-day event, moderated by journalist Karen Coleman, will feature keynote presentations, strategic panel discussions, and networking opportunities designed to foster innovation and collaboration in ocean research and policy. • Session 1: Living with a Changing Ocean will feature a keynote from Gerard McCarthy (University of Maynooth) and panelists from Met Éireann, Trinity College Dublin, and the Marine Institute, discussing Ireland's policy and knowledge needs in addressing the impacts of a rapidly changing ocean. In addition, Irish wildlife cameraman, director, and broadcaster Colin Stafford Johnson will share his insights on the frontline. • Session 2: Ireland's Ocean Economy: Research, Knowledge & Innovation will delve into Ireland's marine industries, including seafood production, offshore renewable energy and maritime transport, exploring how research and innovation can drive sustainable development in these sectors. Speakers include Claire Jolly (OECD), Caroline Bocquel (BIM), Liam Lacey (Marine Institute) and Kerrie Sheehan (SEAI). • Session 3: One Global Ocean will explore Ireland's role in international research policy and ocean governance. Speakers include Carl Grainger (Department of Foreign Affairs) and John Bell (European Commission), as well as international experts, who will discuss Ireland's influence on ocean science and its priorities for international cooperation. • Session 4: Managing the Changing Use of Ireland's Ocean Space will examine the research needs for managing Ireland's maritime space. Philip Nugent (DECC), Laura Brien (MARA) and other panelists will discuss the increasing use of Ireland's maritime space for industrial, recreational and conservation needs and the balancing of ocean health with economic activities. • Session 5: The Power of Ocean Data will showcase how digital technologies and data are driving sustainable ocean industries, with Conor Delaney (EMODNet), Jon Blower (UK National Oceanography Centre), and other leading experts discussing the role of ocean data in shaping future policy and industry practices. With a focus on setting the research agenda for Ireland's ocean future, the conference will also launch the new national strategy for marine research, knowledge and innovation Ocean Knowledge 2030. Dr Rick Officer, CEO of the Marine Institute, emphasised the importance of this strategy: "The upcoming launch of the Ocean Knowledge 2030 Strategy represents a new era for marine research in Ireland. This strategy is about empowering decision-makers with the knowledge, data and evidence they need to address urgent challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, energy security and sustainable economic development. This is not just about gathering data; it's about using knowledge to make informed decisions that will protect and sustainably manage our ocean resources for future generations. "The Ocean Knowledge 2030 Strategy will mobilise Ireland's marine research community to deliver new levels of innovation and impact. The strategy will provide a roadmap for Ireland to build on its strengths in marine science, while fostering collaboration across sectors, and positioning the country as a global leader in ocean science and policy" he added. There's still time to register and participate in shaping the future of ocean research and sustainability. Don't miss your opportunity and secure your place at Ocean Knowledge 2030 and be part of this vital conve...

This episode explores PCI's vision for church planting across Ireland. It considers why we need more churches on this island, and how that can be an effective way to reach new people with the good news of Jesus Christ. Tom Gilliam, an elder in Maynooth, and Josh McCance, church plant leader in Balbriggan, share their experiences and insights into church planting along with ways everyone can be involved. PCI is holding a Church Planting Taster Day in Maynooth on 16 November 2024. For more information and to register visit: www.presbyterianireland.org/churchplanting

Declan Cregan, a former gambling addict and Officer at Gambling with Lives spoke to Ellen Butler on Breakfast Briefing this morning about this new report from Maynooth and Belfast that suggests that sports programmers are heavily saturated with gambling adverts.Does more need to be done to challenge this, and are some people vulnerable to harm here?Oisin McConville, Gambling Care Ambassador and Conor Hoey, former Chairperson of Drogheda United join Kieran to discuss.

RTÉ's Economics and Public Affairs correspondent David Murphy, and then Political Correspondent Paul Cunningham, discuss what we can expect to see in today's budget. Our reporter Kate Varley also spoke to people in Maynooth to get a sense of what they're hoping to hear ahead of the budget.

University College Dublin (UCD) has announced that fifteen participants have been selected for a new specialist food and agriculture entrepreneurship programme being delivered by the UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering in partnership with Teagasc. The announcement was made in Enterprise Ireland's Innovation Arena at the 2024 National Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, Co. Laois, and was attended by Peter Burke TD, Minster for Enterprise, Trade and Employment. Peter Burke TD, Minster for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, said, "I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the fifteen participants who have been selected to take part in the inaugural 12-month Food and Agriculture Sustainable Technology Innovation Programme or FAST-IP. The ambition of FAST-IP is to drive innovation in Ireland's food and agricultural sector by supporting needs-led innovation, creating start-ups with the capability to scale and sell internationally, and generating new jobs for the sector in Ireland. I wish the participants every success in the year ahead." FAST-IP will further enhance innovation in the food and agri sector by providing programme participants with the necessary skills to evaluate, select and validate ideas for new products and services in this sector and to accelerate the commercialisation pathway for the identified products and services. FAST-IP is currently underway at the AgTechUCD Innovation Centre at UCD Lyons Farm in Co. Kildare and will be delivered annually until the end of 2029. FAST-IP is accredited by UCD at Level 9 on the National Qualifications Framework and participants who complete the programme will be awarded a Graduate Diploma in Agrifood Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Professor Kate Robson Brown, UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact, said, "We were delighted to receive nearly 200 applications for FAST-IP's inaugural programme which is a strong indication of the demand for this exciting Innovators' Initiative programme from across Ireland and indeed internationally. I would especially like to congratulate the fifteen participants who have been selected for the first programme following a rigorous interview process and I wish them every success over the coming year. During the next year the participants will work together to discover real world needs in the food and agricultural sector through their immersive experiences in industry environments and bring innovative solutions to address the identified needs in a commercially viable manner with the aim of creating start-ups and generating new jobs." Participant Brian Russell, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, said, "I am excited to be accepted as a participant in the first year of the FAST-IP programme. As I change my career trajectory the programme provides me with a unique opportunity to bring my experience from manufacturing, project management and quality, into a diverse team driving sustainable technology and innovation in the Food and Agriculture sector, turning transformative ideas into viable business propositions. With most of my career having been overseas, the contact network that the programme offers, meeting, learning and collaborating with industry leaders and experts is an incredibly resource to be part of." FAST-IP uses design-thinking methodologies and has a practical focus. Through the programme, participants will learn how to conduct needs-led innovation to develop market-validated solutions to unmet needs in the areas of agricultural technology and food sustainability sectors. Participants will also spend 8-10 weeks immersed in agricultural environments, including farms, food processing companies and Teagasc locations throughout the programme. Professor Frank O'Mara, Teagasc Director, said, "The world leading research, expertise and facilities from the UCD and Teagasc partnership and supporting industry networks, will demonstrate the breadth and depth of the agri-food sector to the participants. We look forward to...

Cette fois, c'est à Bruxelles qu'on manifeste, contre la fermeture de l'usine automobile Audi qui emploie 3 000 personnes. C'est une filiale de Volkswagen le premier groupe automobile européen, dont les bénéfices nets ont chuté de plus de 4% l'année dernière (2023). Tout un symbole alors qu'on discute sur le continent de nouvelles taxes pour s'opposer aux exportations de voitures électriques chinoises.  Volkswagen a du mal à faire face à la concurrence. Et il a annoncé que des usines pourraient fermer en Allemagne, et surtout la fin de l'emploi garanti pour ses salariés. Dans la ville de Wolfsburg, où un tiers de la population travaille pour le constructeur, l'annonce a été très mal vécue. C'est la fin d'un modèle allemand… à bout de souffle. Salome Hénon Cohin est allée recueillir les réactions sur place.  La tempête Boris, un évènement historique Plus de dix morts, des milliers de personnes évacuées, et des villages entièrement sous l'eau, avec des habitants quittant leur maison avec de l'eau jusqu'aux aisselles.... la tempête Boris et ses pluies diluviennes a fait des ravages en Europe centrale. Elle se poursuit aujourd'hui encore en Autriche.... À l'heure où la terre fait face à un réchauffement d'un degré et demi, faut-il désormais se préparer à ces phénomènes extrêmes ? À Vienne, Céline Béal a demandé au  météorologue et climatologue  Fabian Lehner, si on était face à un évènement historique.Une ville pour les autistesEn Irlande, une ville a été spécialement conçue pour accueillir les autistes. Le pays est après la Corée du Sud, celui qui compte le plus d'enfants atteints de troubles autistiques. Notre correspondante Clémence Penard s'est rendue dans la ville de Maynooth pour voir comment elle s'était adaptée, en commençant par l'école.  Les tractations pour un gouvernement... en BelgiqueIl n'y a pas qu'en France qu'on attend un gouvernement. En Belgique aussi... Plus de trois mois après les élections législatives, les tractations sont toujours en cours. Et Julien Chavanne, c'est Bart de Wever le président de NVA, le parti conservateur flamand, qui est à la manœuvre pour former un nouveau gouvernement. Bart de Wever est maire d'Anvers. Son portrait est signé Julien Chavanne.  

Cette fois, c'est à Bruxelles qu'on manifeste, contre la fermeture de l'usine automobile Audi qui emploie 3 000 personnes. C'est une filiale de Volkswagen le premier groupe automobile européen, dont les bénéfices nets ont chuté de plus de 4% l'année dernière (2023). Tout un symbole alors qu'on discute sur le continent de nouvelles taxes pour s'opposer aux exportations de voitures électriques chinoises.  Volkswagen a du mal à faire face à la concurrence. Et il a annoncé que des usines pourraient fermer en Allemagne, et surtout la fin de l'emploi garanti pour ses salariés. Dans la ville de Wolfsburg, où un tiers de la population travaille pour le constructeur, l'annonce a été très mal vécue. C'est la fin d'un modèle allemand… à bout de souffle. Salome Hénon Cohin est allée recueillir les réactions sur place.  La tempête Boris, un évènement historique Plus de dix morts, des milliers de personnes évacuées, et des villages entièrement sous l'eau, avec des habitants quittant leur maison avec de l'eau jusqu'aux aisselles.... la tempête Boris et ses pluies diluviennes a fait des ravages en Europe centrale. Elle se poursuit aujourd'hui encore en Autriche.... À l'heure où la terre fait face à un réchauffement d'un degré et demi, faut-il désormais se préparer à ces phénomènes extrêmes ? À Vienne, Céline Béal a demandé au  météorologue et climatologue  Fabian Lehner, si on était face à un évènement historique.Une ville pour les autistesEn Irlande, une ville a été spécialement conçue pour accueillir les autistes. Le pays est après la Corée du Sud, celui qui compte le plus d'enfants atteints de troubles autistiques. Notre correspondante Clémence Penard s'est rendue dans la ville de Maynooth pour voir comment elle s'était adaptée, en commençant par l'école.  Les tractations pour un gouvernement... en BelgiqueIl n'y a pas qu'en France qu'on attend un gouvernement. En Belgique aussi... Plus de trois mois après les élections législatives, les tractations sont toujours en cours. Et Julien Chavanne, c'est Bart de Wever le président de NVA, le parti conservateur flamand, qui est à la manœuvre pour former un nouveau gouvernement. Bart de Wever est maire d'Anvers. Son portrait est signé Julien Chavanne.  

In a new TG4 series from IWR Media, Caomhnóirí na Talún, they follow five Irish farmers over the course of a year as they farm with nature. From an extensive suckler farm on Inis Mór island to the karst beauty of the Burren to the dairy heartland of east Cork, ther cameras follow as these farmers create and conserve habitats on their farms, pioneer new ideas and try to find a way to protect wildlife and their living. Irish farmers, trying to balance nature and farming Across the country we've seen catastrophic declines of birds, wild bees and native plants. Even once common birds of our farmland and open countryside like the skylark and kestrel, are now in deep trouble. The intensification of farming and forestry directed by policy and payments over decades, is seen as one of the most significant contributors to these losses - as land use changed, as wetlands and bogs were drained and reclaimed, as pesticide use and chemical fertiliser increased or as grass management changed such as the switch from hay meadows to silage. As more and more land was brought into production, there was less and less space for wildlife. Yet if biodiversity is to improve, if habitat loss can be reversed or even halted, it is across Irish farmland that change will happen. If it's to happen, farmers are the ones who will turn this crisis around. And across the country there's a growing number of farmers who are forging that path and farming with nature. Over the course of a year, our cameras follow five of these farmers as they create habitats like ponds, nettle patches or bee scrapes on their farms. As they let their hedgerows grow, blossom and fruit. As they discover treasure in the fields. As they adopt new farming techniques like mob grazing or no-till to regenerate soil on intensive ground. Or as they keep faith with traditions such as the winterage [winter grazing] that maintain the wildflower beauty of landscapes like the Burren and the Aran islands. All while trying the find a balance between nature and the realities of making a living from farming. The Farmers Pádraic Ó Flaithearta has a small dry stock suckler herd on Inis Mór and like hundreds of farmers across the Aran islands, Pádraic farms traditionally in one of the most unique habitats of machair and species-rich grassland. John Arnold and his wife Mary run a dairy farm in Bartlemy, east Cork and are part of the flagship farmer-led B.R.I.D.E project [Biodiversity Regeneration in a Dairying Environment]. Full-time teacher and part-time farmer Eoin Collins, farms a suckler beef herd with Dad Michael in Kilfenora, Co. Clare where traditional farming practices maintain the rich flora of their Burren land. Journalist and organic farmer Hannah Quinn-Mulligan farms in partnership with her grandmother Catherine on their Limerick farm where Hannah's been increasing habitats and trialing new farming practices to help nature. And outside Maynooth, Norman Dunne, alongside Dad Michael, has switched to a regenerative farming approach which sees him try to rebuild fertility and life in the soil after decades of intensive tillage. An IWR Media production for TG4 2024 with funding from Coimisiún na Meán. Caomhnóirí na Talún is Written & Directed by Mary Brophy. Co-Directed & Produced by Neal Boyle. More about the show in Irish Tá meath tubaisteach tagtha ar éin, beacha fiáine agus plandaí dúchasacha ar fud na tuaithe. Áirítear diansaothrú na feirmeoireachta agus na foraoiseachta ar cheann de na cúiseanna is mó atá leis seo. Ach má tá feabhas le teacht ar an mbithéagsúlacht, is ar thalamh feirme na tíre a tharlóidh sé. Leantar cúigear feirmeoirí sa tsraith nua seo ó IWR Media agus iad ag feirmeoireacht leis an dúlra, ag cruthú nó ag caomhnú gnáthóga ar a bhfeirmeacha, ag triail smaointe nua agus iad ag iarraidh an dúlra agus a slí bheatha a chosaint. Across the countryside we've seen catastrophic declines of birds, wild bees and native plants. Even once common birds like the skylark and kestrel are n...

It's claimed there's a "pep in the step" of priests in the Diocese of Killaloe as three new vocations have been recorded. For just the second time in 20 years, three men in this Diocese will be entering the seminary at Maynooth later on this month. One candidate is from Tipperary while the remaining two are from Clare - with former Ennis Fianna Fáil Councillor Mark Nestor among them. Principal of St Flannan's College and Vocations Director for the Diocese of Killaloe Father Ignatius McCormack believes while vocations have been falling, the support for the church in Clare has never wavered.

Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version plus all of the artwork created for the YouTube and podcast thumbnails: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p92v7k3IN THIS EPISODE: Like an episode of the Twilight Zone, a Qantas flight had to make an emergency landing when a hole appeared seemingly out of nowhere, puncturing in the fuselage and causing the cabin to suddenly lose pressure. Could it truly be possible that gremlins are to blame? (Gremlins On The Attack) *** We'll also hear from a former member of the Royal Air Force with his own thoughts and research about gremlins. (The Gremlin Question) *** On December 13, 1932, Edna Murray made her escape from the Women's state penitentiary at Jefferson City, Missouri. The “Kissing Bandit” had escaped again… for the third time. (Escape of the Kissing Bandit) *** A college student reads about how his college is haunted – which might explain the strange goings-on in his dorm room. (Invisible Stalker) *** They worked in great secrecy. Their goal was to create a society without a King and Church. They were the Illuminati… but do they still exist? (Secret Society of the Illuminati) *** Greensboro student Maddie thought her apartment might be haunted when clothes vanished and noises came out of nowhere. The truth was even more terrifying. (Closet Criminal) *** Is it possible that OJ Simpson's son Jason was the true killer of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown? (O.J. Simpson: A Killer In The Family) *** After murdering his wife and attempting to kill his children, then unsuccessfully trying to kill himself, Henry Rathbone claimed it was all due to a curse he believed he brought onto himself – which began at the death of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. (The Assassination Curse) *** Is a modern-day wolf-man prowling the woods of central England? (Something Sinister at a Cemetery) *** What compelled young priests in training to commit suicide in Room 2 of Ireland's national seminary? (The Ghost Room of Maynooth) *** An Oxford University professor claims aliens are already breeding with humans on earth – could he be right? (Are Aliens Breeding With Humans?) *** Is it possible that the Early Middle Ages, years 614-911 A.D. never existed? That's the claim of an extremely controversial theory. (The Phantom Time Hypothesis) *** A man is convinced his Swedish grandmother continues to look in on him, even years after her death. (The Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Title Story Preview and Show Open00:03:01.744 = The Question of Real Gremlins00:22:33.262 = Escape of the Kissing Bandit00:28:12.517 = Invisible Stalker00:32:40.944 = Secret Society of the Illuminati00:41:04.652 = Closet Criminal00:45:07.141 = O.J. Simpson: A Killer In The Family00:57:52.339 = The Assassination Curse01:06:29.829 = Something Sinister at a Cemetery01:13:45.582 = The Ghost Room of Maynooth01:18:46.531 = Are Aliens Breeding With Humans?01:23:05.829 = The Phantom Time Hypothesis01:28:55.041 = The Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter01:32:26.000 = Show CloseSOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…“Ware of the Worlds” episode of Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.com/?s=war+of+the+worldsAuthor of the gremlin poem used at the beginning of this episode is unknown, provided by the Royal Air Force Squadron 100. http://bit.ly/2LmlEiV“The Gremlin Question” by Hubert Griffith: http://bit.ly/2LmlEiV“Gremlins On The Attack” by Pastor Swope: http://bit.ly/2LnGs9G“Escape of the Kissing Bandit” by Troy Taylor: http://bit.ly/2LkGPSk“Invisible Stalker” by Gian Naoco: http://bit.ly/2Lg8Avo“Secret Society of the Illuminati” by Ellen Lloyd: http://bit.ly/2LlbIpY“Closet Criminal” by Marco Margaritoff: http://bit.ly/2LkIabO“O.J. Simpson: A Killer In The Family” posted at The Unredacted: http://bit.ly/2VBQdVO“Something Sinister at a Cemetery” by Nick Redfern: http://bit.ly/2PS3Rif“The Ghost Room of Maynooth” by Charlie Hintz: http://bit.ly/2JlTYIg“Are Aliens Breeding With Humans?” by Jon Rogers: http://bit.ly/2VQbJX0“The Phantom Time Hypothesis” by Ellen Lloyd: http://bit.ly/2DSqfDb“The Assassination Curse” by Troy Taylor: http://bit.ly/2VOzUVJ“The Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter” by Roy - posted at Your Ghost Stories: http://bit.ly/2H1s0PiWeird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library.= = = = =(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. 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A springtime adventure, recorded live for Maynooth University Student's Union on 7.2.24 Thanks to Keith from DnD Eire for the plot structure, all good bits are his and bad bits my own. Thanks to Emer McGinnity and John Spillane for being so great www.instagram.com/johnspillanecomedy/ Emer's not on the internet so much, go see a live show! Links for Dungeons and Naggins: linktr.ee/dungeonsandnaggins

An Ennis principal says he wants to see a secondary school admission process similar to what operates in the county town rolled out to south-east Clare. Education Minister Norma Foley has confirmed a centralised admission process for post-primary schools will be introduced in several high-pressure towns and suburbs for the 2025 school year. The system is already in place in Ennis and Limerick City where parents submit one form on which they indicate their preference of the local second-level schools instead of making individual applications. Ennis CBS Primary School Assistant Principal Colm Davoren says towns and villages on the Clare/Limerick border would benefit greatly from such a system. [CLIP] Additional first year places have been created for September in the likes of Greystones, Maynooth and Cellbridge, and it's believed these will be among the areas where a centralised admission process will be first introduced. Former INTO President and Corofin Fianna Fáil Councillor Joe Killeen believes the system is welcome as it ensures no child is left without a secondary school place.

A springtime adventure, recorded live for Maynooth University Student's Union on 7.2.24 Thanks to Keith from DnD Eire for the plot structure, all good bits are his and bad bits my own. Thanks to Emer McGinnity and John Spillane for being so great https://www.instagram.com/johnspillanecomedy/ Emer's not on the internet so much, go see a live show! Links for Dungeons and Naggins: linktr.ee/dungeonsandnaggins

Vanessa Conroy works for The National Women's Council of Ireland in addition to being a member of Community Work Ireland and a lecturer in Maynooth. Today she'll be talking about the research Feminist Communities for Climate Justice has done into the intersection of climate action and gender inequality in Ireland. You can follow her on X @miss_Nessa_C.As always, don't forget to follow Book of Leaves on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, leave us a review, and share with a friend xPatreon / Buy Me A Coffee[04:00] Vanessa introduces herself and journey into gender studies and climate action[12:10] How does climate change & climate action affect various genders in Ireland? Care[18:15] Transport & gender in Ireland[25:20] Solutions for transport barriers to caregivers[26:55] How other marginalised genders in Ireland are affected by climate change[33:00] What can regular citizens do help achieve system change in this area?[38:30] How the traveller community in Ireland is affected by climate change[43:45] Tips for engaging with people who are sceptical of gender inequality in Ireland[47:20] Advice for people who want to get involved with Feminist Communities for Climate Justice[50:45] Meal planning & climate cafés[54:20] Imagining the futureAlso mentioned:International Dublin Gay Theatre FestivalSinead MercierMary Robinson (Mothers of Invention)Book: Climate Justice – A Manmade Problem with a Feminist SolutionBook Feminist City by Leslie KernAmnesty InternationalCATU HousingCommunity Law & Mediation groupPavee PointPDF Report of research Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shownotes and Transcript Hermann Kelly, President of the Irish Freedom Party, shares insights on Irish politics and his background. He discusses growing up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, his journey from theology to journalism to politics, working with Nigel Farage in the European Parliament, and the challenges of the political sphere. Hermann outlines the Irish Freedom Party's principles of national sovereignty, anti-EU influence, pro-life stance, and traditional family values, criticizing mainstream parties on immigration. He emphasizes the importance of controlled borders, work permits, and prioritizing Irish citizens' welfare. Hermann addresses media bias, advocating for social media and grassroots efforts to connect with voters and counter leftist narratives. His vision for the party focuses on restoring national sovereignty, protecting Irish culture, and prioritizing Irish citizens in policy decisions. Originally from the Bogside in Derry, Hermann's family have a small farm in Donegal since he was a young. After attending St Columb's College in Derry, he studied marine biology in Edinburgh before studying theology as a lay student at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth.  First a secondary school teacher he then became a journalist, writing for various national newspapers including the Irish Mail on Sunday and Irish Examiner.  He was formerly director of communications for the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group in the European Parliament, and his since come to work with The European Conservatives and Reformists Group.  He is a founding member of The Irish Freedom Party and its current president.   Connect with Hermann and The Irish Freedom Party... X/TWITTER        x.com/hermannkelly                            x.com/IrexitFreedom WEBSITE            irishfreedom.ie/ Interview recorded 10.7.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... X/TWITTER        x.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE            heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS        heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA  heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP                  heartsofoak.org/shop/ *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com and follow him on X/Twitter x.com/TheBoschFawstin Transcript (Hearts of Oak) I'm delighted to be joined by someone whose name I have seen a lot back in my time in my UKIP days, and that's Hermann Kelly. Hermann, thank you so much for your time today. (Hermann Kelly) Great. Thank you very much for the invite, Peter. Great to be here. It's good to have you discuss all things Irish politics. You can obviously follow Herman @HermannKelly on Twitter. And Hermann, journalist, former UKIP's European Media Supremo, head of comms at the EFDD group in the European Parliament, Nigel Farage's press secretary, and all the fun that came back in those times, of course, as president of the Irish Freedom Party, launched in 2018 as a common-sense political party in Ireland, because Ireland lacked those, and we'll get into all of that. But, Hermann, you were born in the bog side. Christmas Day, you were born in the bog side in Derry, London Derry, Stroke City, which which is over there in Northern Ireland. It's known as a very rough area, like the Shanklin Falls, maybe in Belfast. What was it like growing up in an area like the Belfast? Well, it was only rough when I was growing up. It was a very friendly place, a very safe place, incredibly low crime rate. It was only rough if you were a British soldier. So there's bullet holes at the side of our house, the front of our house, on the wall opposite our house. There was a high banking behind our house. IRA used it as a shooting spot. And as the British Army jeeps went past the army checkpoint, out the road, they would get shot at. I've seen that many times. But if you were a local, it was incredibly safe, very low crime rate. And it had my followers headmaster of a large primary school in Cregan and Derry just up the hill from ourselves. and that had 75% male unemployment, so it was quite financially poor. But it was very friendly, very safe. And I must say, it was also highest per capita, donations per capita of any city or any town in what was politically the UK. So people were very kind, very generous. I didn't find it rough at all. It's interesting. Me growing up in Carrickfergus, that was absolutely fine because a lot of police lived there. So actually, it was monoculture, completely Protestant. You found it absolutely fine growing up in somewhere completely Catholic with no police or no army. It's interesting. We both grew up actually fairly safe childhoods. Interesting. But at kind of opposite ends of the scale in terms of that sectarian divide. Yeah. I suppose for where we were, it was a kind of high trust, low friction society. That's the whole thing about not being a multicultural society of a kind of melting pot or a kind of constant friction of people bumping off each other, metaphorically rather than physically. I mean. I always remembered very safe and certainly with the neighbours, very good people as neighbours, very, very lucky. And it shows the whole, the importance of common belief, nationality, and how it can lead to a very low-friction, high-trust society, which is easy to live in. What was it you kind of aspired to growing up? Because you went, you studied theology, you've been in media and journalism and politics. Kind of growing up, what were your thoughts of what the future may be? Well, obviously you can see with my, let's say, circuitous route of career that I didn't really know what I wanted to be when I was 18. And I remembered the agony of what I was going to fill in in the UCAS form to go to university right up to the last minute. And I started at optometry and then marine biology and then theology. I had always a great interest, developed a great interest in philosophy and then from that then theology and but I always had an abiding love interest because I grew up in day during the troubles, oh we always we were brought up with great interest in politics, interest in history in culture and also a great respect for language studied Irish studying English and a bit of French as well but the importance of language and all those things melded together my abiding interest in politics and history and culture and faith etc all those things and then also my respect for language and from that I eventually found my way to become a journalist and then a director of communication so in one way it was very circuitous but then it was when you look back it looked like a very straight path but the interest in politics and a respect for language and literature kind of have always remained with me. Well so how did you end up working with UKIP with the EFDD group in the European Parliament, was it an interest just in politics European Parliament and then later on you connected with the chaos and the fun that was UKIP or did that come first how did that happen? Well. I was actually, well, I'd previously been a teacher, I was working in Dublin and I think i became a teacher. I liked this idea of influence, influence on society to make the world a better place. And so it became a teacher then I realized that, well, where's the power to change society? Really? It's concentrated in the press, in the media. So it became a journalist. And then I think by that stage I had maybe four, five children and someone said to me one time if you can say you're a consultant you can charge twice as much, well journalism in Ireland didn't pay very much so I then was working as a press officer for Libertas in the European election 2009 for deacon gamley who were then a Eurosceptic party pat across Europe and I was so I was then recommended on foot of this by Declan Gamley to Nigel Farage. But previous to this, I had written an article for economic recovery in Ireland. Ireland needs to leave the euro. And I think Nigel Farage had seen this. It went up on UKIP website because it's unusual for people to advocate that in Ireland. And so he heard my name. And after I was recommended by Declan Gamley, he gave my call I said here let's meet up and I worked for Nigel Farage in Ireland it was the Lisbon 2 campaign of 2010 was it and 2010 and I sorry summer 2009 I worked for three months and after that just in Ireland he said come over work for me he was happy with the briefing he got and says here come over work for me full-time over in Brussels so as Ireland was absolutely going down the tubes and all these journalists were losing their jobs and losing their houses I thought well it's a good opportunity to take a well-paid and steady job, you know for the family. Definitely. I remember applying to work over there and after 10 months, they finally approved it and it was far too late and I had to produce documentation that didn't exist in the UK. It was just chaos. But I always heard your name, Hermann Kelly, always mentioned, just as I kept hearing Gawain Tyler's name mentioned over in the UK. And it seemed to me these two were the ones that understood, had their finger on the pulse, certainly in terms of medium press. I must say, I had great fun with UKIP MEPs. Like, I was working for the group, so it would have been probably 47 MEPs, seven different nationalities, I think. EFD group initially was about 42 MEPs, seven different nationalities. But the whole thing is you're meeting new people and people from different countries, different cultures, different experiences of life, pretty well-educated, pretty intelligent people, the whole lot. So it was very stimulating. It was good fun. It was important. I was committed to the work I was doing. I was philosophically committed to it. So I wanted to do a good job. and you know what you develop good relations with the people I was working with, so a number of the MEPs Nigel Farage, Paul Nuttall later guys like Ray Finch that I was very good friends with these people and also a number of staff Jamie Linsworth, Orly Leloup was chief of staff, you know we also became good friends not just colleagues working together in a political party. I remember going going for an interview with orally uh back in the days but it was all I guess the thing I found whenever I'd met a lot of the MEPs was they were real people and you kind of come across politicians that are too polished and that's all they've wanted to do the UKIP MEPs that actually lived their lives and then were doing this because they wanted to do something for their country, that's kind of rare these days in politics and that's what I love, that real but also sometimes a little bit of chaos, I mean you must have had some sleepless nights. Well one previous, Mark Kreutzer, a previous press officer said getting all the UKIP MEPs together. Was like, what was it, like herding cats, like, Yeah, see, to go against the stream, to go against the crowd or the mob, you have to have a quite individualistic contrarian streak to swim against that tide. So you must have that already to be happy to say to the establishment and the vast majority of the easy, instead of taking the easy path, you're taking the harder path and you're going against the tide. So you must have that contrarian and also quite self-confident streak to be able to do that so yeah it's a strength and a weakness, it's a strength in that people actually believe what they say and say what they believe, but it's difficult get them all in one room and get them all going singing off the same hymn sheet as you might say like you know but some great characters. I remember being here out in the front of the European Parliament here in the beer factory and was with a lot of MEPs and staff and turning around to Jamie Leansworth who was Nigel Farage's secretary at the time or advisor and saying, God, we have some characters here, huh? That's an understatement. You've got guys like Godfrey Bloom, and Mike Hookham and all these different guys and Stuart Agnew and they're all very strong characters strong personalities but it was great fun as well and like you you get to like these people as well it was never a dull, never a dull moment no never a dull moment and some of the carry on in among the foreign MEPs as well I remember, you you had MEPs from like Greece and Latvia sorry Lithuania etc et cetera, and you meet them and hear, but their histories are very different. Their experiences of life were very different. So to hear them talking about the importance of national sovereignty against a kind of federalist EU state, etc. They all have it for their own reasons and find it in their own experience. But I certainly was very committed to the job. I did my very best. And certainly reaching for the referendum in 2015, we strove very, very hard. We worked very hard to get a referendum and we worked hard then to get a result. So it was very pleasing for me personally and not just professionally but also personally to get to achieve a referendum 2015 and get a result in the Brexit referendum of 2016, so I was my wife always used to give off to me you love your job as an accusation, I said yeah what's wrong with that I do Yeah it's true it's good to love it, I want to get on the Irish politics but just last thing is is what was it like to be up, you're in the belly of the beast, you're up against the system, you're saying that, actually where we are standing here representing the UK, we are against everything that this institution, this parliament really wants, which is ever closer union, ever closer ties, control. And we want to be free from that. What was that like? Because no other countries have had a breakaway, exit groups, but actually none of them have achieved anywhere near what UKIP achieved, so what was that like as the major grouping there who actually wanted to get out of there, you would have had a lot of commonality I guess with individual MEPs but maybe not with parties, so there must be tension as well Oh yeah certainly in the second term with the EFDD group we there was a marriage of convenience we had with the five-star party and that wasn't a marriage made in heaven believe me uh so we were very Eurosceptic believed in national sovereign they wanted to leave the European union and we were sold a bit of a pup that they were kind of anti-establishment kind of Eurosceptic well the leaders were pepe grillo a guy david casaleggio certainly were quite rebellious and Eurosceptic But the MEPs who they voted in, where a lot of them had done Rasmus schemes and stuff like that, they're all very university-educated. They weren't Euro-sceptic at all. And that was a very difficult time, yes. There was quite a few arguments there. But, you know what? Personally, I would always have different relations with various people, across the political spectrum here in Brussels. I would regard it as bad form to be, disliking people because of their political views. But certainly, politically, Yeah, we were treated pretty abysmally by the institutions of the European Parliament here, who certainly after Brexit were incredibly vindictive and actually went on a witch hunt of MEPs. And I know, for example, that Paul Nuttall, his life was made a nightmare with constant meetings by this finance department with false accusations. And basically the refusal, how they treated some people was just unbelievable. Like one guy broke his arm. I know, for example, that they refused to pay the medical bills of a number of MEPs, which were 100% genuine, just out of malice. And they said, but you have to pay? That's the rules. Take us to court if you want. It's our court. This is the kind of stuff that would happen. and they refused to pay the staff of some MEPs. Asked why, we're not going to do it. If you want to, take it to court if you want. Remember, we control the court as well. So this was the attitude. So it really showed that centralisation of power in the hands of a small number of unaccountable elite is a very dangerous and stupid idea. No completely. Right, I want to get on to Irish politics. And everything that you've taught about, I guess, has given you a wide grasp of what is happening across, your wide grasp of that political side and added to your journalism skills and background. So you've got the Irish Freedom Party and Ireland is, as I mentioned earlier, I grew up with Gareth Fitzgerald and Charlie Hockey in the 80s in Ireland. Ireland was a very different place, although it still was Irish. So that was the benefit of it. Well, that bit's changed. But, and we'll get into Immigrate, but the Irish Freedom Party, tell us kind of where that came from, the idea and what it stands for. Because there was no party in Ireland looking for a sovereign, independent Ireland. You had Sinn Féin, who were basically, they were... They're implementing British rule in Ireland, but also they were happy to advocate Brussels' rule. So they're opposed to UK influence in Ireland, but they were completely happy that the majority of the laws which run in Ireland actually come originally from Brussels by people who we didn't elect and who we can't get rid of. So I believe in nation and nation-state and democratic self-determination. I believe that Irish people are good enough to make their own laws, to decide their own destiny in this world. I'm opposed to subservience to the European Union. The big problem over here in Brussels with the EU itself is what you call qualified majority voting, where Ireland, we're 1% of the EU population. So that means that the votes are voted on, 99% of the votes are done by people who are not Irish, and these laws can be approved and imposed upon us, and there's absolutely nothing we can do about it because we have disqualified majority voting in most of the areas. Many people do not realise that in areas of EU competence, EU law is superior to the Irishlaw, Irish Supreme Court, and the Irish Constitution. And that, for me, certainly is not a constitutional or democratic. Like a constitutional republic. That is a province of Brussels. It's a subservient province of Brussels, and that's not what the people were promised 100 years ago. So how did the party launch? It's been there since 2018, and I've looked at the Irish political scene from afar, and there wasn't anything which was common sense and seen. One Taoiseach after another just destroying Ireland. Yeah, there's this cultural like, it's funny because I was, we're talking about where we're both from, like, so growing up in the Brandywale, in the Lomar Road in Derry during the Troubles, I was brought up for all intents and purposes was a cultural superiority complex, that we were brought up that Irish poetry, Irish dance, Irish games and language and literature was fantastic. It was the best in the world and the world needed plenty of us. Go forth and procreate. We're wonderful, right? It then come down south and the experience is cultural self-loathing, which is very strong among the media class and the political class. And it's, well, where does this come from? And it wasn't just but this cultural self-loathing is very deep in south of Ireland at the minute at something to which I'm very implacably opposed and now we're trying to change the ship of state around, you know what, Irish culture is good Irish nation it's important what's the only one one we have, that Irish democracy, we must, seek that we are in democratic control of our destiny in this world, not to have laws dictated to us by someone else who we didn't vote for and we can't get rid of. But it's to do with a lot of things as well. Our catch cry is that we want free people in a free country. So it's not just like we want democratic control in Ireland to leave the European Union. And that the government in Dublin is going to dictate our lives, is that personal freedom, personal responsibility are very important. They're vital. We're standing up for things like the importance of free speech, for the right to not have the state dictate to you what you most put inside your body as a basic human right. The right to private property, that the state does not control your life, Even an Irish state doesn't control your life. So standing up for, I would describe these the basic building blocks of a liberal society. Of, as I said, free people in a free country, free speech, right to bodily autonomy, private property, lower government, less government waste, less government spending, lower taxation, the people be able themselves to make the decisions which control their own lives. So we started the party five years ago. We just now have had our first councillor elected in those last local elections. Glenn Moore and Clon Bakken will be running a large slate of candidates in the general election, which is likely to come about in October or November of this year. And I'm myself I ran as a candidate in the Midlands Northwest for the European election there just passed I ended up I got there was a huge huge number of candidates, 27 candidates in total, there were 13 nationalist candidates after Peter Casey the former presidential candidate I got the the highest is the highest vote of any nationalist I ended up with 21,000 votes and 3% of the vote. Considering there were 13 nationalist candidates in the field, I did very well. And actually, the person who was presented themselves as kind of a little bit conservative, socially conservative, nationalist. Eurosceptic, what do you call him, Keir Malooly from the Independent Ireland Party. What did they do? They got elected. And the first thing he did was come over to Brussels and join Renew, which is the Federalist fanatic group, with a complete and utter betrayal by the party of all those voters who voted for him. So I only wish he had told the voters before the election that he was going to join the Federalist group in the European Parliament rather than after, because I think my vote would have increased dramatically. Well, Ireland are getting some of the policies, but Ireland seems to have been slow to move away from that. You had Fianna Gael, Fianna Fáil, you've always had them with a dose of Labour in there. Then obviously you've had the rise of Sinn Féin. But Ireland seems to have been slow to move away from that group of parties. And Sinn Féin have been around a long time as well. They're not a new party. Tell me what that's like in moving to new parties and getting the message out. It's a tough sell, actually, putting something new out in the Irish political sphere and getting the message out in the media. Absolutely, because historically, I was very slow to support new parties. Most of the successful political parties are split off from actually Sinn Féin from 1905 and onwards. We have Sinn Féin then split into Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael and then Plan the Public. I believe all the parties are a break off of Sinn Féin bar the Green Party, if that is correct. And Sinn Féin well for example but even Fianna Fáil used to be Fianna Fáil, the Republican Party, they believed in National Democratic since they pushed to join the Common Market in 1973 and then it was still Sinn Féin policy to leave the Common Market or the European Community, whatever you called it, certainly up until the late 80s so we're basically.... Look, the Proclamation of Independence in 1916 talked about the Irish people having the right, and even says, also in the Irish Constitution of 1937, about the sovereignty and independence of Ireland should be protected for the good of the Irish nation. And that's what we're seeking for. All we're looking to do is to be a normal, self-governing country where we make our own laws for the benefit of the Irish people. That's all. We're not looking for anything new, crazy, or fandangled thing. But Sinn Féin have changed dramatically. They're now a European Unionist party. I call them a Euro-Loyalist party. I'm sure they hate it, but I love it. You know the reasons why. Oh yeah, I call Sinn Féin immigration party. It does make me laugh that they hate it as well. The Sinn Féin immigration party is Brits out everybody else in. Drives them mad. I saw in your Wikipedia entry you'd used the term abort and import, which I also loved as well. I say the Sinn Féin immigration policy is Brits out to everybody else, and the Fine Gael immigration policy is abort and import. And it actually works perfectly in all the romance languages, French and Spanish Spanish, et cetera. It all works perfectly in those, because I was telling someone over here at dinner one evening, I said, oh, that's really good in French too. That's fantastic. I always use as few words as possible to pack as much power into as little space as possible. That's my job as a press officer, was always to take complex ideas and crunch them down or boil them down into some in as few words as possible with as much power and impact, both political and emotional impact on people as it can. So that's a typical few examples of Hermanism, so to speak, like to boil down complex ideas. The simple language, because my job as press officer was always to get words or formula words that people understand, they can easily understand, easily remember. I always scratch my head looking at Ireland originally used to be one of the strongest Catholic countries, most staunchly Christian Catholic countries in Europe. And yet you've had their political representatives have not gone along with any Catholic belief. You look at Sinn Féin, you look at the North SDLP, everything about them has been more the self-hatred woke agenda and nothing about what actually the church would teach. And I often wonder if I was going to mass each Sunday, actually politically, who would I vote for? Where Northern Ireland, the DUP, who generally were socially conservative. And for the Catholic side, there was no one socially conservative ever to vote for. Absolutely. Well, certainly, yeah, in the last 20 years, you had to, I think a large part of it was self-inflicted by Vatican II about the self-loathing that anything came before 1965 was bad, was supposed to be forgotten, to be rejected. And that the new year zero, so to speak, the second Vatican Council ended, I think, 1968 or 69, that everything after that was okay. And it's all Libby-friendly. That was great. great, but no, in the Irish context, even up in the North, which was normally more conservative, people were more, let's say, conscious and proud of being Christian and being Catholic, part of their identity, national identity, religious identity. Down south, completely the opposite, where people that, because the power of the media, that you had Sinn Féin, the Workers' Party in the 70s and 80s, a very... They started off as nationalists that became internationalists and then became very a Marxist party, basically very anti-Christian and I believe that had a very, the leader's effect on the culture of Ireland because there were so many of them got into the media and had a big big impact, but ourselves, we are happy and proud to, when we are not a kind of confessional party, you don't have to be a Catholic to join the Irish Freedom Party. But we've made it very clear from day one that we are a pro-life party and we are pro-family, that we believe we want to protect and augment the foundations of civilisation. So where cultural Marxism wants to destroy the nation state. National sovereignty, the nation state wants to destroy the family, even down to the distinctions of male and female. We want to counteract that. So we were against this trans ideology. We'll stand up for the distinction and common complementarity of man and a woman. We approve family. We want to encourage people to have children, to educate their children in their culture. It is then with education develops culture and a civilization. And we believe that we also believe in the nation state and in national democracy. So like, but all this stuff about. It's very hard to have a functioning successful civilization where the family is not at the centre of it and faith is a very important, Christian faith you acknowledge not only acknowledge Christian faith as a historical origin but also as a living thing in Ireland. And I must say that compared to the Libby Dibbies in Ireland, you'll find that a large swathe of nationalists, they're not practicing Catholics and Christians, they're certainly culturally so. And they're very proud of that. Because when they look around and they see that here we have, They have 10,000 abortions, 10,000 Irish children being killed in the womb last year in Ireland. Our birth rate is now 1.5, just over 1.5 children per woman. A few generations of that, the population of Ireland shrinks to filial. So we are in favour of liberty and of life. So we would like to encourage people to get married, to have children, to start a family. So we advocate as a pro-natalist, pro-family party, but also advocate policies like we have already. And they've successfully implemented in Hungary to adjust the tax system to help young couples to have kids. And that, for example, if a couple have three or four children, that they don't pay tax and that they don't encourage young couples to have children because no country has a future without children. And that's a basic fact because demographics is destiny. That is a universal truth all across the world and every time in every culture. So we want to encourage the people to have children and also then provide the basics all of them. So I was talking last night on a space and I was talking about the importance of, we are not looking for we're just looking for the ability for people to grow up in a safe environment, and then when they leave school that they have the ability to get a job. Find someone who's only got married to be able to buy a house because at the minute, because of mass immigration, high house prices, young people cannot buy a house and they're all emigrating. A massive problem in Ireland isn't just immigration into Ireland, it's also emigration. We are importing a huge number of people into Ireland. We don't know who, in many cases, we don't know who they are, where they're from, do they have a criminal record. That is detrimental to the security of our country because it leads to an increased crime rate, et cetera. At the same time, because our young people cannot, in many cases, find an apartment to rent, certainly not a house to buy, which they cannot afford anyway. So what are they doing? They're emigrating to Australia and Canada. And that's. Well that's the definition of a failed state isn't it, where you can even provide a job in a house for young people and they're emigrating so that is a failed state, so we as people actually are pretty upset how the country that they love being destroyed before their eyes and, but we will instead of personal darkness we would like to put out a light and do something about it, soI said, we're putting out candidates in the general election. We will keep on standing. Nigel Farage, he just got elected there during the week. It was his eighth time of standing for the Houses of Parliament. And I've only stood twice in the European election. That'd be my first time standing as a TD seat. So we're in the infancy of the Irish Freedom Party. But I am certain that in the years ahead, we will have a large impact. And we're already having an impact. because you saw there in that European election, Sinn Féin did very poorly. Their vote fell, now last October, their vote in the polls was 35%. It's now 18%. And in the European election, their vote fell by 12.5%. A general nationalist sway was 12.5%. So that vote, I would suspect, or I would argue, went from Sinn Féin to a smog spore of nationalist candidates. It was like a plunder boss into a mattress and that vote went everywhere to so many different national candidates, 3,000 here, 3,500 there, maybe 21,000 people like me, but that the. That Sinn Féin vote did not go to Fine Gael. It went to generalist nationalist candidates. So we're having an impact on the narrative, on the discussion of the EU migration pact, on the anti-free speech laws that they're trying to introduce in Ireland, about the whole thing about housing availability, etc. We're having an impact on the political discussion in Ireland already. Ready and I would hope and expect that that increases in the years going forward. I want to pick an immigration but let me just touch on the family, because when you look at Hungary and their pro-family and pro-life policies and there are parties you look at Italy and Greece and there are it's a pro-family nation still pro-family culture and a pro-life generally. But many parties, I know Reform will maybe talk a bit about pro-family, but pro-life, you know, that's up to the individual. But I can't imagine kids growing up thinking, you know, when I get older, someday I'd love to have an abortion. It shouldn't be the main option. There has to be a range of options of adoption, of other ideas. And it seems as though especially young girls are pushed down this avenue and this is the only option and I mean I got a lot of respect for you as a party, not only being pro-family but actually pro-life because that's a completely common sense response to what we are facing. Yeah well I was actually attended the rally for life, on in Dublin there on Saturday there's a very big crowd at it and there was a number of members and candidates for the Irish freedom party were there the Irish freedom party banner and the a number of national flags as well to show that we're proud to stand up for life and so well sure, how can you talk about human rights when you don't If you do not defend the right to life, if you don't defend the right to exist. How can you talk about the right to free speech, the right to private property, the right to this and that? It's a nonsense. And on the counter to that, if you accept that you can wipe out and destroy and butcher innocent human life, if you accept that principle, well, the next thing you're then on to logical consequence of accepting that principle. Is you're then you extended over time and you're then in favor of euthanasia of old people and then your euthanasia of people who are physically handicapped in some way or then people who are depressed and then you're straight on the 100% healthy people who there's nothing wrong with them and then you're straight on to murder, murder of innocent people who have I've never done anything wrong, and there's nothing wrong with them. So it's philosophically to accept the principle that it's okay to destroy human life. I will never accept it. Because you're on the slippery slope of a culture which advocates killing. Killing of its young, it's innocent. Then it's then killing old people, then sick people, and then healthy people. And that is that this two cities as Saint Augustine might say and the culture of life and the cultural death are extremely different and the consequences of a slight change in principle, like it's like coming up to a roundabout in a car and you're going around and you take one direction and as you follow out along that road that you've taken you can go in a very you end up in a very different destination if you take another turn off and you follow that path, for a number of miles. So be very careful. So that's why we've been very clear from day one that this is a pro-life party and we're also pro-family and we support a cultural life, not a culture of death. I want to finish on immigration because it's very strange for Ireland because Ireland have so much influence worldwide and the Irish culture is known throughout, probably because of the potato famine, because of that mass migration that's meant there is Irishness everywhere, certainly in the US and you travel all over Europe and wider and you'll certainly find Irish pubs, people flock to that. That desire and likability and connection and respect for Irish culture and intrigue, all of that, that kind of seemed to be disappearing. I'm surprised the mass immigration, but the change that's brought to Ireland, considering Irishness is known, despite Ireland being a tiny country, its impact culturally is very wide all over the world. But yet successive governments have allowed absolute mass immigration on a scale I don't think anyone else has seen in Europe for such a country that size. How has that affected voters and the public? Because if you keep voting the same way, you're just going to get the same change in Ireland and decimation of Irishness. All the main parties in Ireland, Fianna Fáil, Fianna Gael, Sinn Féin, Labour Party, all the left are all in favour of what pretty much amounts to open borders, mass immigration. Now the consequences of that at the moment is that the Irish population since 1995 has gone up by over 1.5 million people, gone from 3.5 to 5.3 million people. That's a 42% percent increase in a very short period of time. And Ireland actually is the fastest increasing we see in Europe. In the Western world, actually, Ireland has the fastest increase of population through immigration of any country in the world, bar none. So what is happening, I would describe it as the new colonization of Ireland, because the numbers coming in here is so large. Like when we started off the party five years ago, I believe 12% of the population were non-national. It's now 22%. So there's been a 10% increase in the non-national part of our population within five years. That's immense. And actually, Grip Media did an analysis of the rate of influx of immigration into Ireland. And they worked out that if the current rate continues, what has happened over the last five years, As that continues, Irish people will be a minority in their own country by the year 2050. And I don't know about you, but I certainly wasn't asked about that. I didn't give my consent. So we describe what's happened now as the colonization without consent. And all we're looking for is to be a normal country, which has borders, which controls for the good of its people, the numbers of people and the qualifications of the people who are coming in, that they make sure that one, do we need to and two, if you want to come in you have got to contribute to our society and so for example you've got skills that you can that you can contribute and you're not a kind of tax, like don't be coming in here looking for free housing, free welfare, free medical care, like you come in, you work you support yourself and when [I very much believe in the work permit system. You come in, you work, you pay tax. And after that, after picking up, working, being paid, getting experience, having a good time, you then go back to your country of origin or go on to the next country, wherever you like. But I believe that because taking in large numbers of unvetted males into the country makes Ireland a less secure place. And like, for example, in 2022, there were 12 women were murdered in Ireland. Five of those were murdered by non-nationals. So there's been a swathe of increase in rapes and sexual assault in Ireland, as has happened all across Europe, be it in Germany, be it in Italy, be it in Sweden and France. So we should stop being naive and thinking that, oh, but it will never happen in Ireland because everybody loves us. They may do, but the consequences of mass unvetted immigration into Ireland are not very positive for Ireland at the minute. So all we're looking for is to be a normal country which controls its borders for the good of its own people. Because we want our young people, as I said earlier, to be able to get a job, be able to find a house and live in a secure area without any fear. And that's what people see, the destruction of their country, the mass immigration, and of course the destruction of the family. How do you, I mean, someone who understands the media so well, how do you get your message out? You've got a block on the mainstream media. Is it looking for alternative media, going directly to individuals, to the voters? How do you kind of get around that block which exists in Ireland to stop your message of common sense getting out? Well, you're completely true. The mainstream media, and when I say mainstream, it's funny because in regards, for example, that issue of are people in favour of mass immigration, 75% of people in Ireland are completely opposed to more migration. They believe Ireland has more than had enough. So that is the mainstream position. It's the extreme leftist position of open borders. They are the extremists. They are the minority. But the thing is, these leftists do control the media. And so we find it very difficult if not impossible to get anything positive out in the Irish media, so we're using social media at the minute and during the European elections was a good boost because the local papers had to talk about us, talk to our candidates, the write-ups of the candidates was almost universally positive on local radio, there were debates, so we got the name and the candidates of the party out there in open debate. We were discussing our policies in a fair environment for the first time, but the national media blocked us completely. So basically, we're pretty much using social media and also boots on the ground to get out meeting people, canvassing is very, very important. Well, Hermann, I really do appreciate your time. Hermann Kelly, President of the Irish Freedom Party, bringing common sense and an option to the voters that traditionally up to now really have not had any. So Hermann, thank you so much for joining us and giving us an overview, not only of Irish Freedom Party, but the difficulty and issues you're facing there in Ireland. Thank you very much, Peter.

Damhnait Uí Ruairc is a former principal and now chair of Board of Management of Gaelscoil Ruarí in Maynooth in County Kildare

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(Escape of the Kissing Bandit) *** A college student reads about how his college is haunted – which might explain the strange goings-on in his dorm room. (Invisible Stalker) *** Greensboro student Maddie thought her apartment might be haunted when clothes vanished and noises came out of nowhere. The truth was even more terrifying. (Closet Criminal) *** Is it possible that OJ Simpson's son Jason was the true killer of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown? (O.J. Simpson: A Killer In The Family) *** What compelled young priests in training to commit suicide in Room 2 of Ireland's national seminary? (The Ghost Room of Maynooth) *** An Oxford University professor claims aliens are already breeding with humans on earth – could he be right? (Are Aliens Breeding With Humans?) *** After murdering his wife and attempting to kill his children, then unsuccessfully trying to kill himself, Henry Rathbone claimed it was all due to a curse he believed he brought onto himself – which began at the death of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. (The Assassination Curse) *** Is it possible that the Early Middle Ages, years 614-911 A.D. never existed? That's the claim of an extremely controversial theory. (The Phantom Time Hypothesis) *** A man is convinced his Swedish grandmother continues to look in on him, even years after her death. (The Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter)YOUTUBE CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS…00:00:00.000 = Title Story Preview and Show Open00:03:53.314 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “House Where Death Lives” (November 07, 1944)00:17:49.961 = Weird Darkness, “Gremlins On The Attack”00:26:50.010 = Dreadful John at Midnight, “Ghost Hunt” (Air Date Unknown)00:43:21.036 = Weird Darkness, “The Gremlin Question, Part 1”00:50:37.839 = Drop Dead (Air Date Unknown)01:28:17.713 = Weird Darkness, “The Gremlin Question, Part 2”01:32:51.309 = Weird Darkness, “Secret Society of the Illuminati”01:40:38.748 = Eleventh Hour, “Truckload of Nitro” (Air Date Unknown)02:09:13.207 = Weird Darkness, “Something Sinister at a Cemetery”02:16:38.580 = Escape, “The Man Who Would Be King” (July 07, 1947)02:47:07.882 = Weird Darkness, “Escape of the Kissing Bandit”02:54:11.257 = Murder By Experts, “It's Luck That Counts” (August 29, 1949)03:24:29.840 = Weird Darkness, “Invisible Stalker”03:29:00.676 = Weird Darkness, “Closet Criminal”03:33:57.920 = Exploring Tomorrow, “Desert Object” (December 25, 1957)03:54:00.870 = Weird Darkness, “O.J. Simpson: A Killer In The Family”04:06:39.123 = Five After The Hour, “Man Around The House” (June 13, 1945)04:32:11.605 = Weird Darkness, “The Ghost Room of Maynooth”04:40:13.039 = Hall of Fantasy, “Markheim” (April 24, 1947)05:07:35.976 = Weird Darkness, “The Assassination Curse”05:12:22.611 = Weird Darkness, “The Phantom Time Hypothesis”05:17:10.630 = Weird Darkness, “The Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter”05:21:02.116 = Haunted, Tales of the Supernatural, “What Was It?” (June 28, 1980)05:48:35.413 = Show CloseSOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…Author of the gremlin poem used at the beginning of this episode is unknown, provided by the Royal Air Force Squadron 100: http://bit.ly/2LmlEiV“The Gremlin Question” by Hubert Griffith: http://bit.ly/2LmlEiV“Gremlins On The Attack” by Pastor Swope: http://bit.ly/2LnGs9G“Secret Society of the Illuminati” by Ellen Lloyd: http://bit.ly/2LlbIpY“Something Sinister at a Cemetery” by Nick Redfern: http://bit.ly/2PS3Rif“Escape of the Kissing Bandit” by Troy Taylor: http://bit.ly/2LkGPSk“Invisible Stalker” by Gian Naoco: http://bit.ly/2Lg8Avo“Closet Criminal” by Marco Margaritoff: http://bit.ly/2LkIabO“O.J. Simpson: A Killer In The Family” from The Unredacted: http://bit.ly/2VBQdVO“The Ghost Room of Maynooth” by Charlie Hintz: http://bit.ly/2JlTYIg“Are Aliens Breeding With Humans?” by Jon Rogers: http://bit.ly/2VQbJX0“The Assassination Curse” by Troy Taylor: http://bit.ly/2VOzUVJ“The Phantom Time Hypothesis” by Ellen Lloyd: http://bit.ly/2DSqfDb“The Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter” by Roy from Your Ghost Stories: http://bit.ly/2H1s0PiWeird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. = = = = =(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. 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A vision for a technologically and digitally enabled future for the Irish co-operative agrifood sector, with the skills of human beings remaining integrally engaged, was presented today at the final conference of the LeadFarm 5.0 project, held in Maynooth, Co. Kildare. The conference was opened by the Minister of State for Skills and Further Education, Niall Collins TD. The initiative started in May 2022 spearheaded by ICOS Skillnet in collaboration with Léargas and supported by the EU Erasmus+ programme. In the future, advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics and big data will be integrated into all aspects of daily life. This integration aims to solve social challenges, improve quality of life and enhance the success of enterprises. The LeadFarm project focused on developing a competency framework and roadmap for Irish agrifood co-operatives to transition the skills of their people towards 'Society 5.0' or the 'super-intelligent society'. It has been a collaborative effort involving a broad and diverse range of co-operatives including management, farmers and workers from Ireland, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Latvia and Portugal. A training curriculum emerging from the project emphasises human skills acquisition in areas such as digitalisation, sustainability, management and entrepreneurship while highlighting the potential to balance digital advancements with human-robot collaboration. The approach aims to improve employment opportunities and skills in rural Ireland, creating a sustainable future for the industry. Minister Niall Collins TD said: "I congratulate the ICOS Skillnet for taking proactive steps to clarify the competencies required for the adoption of digital innovation by agri-food cooperatives. Initiatives like this ensure that Ireland shapes its future rather than simply respond to technological change ". ICOS President Edward Carr said: "The purpose of this conference is to disseminate the outcomes of the LeadFarm 5.0 project to as many stakeholders as possible. It outlines the good work carried out by this pan-European initiative and showcases the benefits to cooperatives and farmers across Europe. "ICOS is the lead partner in this project. This is with the specific aim to support various stakeholders, including co-operatives, social enterprises, boards of directors, farmers, trainers, and educators, with a particular focus on those at risk of exclusion, such as youth and women. "The concept is about ensuring the long-term sustainability of the industry through skill and talent development. We are focused on creating a more digitally aware society that will be human-centred and will take advantage of technology to tackle problems that affect the whole of society as well as our own industry. "The agri-food co-operative sector must participate, join this trend, and support the creation of a society which is aware and committed to the problems it faces, avoiding becoming a sector that remains a trace of the technological past." International collaboration and engagement of the lead partners from seven countries has fostered international collaboration and the exchange of best practices. All intellectual outputs have been secured for practical application within Ireland, ensuring the Irish agrifood sector can be aware and prepared for significant technological advancements. Minister Niall Collins acknowledged the importance of the project's achievements and the promotion of future success for Irish cooperative enterprises within the framework of Society 5.0. Further Background: LeadFarm 5.0 arises from the need to improve the knowledge, capacities and skills of European agri-food co-operatives regarding the use of digital innovations that can be easily adapted to new agricultural models that will largely replace the intensive industrial farming model and that will require changes in business decision-making processes. Agrifood co-operatives need to impr...

(00:00:45) Pour aider l'Ukraine, les leaders du G7 décident d'utiliser les intérêts des avoirs russes gelés (00:05:30) Les dessous de l'alignement Pékin-Moscou (00:10:10) Comment la Russie présente et justifie sa guerre au moyen de la propagande (00:15:25) Maynooth, en Irlande, une ville modèle d'inclusion pour les personnes autistes

Discover the world of the Ogham script, an ancient form of writing developed by the Celts in Ireland during the early centuries CE. Characterized by linear strokes carved into stone and wood, Ogham is one of Ireland's earliest known alphabets. In this video, we explore its historical origins, cultural significance, and modern interpretations within Paganism. We'll tackle: * The scholarly debate on Ogham's origins and its development. * The significance of Ogham inscriptions found across Ireland and the British Isles. * The role of the Book of Ballymote in preserving Ogham knowledge. * The modern neo-pagan practice of Ogham divination and its tree associations. CONNECT & SUPPORT

Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has announced the opening of its new Ireland corporate headquarters in Citywest, Dublin, after relocating staff and operations from its offices in Maynooth, Co. Kildare. The new office space was selected because the power supply to the building is 100% electric, in line with the company's global policy to use all-electric sites and reduce dependency on fossil fuels. Smart digital monitoring tools that control temperature and lightingin the office based on occupancy will cut energy waste to create a sustainable workspace. The new office space is equipped with the latest smart building controls and management systems to ensure maximum comfort for the occupants, while always maintaining energy efficiency. This is achieved using a network of integrated sensors that collect data, which is fed into a building management system (BMS) that controls lighting, heating and air conditioning. Using data and analytics, the BMS adjusts energy use for temperature and lighting to suit the number of occupants and create a healthy indoor environment. The hybrid office workspace has capacity for up to 70 plus occupants and includes 32 separate workstations, plus meeting rooms with the latest digital conferencing facilities. A digital desk booking system is integrated directly with the BMS to update the number of occupants in the building. The Citywest location places Schneider Electric closer to its corporate customers, and the company will use the site to showcase its products and solutions. Schneider Electric has installed its own Energy Management Solutions at the Citywest site to ensure the workspace is more sustainable, efficient and people-centric. This includes the EcoStruxure Power Monitoring Expert solution, that provides visibility of the site's electrical systems and energy consumption to help make informed decisions to improve the building's performance. The site's BMS is supported by the EcoStruxure Building Operation solution, to help the Citywest site achieve sustainability targets, improve occupant experience and lower its operating costs. The office is also equipped with a smart building security system supported by the EcoStruxure Security Expert solution, to enhance building safety. The integrated control and intrusion detection solution unifies building security with the BMS. It's also part of an integrated network that connects the Citywest site to Schneider Electric's larger facility in Galway, linking building operations to ensure around the clock management and maintenance, delivered remotely by a team of dedicated technical experts. Speaking at the opening of the new offices, Chris Collins, Country President Ireland, Schneider Electric, said: "Expectations of buildings today have changed. They need to be smarter and more sustainable. Our integrated solutions have enabled us to deliver a comfortable and energy efficient working environment for our staff. The location appealed to us because it allows us to maintain our commitment to sustainability and inhabit all-electric buildings. "But it's also closer to our customers in the ICT and Life Sciences sectors that are leading decarbonisation efforts across their facilities in Ireland. We intend to showcase our latest products onsite, but we can also showcase the site itself as a model of how intelligent management systems can improve the performance of a building. It will demonstrate how organisations can prioritise energy efficiency and reduce their carbon footprint." See more stories here.

It seems that Ogham has made a comeback with it recently showing up in a Coventry Garden, and also on Eurovision entrant Bambie Thug in Sweden. But what exactly is Ogham, and why is it being used again? Joining Seán to explain is Professor David Stifter, Professor for Old and Middle Irish in Maynooth and currently working on the Digitisation of Ogham project ‘Ogham in 3D'. Image: Florian Thiery

Maynooth-based Brazilian composer, Victor Lazzarini has some suggestions for your weekend treats in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling

This week on Outdoor Journal Radio, Ang and Pete are joined by Fish'n Canada's own Rick Dolishny for a walk down memory lane and a look inside a new venture that will change the way anglers look at accommodations.First, however, a bit of housekeeping was in order. Topics discussed included: cracking the code on our new look; Party Marty; why we don't spend enough time in Manitoba; Maple Syrup season; real poaching charges; abusing the fisheries act; losing a $60,000 fish; and stolen trailers.With those matters out of the way, Rick joins the show from a virtual, Maynooth yurt! Topics discussed included: how kitty litter became the Outdoor Journal logo; animation's role on a fishing show; Mallard mating calls; the Piranhas of Lake Simcoe; letters from Pixar; Rick's introduction to the road; hot wiring boats; yurts; invisible cottages; and much more!To never miss an episode of Outdoor Journal Radio, be sure to like, subscribe, and leave a review on your favourite podcast app!More from Angelo and Pete:► WEBSITE► FACEBOOK► INSTAGRAM► YOUTUBEMore from Rick and Maynooth Station Lodge: ► WEBSITE► TIK TOK► INSTAGRAMThank you to today's sponsors!Invasive Species Centre - Protecting Canada's land and water from invasive speciesColeman Canada - The Outside is Calling, Answer the Call.CANADIAN ANGLERS: Outdoor Journal Radio and the Invasive Species Centre are looking for your help in getting information about our invasive Goldfish population. Fill out the quick survey to help us keep our waters safe from invasive species!COME SEE US AT THE TORONTO SPORTSMEN'S SHOW!This year, at the International Centre, the entire Outdoor Journal Radio and Fish'n Canada crew will be on-site, meeting listeners and doing live podcasts from our booth.  Tickets are on sale now and listeners of our show can get 15% off by using the link below:https://secure.masterpromotions.ca/tickets/?event=100050&fishncanada

Professor David Malone, Mathematics Department of University of Maynooth

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Grainne Duffy was born in Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, Ireland and raised in a family of seven. As a schoolgirl she sang in her local choir and also in a family band with her sisters. The band was bred from their love of music, which Duffy accredits to her mother. Not having a television in their home when they were young, her mother instead allowed them to own a family record player, on which they all were encouraged to get a record on their individual birthday's and Christmas. This broadened their interest in music and they began listening to artists such as Aretha Franklin, The Pretenders and The Rolling Stones. Around that time Grainne discovered Fleetwood Mac and the blues playing of Peter Green, whom she cites as one her main guitar influences. Previous to her solo career Grainne Duffy obtained a degree in music at NUI, Maynooth, Ireland and took part in session work singing with various bands across Italy and France.https://www.grainneduffy.com/Thanks for listening for more information or to listen to other podcasts or watch YouTube videos click on this link >https://thetroutshow.com/

This lecture was given on March 29, 2023 at Trinity College Dublin. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Gaven Kerr is a married father of three and a third order Dominican. He has degrees in scholastic philosophy and philosophy from Queen's University Belfast: BA, MPhil, and PhD. His doctoral research was on the thought of Thomas Aquinas and Immanuel Kant. Gaven's research focuses on the thought of St Thomas Aquinas and his connection with other important thinkers in the history of philosophy and theology. He has published articles in the Thomist, the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, International Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Philosophical Research, Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society. Gaven has two books with Oxford University Press. The first was published in 2015, Aquinas's Way to God, and it dealt with Aquinas's proof of God in the De Ente et Essentia. His second book which is due out later this year is on Aquinas and the metaphysics of creation. Gaven has taught philosophy at Queen's University Belfast, St. Malachy's Seminary Belfast, and Maynooth University. He has taught theology at Mary Immaculate College Limerick. He currently teaches philosophy at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth.

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Like an episode of the Twilight Zone, a Qantas flight had to make an emergency landing when a hole appeared seemingly out of nowhere, puncturing in the fuselage and causing the cabin to suddenly lose pressure. Could it truly be possible that gremlins are to blame? (Gremlins On The Attack) *** We'll also hear from a former member of the Royal Air Force with his own thoughts and research about gremlins. (The Gremlin Question) *** They worked in great secrecy. Their goal was to create a society without a King and Church. They were the Illuminati… but do they still exist? (Secret Society of the Illuminati) *** Is a modern-day wolf-man prowling the woods of central England? (Something Sinister at a Cemetery)SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…Author of the gremlin poem used at the beginning of this episode is unknown, provided by the Royal Air Force Squadron 100: http://bit.ly/2LmlEiV “The Gremlin Question” by Hubert Griffith: http://bit.ly/2LmlEiV “Gremlins On The Attack” by Pastor Swope: http://bit.ly/2LnGs9G “Secret Society of the Illuminati” by Ellen Lloyd: http://bit.ly/2LlbIpY “Something Sinister at a Cemetery” by Nick Redfern: http://bit.ly/2PS3Rif = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: After murdering his wife and attempting to kill his children, then unsuccessfully trying to kill himself, Henry Rathbone claimed it was all due to a curse he believed he brought onto himself – which began at the death of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. (The Assassination Curse) *** Is it possible that the Early Middle Ages, years 614-911 A.D. never existed? That's the claim of an extremely controversial theory. (The Phantom Time Hypothesis) *** A man is convinced his Swedish grandmother continues to look in on him, even years after her death. (The Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter)SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…“The Assassination Curse” by Troy Taylor: http://bit.ly/2VOzUVJ “The Phantom Time Hypothesis” by Ellen Lloyd: http://bit.ly/2DSqfDb “The Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter” by Roy from Your Ghost Stories: http://bit.ly/2H1s0Pi = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. Background music, varying by episode, provided by Alibi Music, EpidemicSound and/or AudioBlocks with paid license. Music from Shadows Symphony: https://tinyurl.com/yyrv987t, Midnight Syndicate: http://amzn.to/2BYCoXZ, Kevin MacLeod: https://tinyurl.com/y2v7fgbu, Tony Longworth: https://tinyurl.com/y2nhnbt7, and/or Nicolas Gasparini/Myuu: https://tinyurl.com/lnqpfs8 is used with permission. 

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