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Old Farming Ways – Episode 1 – Old Machinery

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Old Farming Ways is a new series presented by Adrian O’ Connor. In Episode 1, ‘Old Machinery’ The hay car, or hay boggie, was used to bring in the hay from the fields. The trams of hay were winched on board using ropes and a ratchet system. Adrian chats with his uncle Bernie about those days when all the work on the land was done by horse drawn machines like the Hay Rake. The hay rake collected, or raked up, the hay in order to make ‘hay Trams’ in the fields. Bernie explains how a tumbling paddy worked.

Paulines Poems

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What better way to unwind than to join the Craol 2018 award winning show with Pauline Skehan and friends for poetry, chat and song. An accomplished poet, Pauline and Rob are joined by Frances Daly,Julia Wright.

Community Unity featuring guests Sharon Malone ,Linda Hebenstrait ,Jon Heddon ,Carmel Shaw.

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A Packed show today covering some of the Heritage Week events happening around the county, we start off close to home, marking the 170th Anniversary (Full itinerary below) of The Loop Head Lighthouse , Sharon Malone speaks to Teresa about the celebrations upcoming for this Sunday 25th Aug. from 12:30 pm – 4:00 pm.
Padraig speaks to beachcomber and author Linda Hebenstrait about the Beaches of County Clare and her new book. Linda will be hosting Banner Tea Times on 25th 2-3pm Banner Books Ennistymon.
John Heddon is on the line to speak about the Ennistymon Book Town Festival where pop up shops around the town are to be filled with books from booksellers far and wide over the weekend of Saturday/Sunday 31st August and 1st September.

Carmel Shaw, head tour guide at the Ennis Friary who are offering free tour of the Friary during Heritage Week, and have also developed a touring route of 7 friaries and monastaries around the west, through Galway, Clare and Kerry. Free tour as part of Heritage week on the 23rd August , please ring for availability on 065-6829100. Heritageweek.ie
Presented by Teresa, Chris and Padraig.


A Little Bit of Gardening – History of Gardening

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Our gardens are extensions of our homes, a space where we can relax and spend time amongst our chosen plants and creative settings. But where did it all begin? How did our gardening skills develop to become the gardens we know today? So that is what I thought we could look at today, the History of Gardening……
Tune in at 7.30pm on Monday, or 5.30pm every Wednesday.

RCB Sports Show

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In this weeks RCB Sport Show we celebrate a kilkee man, Yan Tysmbal who won the Clare County Cycling Road Race Championship in Kilfenora last week and WCCC rider Deirdre Hynes who won the ladies race. Adrian chats with West Clare Cycling Club Chairman, Gary Kiely on the clubs success and this months West Clare Challenge cycle event held in Kilkee. Adrian gives us all the results in the SFC and IFC football championships and also reports on the Le Tour de France Femmes (Women’s TDF) and hear the 2024 winner, Kasia Niewiadoma talk about her yellow jersey win. To round of the show Adrian chat’s with Italian Gravel Champion and winner of the county rider jersey in this years Rás Tailteann, Matteo Cigala.
Tune in every Monday evening from 6pm on 92.5fm – 94.8fm and Internet live stream

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The Genealogy Show – Wills and Testements

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Lorna is a Professional Genealogist and Family Historian. She is a longstanding member of the Association of Professional Genealogist. Lorna is the Resident Genealogist for Dromoland Castle in County Clare. Lorna worked as Project Genealogist for George Boole *200 genealogy project for University College Cork and is an excellent researcher for Irish family histories.

Lorna produces and presents the successful show: ‘The Genealogy Radio show’ aired each Thursday at 4p.m. from beautiful Kilkee, Co. Clare at Raidio Corcabaiscinn and Podcasts are available weekly.

Lorna has delivered conference papers at Oxford; Lincoln College: Exploration of the Medieval Gaelic Diet: (2012); seminar papers at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway, ‘The Gaelic Lordships in Thomond, c. 1400-c.1500’ and papers at Irish Conference of Medievalists on themes of Brian Boru and landscape of East Clare. Lorna has published on medieval themes and on maritime subjects. Her research areas are the MacNamaras and O’Briens of Thomond.

Lorna received her Certificate for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy (CAFG) in Dallas in March 2015.

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Paulines Poems

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What better way to unwind than to join the Craol award winning show with Pauline Skehan and friends for poetry, chat and song. Pauline is joined weekly by Tim Bartlett, Julia Wright, Frances Daly, Larry O’Bryan, Asa and Rob.

Community Unity featuring Dolphinwatch Carrigaholt and Rita McCarthy , Monmore Chapel.

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We start of today’s show with some seasonal updates from Mary-Kate on the Dolphinwatch Carrigaholt dolphin and sealife tours out of Carragaholt.
Padraig has the Community Diary.
Rita McCarthy speaks about this next Sunday’s afternoon heritage event ‘The Story of a Little Chapel’the talk takes place at Little St Senan’s church, Monmore (Maps) Chapel on Sunday 18th August 3pm.
With Tereasa Jackson , Chris Behan and Padraig Griffin.

Radio Beams – Richard Andreuceitti decided late in life to give his art full time attention.

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Radio Beams show this week is with well known Richard Andreucetti .Artistic based outside Kildysart.
Member of a number Proffesional Association.
While he had qualified as a Stainlesteel engineer. His focus turned to art with metal work and silver.His work is abstract.
His art has sold abroad in a number of countries.
Tune in every Tuesday at 3.30pm, and Thursday repeat at 4:30pm.

A Little Bit Of Gardening – Benefits of Gardens.

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Gardening is good for you. Just looking at plants and gardens makes us feel better, while the act of gardening is good for the soul. Gardening assists us in staying in touch with the seasons and the natural world. So this week I thought it might be nice to look at The Benefits of Gardening, even in small spaces.
Tune in at 7.30pm on Monday, or 5.30pm on Wednesday, to find out more. Or you can listen in on our webpage at rcb.ie at your own convenience….

Kilkee Civic Trust Summer Talks: Fionnuala Walsh – Cappa to California.

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September 2013 Fionnuala was the first Irish Female to swim the Catalina Channel from Santa Catalina Island to San Pedro on the Californian mainland, see (below) (video here (8 Minutes).)  


Together with Ned Denison and Liz Fry both International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF) they completed the first ever group marathon: anti-clockwise around Anacapa Island (Santa Barbara, California 18km) in November 2016 see (below)video here (22 Mintues).
https://youtu.be/vPLiotof7A4


A Little Bit of Gardening – August Jobs

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With August now upon us, you will probably start to notice the summer flowering plants are starting to age, with their leaves becoming yellow or fading… Our tall plants may be beginning to bend, while clump forming perennials may start growing leggy. There are a few simple maintenance jobs that we can do to keep things going, so that is what we are looking at today, the Jobs for the month of August.
Tune in at 7.30pm on Monday, or 5.30pm on Wednesday, to find out more. Or you can listen in on our webpage at rcb.ie at your own convenience….