The council wasn’t hiring a municipal walker, but she took the job anyway
Once a month since September 2022, artist Lian Bell has done a full circuit of the North and South Circular Roads, observing these 14km through the seasons.
In 1986, it was the hotline to reach the team behind Big Beat Radio, who didn’t want the government to find their transmitter.
Or, as its tag line goes, it’s “Country to the ‘Core”.
Co-founder Brian McNamara says the new station’s challenge is to represent not only what’s happening in the Irish music scene, but what’s being listened to.
When West Dublin Access Radio shut down at the end of 2014, it left a gap. From a small windowless room, Together FM is trying to fill it.