Local radio station wins two awards

A NORTHSIDE radio station was celebrating recently after winning two prestigious awards.

Coolock-based NEAR 90.3fm received the accolades at the annual CRAOL Community Radio Awards.

The first award went to the ‘Women in 1916’ series of programmes, which was produced by Debbie Hutchinson, Mark Finnegan and Felicity Kearney of NearFM and was done in partnership with the Northside Law and Mediation Centre. It featured a series of talks about women’s lives around 1916 and was recorded at Coolock Library.  

Many local speakers told of the women in the Easter Rising, but there were also tales of the suffragettes, the tenements and a range of other aspects of the lives of women during that era compared to the lives of women in 2016. 

The second award was for the ‘Arts and Disability’ series, under the Social Benefit Programming category.  

Series producer Padraig Naughton spoke with, and had performances by, artists and theatre companies with disabilities and, in so doing, brought a range of voices to the airwaves that are quite often overlooked in the arts and entertainment field.

NearFM wish to thank its team members for their great work and congratulate them on winning these awards.