Category: Mentions in the Media

JJ’s – The Story of JJ Smyths won a BRONZE Award at the New York Festival Radio Awards, 2019, in the Music Documentary category. Listen to the full documentary here Award winning documentary, taking bronze at the New York Festival awards Near FM present…

Near FM have been nominated for an international award for their recordings and subsequent broadcasting of the Sundays at Noon concert series. The northside Dublin radio station have been nominated for Best Radio Music series in the Prix Europa competition alongside music programmes from radio stations…

The Celtic Media Festival is an annual 3 day event that promotes the languages and cultures of the Celtic Nations and Regions in media. It combines a major conference of seminars and master classes with  presentation of  coveted prizes in an international…

Gangland crime and coalition red lines: Dublin Bay North candidates debate in Coolock – https://www.thejournal.ie/catherine-noone-fine-gael-coolock-dublin-bay-north-4991269-Feb2020/?utm_source=email Listen back to the Election Debate

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/radio/radio-us-politics-nerds-in-heaven-but-its-hell-for-the-rest-of-us-37508981.html Also worth checking out is The Dublin Public House, from the excellent Near Fm (Tue, 3.30pm). This history of, and tribute to, the titular drinking-shops in the capital is colourful, engaging, full of interesting titbits and very charming. The next episode…