Category Archives: RCB News
Kilkee Civic Trust 2024
In the meantime; we are delighted to let you know about Kevin Haugh’s book all about Kilkee’s own Manuel Di Lucia! It will be launched in Ennis – on this coming Friday afternoon. The book is titled, “Manuel Di Lucia, You Only Live Once”. When: Friday, 14thJune 2024 at 5.30 pm All are welcome; so please feel free to come along and support this auspicious occasion. RNLI Lifeboats, Kilrush Lifeboat Station
The Summer Programme of KCT Talks, along with news of the annual Arts in Focus evening, will soon be launched, so keep a watchful eye out for further details.
Where: Sheils Car Showrooms, Gort Road, Dulick, Ennis, Co. Clare V95 CP27
The proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to:
West Clare Cancer Centre, Kilkee
Election 2024
A Little Bit of Gardening Show – Our Garden and Water.
Tune in at 7.30pm on Monday, or 5.30pm on Wednesday, to find out more. Or you can listen in on rcb.ie at your own convenience….
Radio Beams – Pat Talty Support staff at Bedford Row in Clare.
Families and prisoners can contact him Bedford Rd during working Pat hours. Pat also works in the prisons in Limerick. On average 90 prisoners in Clare.
Tuesday 3.30pm. rpt Thursday’s at 5:30
Community Unity featuring Patricia Richard Clarke and Roisin Horgan.
RCB Sports Show
Tune in every Monday evening from 6pm on 92.5fm – 94.8fm and Internet live stream
Official RCB Sports Show Page
Raidió na Life has won the prestigious ‘Radio Station of the Year’ award at the Celtic Media Awards 2024 in Cardiff, the second time the station has won the award in the past three years.
Raidió na Life won the highly competitive category in which it was nominated side by side with 9 other stations this year: 6 BBC radio stations: BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Ulster, BBC Radio Foyle, BBC Radio nan Gàidheal, BBC Radio Cymru; Galicia’s Radio Galega; along with our friends at RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and Raidió Fáilte.
Muiris Ó Fiannachta, Radio na Life Station Manager, said:
“It is a huge source of pride for us to win Radio Station of the Year at the Celtic Media Festival 2024 in Cardiff, especially as it comes on the heels of us winning the award in Quimper in Britanny two years ago, in 2022.
As we compete with big stations with huge resources behind them, we are incredibly proud of this achievement. We are so happy that the judges recognised that there is something special going on at Raidió na Life – the energy, the diversity, the vibrancy, the innovation, the fun and the spirit of our station; the wonderful programmes and the a wide selection of content which we broadcast to the Irish-speaking community, not only in the greater Dublin area, where we can be heard on 106.4FM, but nationwide and worldwide on www.raidionalife.ie.
This is fantastic recognition for the creative, energetic work done by our brilliant team of volunteers in Raidió na Life. It’s also a great boost to and a huge vote of confidence in our wonderful staff who perform small miracles every day, keeping the show on the road and the station on the air. When you consider that there are more staff working on some programmes on some of the other stations we competed with this year than there are working in Raidió na Life in its entirety, this truly is a huge achievement by the Raidió na Life team and I cannot praise them enough.”
Notes for the Editor:
Raidió na Life won the award for Radio Station of the Year at the Celtic Media Festival for the first time in Swansea in 2013, the first time in the history of the festival that a community radio station won the award, and again in 2022 in Quimper, Brittany. This is the third time that Raidió na Life has won the award.
Raidió na Life is a non-profit community radio station broadcasting from the heart of the capital in Dublin 1, on Amiens Street. Thanks to funding from Foras na Gaeilge, a small team of three full-time and two part-time employees are employed at the station. The station has broadcasting and training facilities that allow over 100 volunteer broadcasters – both young and old – to prepare and present radio programmes every week. People are given the opportunity to learn and develop broadcasting skills, increase their self-confidence, and practice and improve their Irish in a fun and enjoyable environment.
About Raidió na Life:
Raidió na Life has been providing an Irish-language community radio service for the greater Dublin area on an educational and community basis since 1993. The station receives financial support from Foras na Gaeilge through its Community Radio Scheme and from Coimisiún na Meán through its Sound & Vision scheme. A small team of three full-time and two part-time staff work at the station.
The broadcasters work on a voluntary basis, with around 100 people taking part every week. The station also has a voluntary Board of Directors. Hundreds of broadcasters have gained broadcasting experience in Raidió na Life for more than thirty years, among them, some of the best-known broadcasters in the country, both television and radio stars – Sharon Ní Bheoláin, Cormac Ó hEadhra, Aedín Gormley, Colm Ó Mongáin, Tristan Rosenstock, Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin, Barbara Nic Dhonnchadha, Fachtna Ó Drisceoil, Sinéad Crowley and many many more.
The station is renowned for the high quality of its talk programmes which cater for a wide range of age groups & special interests among Irish speakers and is also recognised for its eclectic range of music. More information about Raidió na Life is available on www.raidionalife.ie
The Genealogy Show – Irish Folklore with Lorna Moloney, Daniel Winters, Cara Herir, Jamie Walsh.
Presented By: Daniel Winters, Cara Herir, Jamie Walsh.
Produced By: Lorna Moloney.
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.
LIVE Coverage of The Local Elections count 2024.
RCB and Scariff Bay Community Radio will be bringing you coverage of the Clare election results Live Streamed from Ennis throughout the afternoon starting from 3:00PM this Saturday June 8th, Tune in to us on 92.5 or 94.8 fm, or listen live on-line on Computer, tablet or Phone from the RCB.ie homepage.
Community Unity with guest Morwenna Kersun,and featuring Mary Heeran White.
Morwenna Kersun from West Clare Family Resource Centre joins us in the studio with information on upcoming events, and activities for the over 55’s around West Clare.Presented by Brenda and Chris on Sound.
Local elections 2024
These will begin airing after the news at 4pm today until 6pm. They are divided up into two blocks, with block 1 featuring Dawn Bennett, Rita Mc Inerney, Cillian Murphy, and Alan Troy after the news. And block 2 features Kevin Hassett, Susan Griffin, Therese Doohan, and Joseph Woulfe at 5pm.
A Little Bit Of Gardening – June Jobs
Tune in at 7.30pm on Monday, or 5.30pm on Wednesday, to find out more. Or you can listen in on rcb.ie at your own convenience…
Community Unity with featuring Annabelle McMahon, Fred O’Brien
The RCB Sports Show
Tune in every Monday evening from 6pm on 92.5fm – 94.8fm and Internet live stream
Official RCB Sports Show Page
Radio Beams – Joe Cahill Corofin GAA Senior Hurling Manager and Coach.
Joe and his team were 1st ever in the Munster Final.
Joe talks about potted history of Corofin GAA. How they have grown. Such big organisations for the size parish population. Tune in www.rcb.ie 3.30pm.