The Great Outdoors 16jan2025

This program is sponsored by Forum Connemara's social inclusion program, PSICAP. They support individuals, community groups, and social enterprises in Connemara. They have a full program tonight, including interviews with a reed biologist, a SEI SEC mentor, a spokesperson for the V9 Couch to 5K, and a member of the Midlands Astronomy Club. They also have a segment about art, featuring a children's author and the Artistic Director of the Moth and Butterfly Festival. The program also includes an Eco Slot, which focuses on environmental and climate sustainability. The guest for the Eco Slot is Caelan Doyle, who has been involved in breeding and conserving seahorses. Caelan talks about the importance of conserving seahorses and his efforts to set up breeding projects in areas where seahorses are fished. He mentions that seahorses could be extinct in the next 30 years if no action is taken. He also discusses his involvement in This program is sponsored by Forum Connemara's social inclusion program, PSICAP, which supports individuals, community groups, and social enterprises across Connemara. Contact us today to see how we can help you at 095 4116 or see forumconnemara.ie. Welcome to the Great Outdoors and Show Radio from the Connemara's, I'm Robin O'Scanlon so fondly with you Gerard and Clare. Thanks to Mitch for a very interesting program there. Now tonight we have a fairly full program as usual and if not in a few moments I will be speaking with Keelan Doyle, a reed biologist, and of course he was involved with the Sea Arts and Aquariums and we've talked to Keelan many many times over a long number of years and we'll find out what's happening there. We also have Avril Nisharki who is a SEI SEC mentor and she's going to talk about a home energy grants information evening which takes place Monday the 20th at 7pm at the Alcock and Brown Hotel. We'll also have Stephen Coyne, a spokesperson for the V9 Couch to 5K and I think we usually talk to Stephen at this time of the year, they get started on getting us up and running again. We'll also have Ivan Merrick who's from the Midlands Astronomy Club and he's going to be giving a talk on the Harumi Antenna on Tuesday the 21st of January at 7.30pm, that's with the Connemara Astronomy Club. Later on, a little bit of the art slot, we have Bonnie Bolton who's a children's author and she's going to talk to us about her book Friends in Fairyland and we'll also talk about her general books because this is the second book she's written. We'll also have Orla McGovern who's Artistic Director with Moth and Butterfly Festival talking to us about that as well but we're going to go to our Eco Slot and we shall be then very shortly speaking with Caelan Doyle. The Eco Slot on Connemara Community Radio, a weekly programme focusing on environmental and climate sustainability. This programme is co-funded by Commission Le Mans through the Sound and Vision Scheme. Right, as I said, we are up and running with our programme this evening and I'm delighted to welcome Caelan Doyle to the programme once again. Caelan, you're welcome to us once more here on Connemara Community Radio. Brendan, thanks a million, delighted to be back with you. It's great talking to you. As I was saying, we've been talking to you for about the last 20 something years I would imagine over all the different times and it's been a bit of an up and down for yourself as well for all the various things you've been involved in. I suppose just give us a background to your start off I suppose and your real interest in the seahorses because I remember talking to you at the very very beginning of this project and it's a fascinating subject of what you were doing. Yeah, I suppose I started, I came back to Ireland in 2000 and I was based in Karnagh where I spent nine fantastic years and I suppose what I was trying to do was to be the first person to breed the seahorse and the reason I was trying to do that is because they were under threat of extinction. They're used as natural aphrodisiacs in traditional Chinese medicine and I suppose the wild populations were being wiped out so I was just trying to save them essentially. And of course they're fascinating creatures, I mean I know I was talking about, at the time talking to you about them, they're very different, I mean I suppose, you know, people kind of look at them and wonder are they fish or are they animals or what kind of creatures they are because they don't seem to fit into almost any category. They don't and I suppose everything seems to kind of go against them but yet, you know, they've been amazingly successful, I mean they've been around since the time of dinosaurs, they're pretty much in every sea and every ocean including around the coast of Ireland in particular around the Connemara coast and, you know, there's so many things that are unusual about them, I mean if you look at them physically they're the poorest swimmer in the ocean, they're kind of like a mixture of animals, they've like a head of a horse, they have a tail like a monkey that can kind of hold on, they have an ability to change colour like a chameleon for camouflage purposes and they have a pouch like a kangaroo and of course the really unusual thing is that it's literally the only animal in the whole world that the male and not the female has the babies. Wow, they're wonderful creatures and of course to look at they're so calming and I can remember the lovely aquariums that were all over the place that you had set up with all of these fellas and when you look at them they are really, really gentle and calm, I think people are fascinated by the way they just kind of sit there in the water rather than swim. Yeah and it's, you know, it's amazing, Brendan, I've been looking at them for so many years and you know what amazes me is that when I watch them, they still have the same effect on me as the first time I'd seen them many, many, many years ago and you know there's lots of sort of recent scientific evidence and I mean, you know, to show that spending five minutes a day watching fish and seahorses in particular, it massively reduces our heart rate and blood pressure and it's actually the same effect on our brain as meditation so watching them, it just seems to calm you and switch you off and I suppose there's none of us that don't need a bit of that these days. Absolutely, so you left Curdor and you moved back to Dublin and things weren't exactly great at that stage for you, where did you go from there, I mean how did you progress or which direction did you take after you left Curdor? So I ended up back in Dublin, now I'd be still very much up and down, my better half, Charlie McTavish is from Carna and you know she would have been big involved with the Gráinnew Eáls along with her daughter Rina so we've lots of friends and family so we're up and down regularly but Dublin and the Dublin mountains became our home and I suppose I was bankrupt and I didn't know where to turn and I sort of went back to all I knew which was breeding and cultivating fish and all of a sudden deciding that maybe if I opened up a small shop and it was amazing because I had a friend in a small unit at the back of the Red Cow and he said he's a tiny little space he wasn't using and if I wanted I could have it and it literally became my home and Geraldine and Rina stayed in Curamara for a couple of years until eventually slowly things started to pick up and the word went out in Dublin that there was this crazy marine biologist living on the floor in a unit at the back of the Red Cow and if you went to his door and knocked on it you could get in and you know buy some fish off him and it just snowballed from there and you know people just seemed to like the story and the perseverance and people just volunteered and helped and you know bit by bit it grew and you know now we have the shop in Dublin and there's over 30 staff and I suppose it's just grown from nothing but it's amazing I suppose because all of the staff we have are ex-customers of the shop so it's very much I suppose a family affair at this stage. Yeah, I remember you know you might have mentioned there a little bit of you know that you were looking to see about trying to protect them in the wild because of all of the way that they've been harvested etc and the different problems, are you still trying to do that or is it now more for you know fish tanks and all that kind of stuff? No I mean the fish tank and stuff I suppose was to pay the bills and you know once the financial cloud started to clear I was able to go back to my passion which is very very very much the conservation so you know what we've done is we've set up breeding projects so essentially what I'm doing is transferring the knowledge that I've developed in terms of how to cultivate them out to the areas where seahorses are fished so you're talking about Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines you know small communities that are completely and utterly reliant on the seahorse and it's to show them how to grow the seahorse rather than taking them from the wild and it's you know it's been hugely successful so now we're trying to spread it out because it is a race against time I mean the current predictions are that seahorses will be extinct in the next 30 years and as I said earlier this is a species that has been with us since the time of dinosaurs so you know it's something that we really don't want to lose. Now I've come across recently a number of places where people are trying to start to get back into things like the coral reefs and recreating new coral reefs in areas that might have either never had them or certainly wouldn't have had them for a long time and I see in the paper there's a piece that you're involved with Saudi Arabia is this another aspect that people are trying to you know different people are trying to save what they have or what they might have wished that they have if you know what I mean? It is and I suppose there's a lot of doom and gloom out there and we all know that and you know environmentally I'm talking so we're really trying to focus on positives and we do a lot with you know youth education and the Saudi Arabia is a really interesting example because we were contacted by, what happened was we have a documentary on Netflix The Seahorse Man and would you believe that the prince of Saudi Arabia who is the wealthiest man in the world happened to see our documentary and he loves animals and apparently his favourite animal in the whole world happened to be the seahorse so the Saudis who we all know wouldn't have the most you know the best environmental track record are starting to change their tune and they are rewilding an area of the ocean and what we mean by rewilding they want to get the ocean back to the way it was before humans existed now this area is the size of Belgium and it has never been done before so they contacted me and we've already been out there and essentially we are spending six months scuba diving a team of this area to find out what seahorses are there and what seahorses are not there and then we're setting up a breeding project on the island of Sindala which if anybody Googles it is in the shape of a seahorse and all seahorses that we breed will be released back into the area for a you know a regeneration project so it's really exciting really interesting and it's something that hopefully will encourage other countries to do the same and of course I suppose you know you were saying that obviously the overfishing is one thing but I know that there's always a problem with the oceans heating up or changing the kind of the pH of the water or whatever is that a problem do you think or are we going to have to start moving seahorses to different parts of the world that they may not have been in just so that they get the right kind of climatic conditions? Well if you take the corals for example because they're a prime example you know again the doom and gloom prediction is that corals will be wiped out in the next 30 years primarily because of rising sea temperatures so the project we're involved in is essentially we're breeding corals but we're selecting corals that we know are more tolerant to higher temperatures so essentially the theory is if we do nothing everything is gone but if we prioritise the corals that we know have the best chance of survival and if we breed and reintroduce them yes we may lose some of the other species but at least the species that we will save have a much greater chance of survival because it's a race against time. The corals will evolve to adapt to increasing sea temperatures but these sea temperatures are increasing quicker than the corals can adapt through evolution so we need to sort of selectively breed and reintroduce the more tolerant corals if you get me. Very important aspect. So if people are, can people buy seahorses from you or from your company at this stage and what do they need to do if they want to do that? Yes so Seahorse Aquariums is the company and we're literally beside the Red Cow and if anybody's passing I love just to see people and kids coming in even just for a look with every kind of sea creature from jellyfish to baby sharks people love just to come in and to look and to be educated and we do you know we do, that's what we do, we make tanks, we install tanks, we maintain tanks and you know it's and even for businesses now the government have a new initiative that essentially if you put a tank into your business it's 100% tax deductible because of the well-being benefits so you know a huge amount like for example Tala Hospital is up the road from us, I mean we've 16 fish tanks in Tala Hospital so they really are kind of increasing in popularity if you like. Now as I say I know you've kind of, somebody was telling me they heard you on the radio a couple of weeks ago, I don't know if it was RT1 or something and they were just mentioning as I said about you keeling for so long and then somebody else said you run the paper then I believe you run the television and that's like with pigs or something as well were you? God you can do nothing, yeah I was, so we, it's funny you know Geraldine as I said is from Connemara and when we moved to Dublin and she said I said you know we had no money we were renting and I mean no money and eventually it slowly slowly things got to get better and I said well you know what where would you like to live and she said well I'd love to live in a country in trees and I'd love to have the sea view and I said listen you're not in Connemara now you're in Dublin we're not going to be a port in Foxtrot but eventually anyway we managed to get a lovely small cottage up the Dublin mountains and animals are my thing so we have everything from alpacas to wallabies to emus to you know to horses to you name it and we have pygmy pigs and one of our pigs needed an operation and it was filmed for a program on Virgin TV about this pig and he became a bit of a bit of a hit because he was a bit of a he was a bit of a character the last scene was him sitting on my lap it's in the fire in the cottage up the Dublin mountains so it's like a it's like a home from home it's where we were back in Connemara so you would. Well listen Kieran it's a fantastic story and as I say I've as I say 20 years ago or more since we met you and or not since I met you but I mean since we first came across you and things like that and it's always been an inspiring time talking to you and the very best of luck to you in this particular project as well and as I say you know let's kind of hopefully keep saving the seahorses they're incredible but thank you so much for being with us this evening on the program. Thanks for having me. Thanks Kieran. I really appreciate it. Bye bye. Now that's Kieran there talking to us about Kieran Doyle talking about the seahorses and all the other things that he's involved in as I say it is over 20 years I suppose since we've been talking to him first and I think we talked to him every three four five years along the way and somebody with a real passion and real interest in this and that's coming across and the very best of luck to him and to all of the family and everybody because amazing work that they do there. Now we're going to go to the end of our Eco Sloth and then we'll go over to our ad break. You've just been listening to the Eco Sloth on Connemara Community Radio, a weekly program focusing on environmental and climate sustainability. This program is co-funded by Commissioner Nauman through the Sound and Vision Scheme. Job Sloth on Connemara Community Radio. Full and part-time positions are available in Cairns of Manbridge which is located at H91 VN82. Positions are available in both the shop and the bar. 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Oh, oh, oh, it's magic, you know. Never believe it's a song, it's magic, you know. Never believe it's a song. Never been awake, never seen a baby. Sleeping on my pillow in the morning. Lazy day in bed, music in my head. Crazy music playing in the morning light. Oh, oh, oh, it's magic, you know. Never believe it's a song, it's magic, you know. Never believe it's a song. Love a sunny day, dream a far away. Dreaming on my pillow in the morning. Never been awake, never seen a baby. Dreaming on my pillow in the morning light. Oh, oh, oh, it's magic, you know. Never believe it's a song, it's magic, you know. Never believe it's a song. Oh, oh, oh, it's magic, you know. Never believe it's a song, it's magic, you know. Never believe it's a song. Oh, oh, oh, it's magic, you know. Now, we're having a little bit of a problem getting through, as I say, to Avril Leigh Sharkey, and as I say, hopefully Sheila or Mary are listening in, and they may give her a ring if they have a different number for her, so that we can clearly contact her. And if she wants to contact us here at 09541616, if she has a different number. But we are kind of going round in circles a little bit, and we're going to try and get Stephen Coyne to talk to us now, if we can as well. But we might just take a little jingle here, just to keep us going for a second, and then we'll hopefully be able to get us all sorted. You are listening to Connemara Community Radio, broadcasting on 87.8 and 106.1 FM. You can also listen in to us from outside of the Connemara area on our website, www.connemarafm.com. Good morning to you, and hope all is good with you on the lovely island this Sunday morning. Good evening and welcome to Connemara Community Radio. Coming to you from the English Baton Studio. And if you've just joined us, welcome to Connemara Community Radio, broadcasting on 87.8 and 106.1 FM. Yeah, Lee Dorsey, followed by Catherine Beefheart. Where else would you get us, Connemara Community Radio? 09541616, if you'd like your song played. Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to me, I'm Paul Cartin. Hi, how are you? That was a great tune by Fairport Convention and Ice. Come on, Lee, a bit of Kayleigh going on there. We'll have you dancing around the kitchen. And I hope you'll enjoy the song tonight. And I hope you'll be able to come back to me in the evening. Hello everyone, hope you're doing well. You're listening to Connemara Community Radio. It's actually really great to work with the folks here at the Grand Fest, which I'm sure you know how to say, Harry. Well, there was a time. We'd have to suspend it, James, tonight. You can also listen to us from outside the Connemara area on our website, www.connemarafm.com. Hope you're all well. Tonight's speakers are artists that have been around since the 60s, sold more than 250 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling artists of all time. Hi, I'm Jessima from Connemara. So that's it for tonight. I'd like to thank you all for listening, and hope that you will tune in again next week. Connemara Community Radio, thank you very much for listening, and I hope you enjoyed all of the music. Right, as I say, we're still trying to contact Avril, and unfortunately we're unable to get her just at the moment, but I'm delighted to welcome Stephen Coyne from the Lean Out and Couch to 5K. And I think this time last year we spoke to Stephen as well. Stephen, you're very welcome to us here on Connemara Community Radio. Thank you, Brendan, thanks for having me on. No problem at all. I think it was last year, anyway, we were speaking to you about this whole idea of after the Christmas and the New Year, we all need to get ourselves active and get moving, and I like your approach to this. You're kind of doing it on a gentle basis. Tell me again, just to remind people, the back roads to the Lean Out and Couch to 5K. So we started off six years ago there in 2020. We actually got going just a few months before the pandemic kicked in, but the whole idea was just to get people out early in January to blow off the cobwebs, and we run a programme over nine weeks to kind of get you from the couch to covering a 5K distance, and some people will just want to walk the 5K, they have no aspirations to run it, or if they want to, if they're doing a bit of jogging, they might want to run and jog and train themselves up so they can complete a full 5K in nine weeks' time. So a combination of runners and walkers, and it's a very social event, and it's a chance for people to get to know people in your own community or just outside your own community that they might not even see because we're all busy working and everything, so a great community event, and you get to sit and have a crack along the way as well. Yeah, because I suppose the big thing is a lot of people, they kind of say, you know, I'm going to start some new regime, like I'm going to start running, and I start running 10K or 5K or whatever, and then after a couple of weeks they just get set up and you give up. Do people kind of overdo it to start? I mean, they obviously think this is that you're kind of gradually breaking into it. Is that a better way than trying to do it all in one go? I think so, yeah, ease into it, and look, whatever works for different things works for different people, but for most people, I think, you know, ease yourself into it, and if it becomes a habit and something that you do kind of routine, it's much more likely to stick, and this as well, you're doing it with other people, so often you'll be relying on meeting up with someone and they'll be relying to meet up with you, and there'll be nights where you won't feel like going but your buddy will go and vice versa, other nights they'll get you out, so if you do it with a group, you're much more likely to stick with it, and we'll have the plan then, so like once we start, in nine weeks down the line we'll pick a park run either in Canberra or in Westport, we did the Canberra one there last year, and we'll have that goal of, you know, all completing that park run in Canberra in nine weeks' time, we'll all go together as a group and we'll go for a bite of breakfast or something afterwards, so there's a nice social element to it, and then what we'll try and do then, for anyone that's interested, is maybe once a month then after that, you know, we might try and do, obviously you can try and do a park run maybe once a month, and that might be on a small number of the people that will keep that going, but then, you know, if you are, if you want something to keep you motivated and keep you going throughout the rest of the year, then for someone that's a great motivation, keep them going. Yeah. And I suppose the other thing for a lot of people, again, is, you know, kind of bias and what there should be easy and not easy, because it's a very different thing if you're kind of running like this, you know, what you should be putting into your body instead of, you know, the bad stuff or whatever. Do you kind of look at the other aspects of this, because it's not just kind of walking, running, there's another whole health aspect to it all. Yeah, well, we're trying to get into that as much as people want to get into it, you know, so some people have a good handle on that themselves and they just want to come and walk or jog it and they're not interested in that, and then other people will come and look for advice on it. So the first year we did a few kind of group talks and then what's kind of changed now really is that, you know, if people want any advice on that individual, they kind of approach me individually or twos or threes and we can have a talk about the nutrition side of it or talk about, you know, running gear if they're into running or different races or events or, you know, some people might look just for tips for how to swing their arms when they're running and another person might be just interested in walking it and chatting to the person that they're walking alongside and have no interest in that. But, yes, we kind of gauge it to whatever the needs are because there'll be a wide range of people with a wide range of interests and needs signing up to do it. Wow. So you do two sessions in a week, is it Monday evenings and Saturday mornings? You said it two times, isn't it? Yeah, so it's three times a week in total but we meet together as a group twice a week. So Monday evenings we meet down in the... we're meeting now in the new community park there in Leeland which is a great facility. So we meet there and we start at 7.30 on the dot so we'll meet, you know, shortly before that. It'll be 7.30 on the Monday evening and then we'll meet again in the same place in the community park in Leeland at 9.30 on a Saturday morning and then on the Wednesday people do their own training and that's the whole idea that, you know, you're not totally reliant on the group either that you do learn to kind of get up and get out yourself or get out with your buddy on the Wednesday and we keep in touch then with the group WhatsApp so, you know, during every session I'll put the session up the day before so people know what they have to do and then as they do it or as they complete it they'll put a message into the WhatsApp group and that'll motivate somebody else to get out and it keeps us all accountable as well to get the sessions done on the days that we're not there or there'll always be the odd Monday or the odd Saturday that you can't make it but, you know, if you have a pair of shoes you can get out and do the walk or the run anywhere in the country and just put it into the group then and have it done and get someone else out the door to do it. So would three days a week be kind of the normal thing for people if they're doing this type of running and walking or can people just do it every day and, you know, obviously have the other two days and the other ones with the group and such but, I mean, people can do it every day, can't they? They can if they want to, yeah and you'll find some will just get into it and they'll go out every day and I think three if you're training for something and if you can get out three times a week that will get you there to a 5k and, yeah, some people will do the other days as well and the odd person might struggle and might only get out once a week the odd time and, you know, once a week is better than nothing and twice a week is better again but if you can get out the three you know, you're getting a chance to exercise, recover exercise, recover, exercise, recover especially if you're starting off and that's how you kind of build your fitness so not to overdo it straight away and then for some who are a bit fitter they might want to just go do their own thing maybe on the Tuesday and Thursday and kind of build into five days or, you know, whatever suits different people but three days seems to work and a lot of the couch to five program run over the three days, yeah Well, I know that obviously, though, for lots of the people motivation is one thing and, as you say, they're having somebody, a buddy of some sort to go walking or running with certainly helps but having a group like that and just giving the support to each other must be really, really important as well it must really give people that extra put them that extra mile, basically Oh, it does, you know and there's always a bit of fun and a bit of chat and a bit of crack and, you know, you'll have and we kind of have that ethos down there there's no flagging or giving out involved you're only allowed to encourage the person beside you and you're not competing with anybody except for yourselves there's a great kind of atmosphere of camaraderie and encouragement down there and, you know, you have the odd bad night weather but when you see everyone else out in it it'll encourage you to get out in it and you see the best runners in the world the best endurance runners in the world are the Kenyans and if you go to Kenya you never see people running alone they always run training groups and that really stands out when you talk to anyone who's trained out in Kenya so there is something about a group a group will bring you along and more than the sum of its parts so that's why it does definitely work to keep people motivated and keep them going for these few dark months of the winter OK, now I know it's starting on Monday the 20th but do people need to contact you now or how do they do that to register or to find out more? Yeah, they can probably the easiest thing is to come down Monday night we'll be starting at 7.30 so I'll be there from around 7 o'clock onward so we'll have registration forms and stuff like that so come down Monday night to register on the night if people have any questions they can give me a call or drop me an email or they can contact the LDA we're runners on behalf of the LDA it's a fundraiser for the park if you want to give up my number after this that's totally fine people can text or call or WhatsApp OK, well look Stephen as I say it's always a great thing to be doing because especially after Christmas and New Year people feel a bit bloated and don't want to get doing things so it's a bit of an encouragement for people to look after themselves as well because building up something like this gives you a health for life if you keep it up which obviously an awful lot of people will do but it's great talking to you again Stephen thank you so much for being with us again tonight Thanks Brendan and the invite is still there for yourself if you decide to come over Monday night Busy Monday night unfortunately No problem I'm always busy I'm always busy Good luck Stephen The busiest peeper in the world make time for exercise I know, I know I try it myself I try it myself Thanks Stephen Bye bye There you go I put my box there with Stephen having me and I should be doing my exercise if he saw me could Anyway look as I have been walking I have been walking so I'm doing very well Anyway that's the Leigh Nan couch the 5K and I think it's an amazing way of doing things because pure and simply the fact that you're with other people but also you're taking a little bit every night building up along the way and if you do need to contact Stephen you can contact him at 087 983 2018 and as I say if you want the Leigh Nan Developments Group you'll find it there or just turn up to the Leigh Nan Community Park which is very easy to find right on the side of the road and as I say 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Now we are kind of coming to the top of the hour we'll go to the tail of the piece of music but just to remind you that after the break at the top of the hour we're going to have Vannie Bolton who's a children's author and she's bringing out a series of books for children which are really really interesting this one is called Today in Fairyland it comes from our sorry I think this was Friends in Fairyland but they all follow stories from other well known fairy stories and it's kind of done in a way actually as almost like up to date so that the little map that's in the book shows you houses that we would all probably know around the town and around the area so it's a nice way of introducing people into fairy stories but into other kind of pieces as well so it's well done and we look forward to talking to her. We'll also speak with Orla McGovern who's Artistic Director with Mop and Butterfly Festival and that takes place the 30th of January to the 2nd of February and it's all around different parts of Galway I think and we'll find out more about that when we talk to her and then the last part of our program of course will be classical music so that's to keep us going between now and the end of our program and we are going to take a piece of music and we're going to go to the great Jesse O'Halloran and a lovely track from him which is called I'll Fly Away When this life is all I'll fly away to a home on God's celestial shore I will fly away I'll fly away oh glory I will fly away in the morning when I die hallelujah by and by I will fly away when the shadows of this life are gone I will fly away I care for the prison bars I fly I will fly away I'll fly away oh glory I will fly away in the morning when I die hallelujah by and by I will fly away I'll fly away oh glory I will fly away in the morning when I die hallelujah by and by I will fly away oh how glad and happy when we meet I'll fly I'll fly away no more cold shining shackles on my feet I will fly away I'll fly away oh glory I will fly away in the morning when I die hallelujah I will fly away just as you go weary days and then I will fly away to a land where our joys shall never end I will fly away I'll fly I'll fly away oh glory I will fly away in the morning when I die hallelujah by and by I will fly away I'll fly away oh glory I will fly away when I die hallelujah by and by I will fly away I will fly away on the road again today's weather forecast is kindly sponsored by twinny oil company 095-22636 I keep waiting to get on the road again on the road again today's weather forecast is kindly sponsored by twinny oil company 095-22636 I keep waiting to get on the road again on the road again on the road again on the road again on the road again on the road again on the road again on the road again on the road again Skolware, Clifton Saturday the 25th of January Immunity Notices is kindly sponsored by Connemara West, TLC Complete Abortive Solutions is a renowned local and international success CLS supplies microbiological and analytical testing and trained analysts on contracts with environmental, pharmaceutical and medtech industries CLS are really proud of their roots and promoting Connemara as a place to live and work and grow career opportunities For more information, visit cls.ie When I got up this morning the house it was a-freezing I checked the app with one quick tap the twinny oil smart saver Call Twinny Oil on 1-800-555-999 or visit twinnyoil.ie Twinny Oil, I'm Valetess Jolie West Coast Insulation Your local cavity wall and attic insulation specialist Walls pumped with Kingspan Platinum EcoBead We also supply and fit blown rockwool and mineral wool in attics For more information or for a free quotation call West Coast Insulation on 087-142-1414 or visit our website myinsulation.ie Connemara Cares providing and maintaining delivery of home care services to older and vulnerable people across North and West Connemara If you or anyone you know is in need of any support just give us a call 095-37125 or you can contact Geraldine Kelly g.kelly at connemaracare.ie www.connemara.ie www.connemara.ie www.connemara.ie www.connemara.ie www.connemara.ie www.connemara.ie www.connemara.ie www.connemara.ie www.connemara.ie www.connemara.ie www.connemara.ie www.connemara.ie www.connemara.ie Welcome back to our program and as I mentioned we were going to talk about a wonderful children's book Friends in Fairyland and it's a very interesting take on the tradition of fairy stories and to tell us more about this I'm delighted to welcome Vannie Bolton who's the author of these particular books Vannie you're very welcome to us here on Connemara TV Radio Thank you very much Brendan it's wonderful to have an opportunity to talk about the books Thank you No problem at all I had a very interesting read of the book I know it's for 5 to 9 year olds but you've also kept the kind of interesting aspects of the stories there as well How did you go about doing both these books at all to start off with? Well years ago when I was a child my mother used to always read the nursery rhymes to me and I had a book, it was called Mother Goose Stories and Mother Goose Poems and I suppose over a period of time I always went back to it and I loved listening to the little nursery rhymes and always kept it in my head and then years later I was teaching and I suppose the easiest method of helping children to understand things is through the story and I started to make up little stories I had infants and senior infants for nearly 14 years so I made up little stories and over a period of time I suppose I live in a place called Cuckoo Land I decided that I would make a little town out of all these people so the cover of the book has the actual little town of Fairyland and in it I put each character like Little Boy Blue has his little blue house and Mother Goose has her house Red Wolf has his house and then the Witch is up in the wood and then the hill is the Grand Old Duke of York's hill and up on the tip top you have the Queen of Hearts so I suppose over a period of time I started to expand and develop these and then the wood at the south is the Truth Fairies wood so I suppose you have them all there now Yeah, because that was what I liked about it and as I say, the houses look like Irish houses there's nothing terribly elaborate because sometimes when you look at these fairy stories there are these incredible castles or incredible gingerbread houses etc but you've made them more or less like real characters Exactly, and I decided that it was important that they relate to children that live nowadays so Little Boy Blue, although he's dressed in blue and although he has a little trumpet he looks modern in the sense that he has a modern haircut and his trousers look like trousers that a little child of four or five would wear and it's the same with Martine Moffat who is little as Moffat sat on a tuffet she is a modern little girl dressed in a pink tracksuit and I suppose each of these illustrations it was thanks to my illustrator where we actually conversed over and agonised over every single picture and it was wonderful to think that we actually got them to almost modern life but yet kept the characteristic of the Little Boy Blue that we would have remembered from childhood Now this is, what is out now is your second book That's correct You're planning to do a few more then as well are you? Well I was hoping to do four Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter So today in Fairyland my first one is white so I kind of felt that that was sort of summer and then this one that is sort of brown so I'm kind of thinking that's autumn so I'm hoping to do a winter one and then a spring one But each of these books cost £6,500 to actually get it into the state it's in at the moment because the illustrations you can't have a storybook without illustrations and the illustrations are quite expensive and as well as that the printing is quite expensive so I suppose when one book it actually cuts even then I start on the second one but it takes 650 copies of the book before I actually break even I presume it's for sale in shops generally or do people have to go online or how do they get their hands on it? Well if you're in Galway or Connemara or you're in that part of the country I actually don't have any of it in the bookshops there but I do have it on buythebook.ie or people can email me on mamibolton at gmail.com and I can send it to them but if you're in Carlow you will see it in the bookshops in Carlow I have it in Kilkenny in Cannes bookshops I have it in Portlaoise in allsbook.ie in Portlaoise but it's very very difficult to get it into the big bookshops like Eason's or any of these because you really have to be known they tend not to answer the emails, the buyers don't tend to answer the emails from a little unknown person like me you really have to be known before they will actually stop the book Yeah I mean I think that's a big problem for a lot of self-published authors to try and get it out there into the public which is a pity of course because as you say it would be lovely to have more and more of those ones available. The reaction that you get from do you get reactions from kids about them or how do you know how people feel about them? Well before I even considered getting this book and printing it I went into different schools. I read stories to infants first and second and I listened to their reaction and what they felt like and I got a really good reaction from it. I also have grandchildren and I have one in particular, Oren he sits on my knee every Tuesday because I normally write around and he says well now granny what story have you today and there's nothing as honest as a child and they'll say no I don't like that one but I like this one and it's amazing. That's how I started and I narrowed it down to the stories that are actually in the two books. Great Oren deserves a lot of credit for that as well The one part, I mean I enjoyed all of the book, the story as I said but I mean it obviously features around Jack Spratt and the poor guy collapsing on the floor. Even that I suppose is important in the sense because it shows I mean kids can learn what they have to do obviously if somebody collapses, get the doctor and help out and all that kind of stuff. There's a little bit of practical advice there as well. And you're always trying to give a little moral to these stories so in the Jack Spratt one where Jack is lying down on the ground and boy blue goes for help. It's the series of questions well he's on the ground is he and and then the doctor asks him after all of that is he breathing and he says gosh I never thought of that. So it kind of helps to focus children on this whole idea that if somebody is unconscious on the ground that they get help very quickly and cover them up and keep them warm. So that's basically the whole moral of that story. Well I think it's a wonderful wonderful book. I really enjoyed to read it. It's very interesting and I'd love to see it available more in Connemara. So I'd like to mention since there's various bookshops here that they should be getting it in as well. Well that would be wonderful. That would be the icing on the Christmas cake really for me because anywhere I can get it in and get my name out there and get the books. All I really want to do is to promote the idea of Fairyland and little stories because there's lots of books that are picture books but the actual story books seem to be in short supply. The one I used to read a lot when I was growing up was Ina Blyton and all her little stories and I suppose this is a modern take on her idea of telling the story with the moral. Yes. Absolutely. Well look it's great as I say to talk to that to you about it. So listen thank you so much and as I say the very best of luck with the book and as I say we will see how we can actually promote it a little bit more for you as well. You are so kind and thanks to everybody for listening and we hope I'll be in contact again. Thank you so much. That's Buddy Bolton. They're talking to us about her book Friends in Fairyland. We're going to take a little bit of a break here. We've got a few things to do. I think we may have actually Avril Nisharki available for a moment and then we will also be speaking with Orla McGovern after that. So let's take a quick break here. You're very welcome to Lyrical Talks on this Friday evening here on Kilmarnock Community Radio. My name is Linda O'Malley. I'm with you in the next hour so I hope you get there with me. Paul Brady and the Lakes of Pontchartrain and Conor Keane that piece is called The Renvale Walls and the Dolphin Sleep. Tune in every Friday evening from 6pm to 7pm with Linda O'Malley and Lyrical all sorts. Let's wish you all a lovely evening and have a wonderful week. You are listening to Connemara Community Radio broadcasting on 87.8 and 106.1 FM. Right, we are back and sorry for the little bit of a break there because I think we actually now have Avril Nisharki to talk to us. Avril, welcome to Radio Fog in Connemara. Thank you very much. How are you? I'm fine, I'm fine. It's good to hear you Avril, we were talking, I mentioned about this event taking place in Clifton and that you were going to be giving a talk and talking to us all about the whole idea of the SEC network as well. Tell me a little bit about what all this is about. Yes, so the event will be on Monday at 7 o'clock in the Alcock and Brown Hotel in Clifton. There's an SEC there, so Sustainable Energy Community Group there with the Clifton Tidy Towns Committee. We'll be having an event discussing the benefits, I suppose, of being part of the SEC network, what the SEC network is all about. We have presentations then as well from different agencies. We have Shane O'Neill there from Solar Homes will make a presentation to the group and we have Sonia Van Erher, which is the Western Energy Agency and they're working with homeowners all over Connemara to retrofit their houses. So they'll be making a presentation about their work and also giving people information about the different FEAI grants available to assist with that. I'll also be making a presentation then for businesses on the grant support that's available for upgrades to businesses as well, including solar and other networks too. Yeah, I mentioned when I was talking about this earlier that, you know, it's very important that communities come together as well. That's a really very important aspect of it. And I know this on the island, I think it's pretty much now so that you actually have all the energy there without having to get it from anybody else. Is that it? Not quite, no. So the energy co-op here on the island, unfortunately not, that is the dream. The energy co-op here was established in 2012 and so we retrofitted about 50% of buildings across the three islands to some degree. We have a lot of solar PV panels installed on homes. There's a lot more of that work happening in 2025. We have about 70 homes and businesses all across the islands have expressed an interest again this year in having solar PV panels installed through various different schemes that we're working on. And we are still working to generate community owned energy, so in the form of a solar farm possibly, which would be owned by the community and then all profits from the sale of electricity in that would be retained in the community. We're a non-profit organisation and so that would all go into a community benefit fund that could be used then for various different projects be they energy related or climate related or not. And so it really I suppose highlights the difference between maybe a community led project and a project that is developer led because all of the benefits are staying within the community and that's why it's so important that communities do come together and I suppose there's a huge impact from communities coming together to get that kind of work done that you don't feel if there's a developer coming in developing a project at the same scale. Yeah and of course obviously you know as you say communities working together like that will have more I suppose or should have more interest in you know what they're doing because it is for their own area and all of that. Is there a kind of a limited community aspect in the sense of I mean if it's too big or is it too small or do you have to have just the right size a bit like Goldilocks and the porridge, do you need to get just the right kind of mix of the places? You do, I mean you'd be surprised at the scale of projects that communities actually can achieve and there's a huge amount of support available now through the community enabling framework which FEAI have and that's set up specifically to assist communities to develop energy generation projects and that gives you a lot of technical expertise which is funded by FEAI and that looks at things like your grid connection and your planning and how much capacity there is on the grid for how much electricity you can generate and there's funding then also available to help with the pre-development costs like planning permission and things like that. Now it is only up to a certain size but they're still very sizable projects, they're not small tiny projects by any means and so communities can have a huge impact and I think it's great that the government are recognising the role that communities should have and the impact that they can make in terms of us reaching our climate targets in terms of generating renewable energy as a country and I think they can see as well that there's a huge benefit for communities for community owned projects and even in terms of I suppose community acceptance of these projects in their areas when people can see the secondary benefits outside of climate benefits that are associated with them that makes a huge difference too. So Avril as I say you'll be one of the speakers at that particular meeting and I suppose the great thing of having somebody with practical understanding as well is that questions can come to you, I'm sure there will be plenty of questions and answers from people so that you will have that chance to explain other aspects of it because again it can be quite an interesting one. So that's really wonderful talking to you, I'm sorry that we're kind of a little bit short compared to what it would have been earlier but we are running out of time on the programme here but it was great talking to you Go raibh míle maith agat agat agus. Thank you very much. Go raibh míle maith agat agus slán. Now that's Avril Níoch-Archie there who is an AISEC mentor and she was telling us about that meeting as I said I mentioned taking place in the Alcock and Brown Hotel on January the 20th, that's next Monday, 7pm and it's a real interest to people, should be a great interest to people who are interested in home energy grants and all of the other aspects of that and what's available, what's not available, what they might be able to do so it really is lovely that people can get that chance to do that and as I say I was delighted that we were able to get Avril there to give us the piece, sorry not as long as I would have liked to speak to her but unfortunately as I say we are kind of juggling here tonight as I say we've got new phone systems we have computers, we've all sorts of stuff going here at the same time so we're even more confused than normal but anyway as I say we are delighted that we're able to keep going with all of the different pieces of the different pieces and I will be speaking with Orla McGovern fairly shortly I'm not sure if she's lined up to go now I think we might get her in just about one minute so poor Anne is running around here but anyway as I say there's an event coming up, the Mott and Butterfly Festival and some people may be familiar with the Mott Festival or the Mott thing where people tell stories you have to not read them, you actually talk them as such but I'm not sure what the Mott or Butterfly this is what it's about and Horizon is the theme of the storytelling festival which is taking place as I say from 30th of January to the 2nd of February but I think we might just about have Orla lined up, so I think we have Orla online there, can you hear me ok Orla? I can, hello Brendan, how are you? So you're Orla McGovern, artistic director of Mott and Butterfly Festival just tell us a bit about Mott and Butterfly Festival what's the background to this? Ok, so Mott and Butterfly, we're an arts collective and we're based in Galway City and we've been running events I suppose for the past it's actually 14 years now can you believe, I have to count for a second but we've been running a festival for the past 5 years and basically we bring together the art forms of storytelling and improvisation and what we used to do is have a nice every couple of months in Galway City and we've sort of grown like some organism out of that and we travel a bit with stuff as well and then about 5 years ago just before the big world event that changed us a little bit we had planned to do a festival and we ended up doing our first couple of festivals online as it happened and a little bit of a hybrid but we're still here and this is our 5th festival this year so we've a bunch of things, if anybody's been to our regular nights it's storytelling and improvisation and all things around that we've workshops, we've bilingual events we've stories for children, we've outdoor stuff in the festival so it's a little bit of an expansion of that I was mentioning there earlier that the moth kind of idea people would be familiar with possibly the storytelling rather than reading but the butterfly aspect is that just adding another layer to it? Yeah, so I'll tell you where the name comes from we've got Connemara people coming in to see us so it's great we're reaching out as far as Connemara for the live nights as well so there's an amazing movement an amazing movement started in the States which is around personal stories and true stories and I'm sure a lot of your listeners might be familiar with the Moth Podcast and it's basically people tell true stories from their lives so when I lived in the States I was very kind of inspired by this different style of storytelling that we didn't have so much of here and I know we have our wonderful history and our traditions as well but I wanted to bring sort of that together with our traditional stories but also improvisational stories and that's kind of where the butterfly came in as well because that's all about transformation from one thing into another so it's kind of a name in addition to the two things coming together the name sort of really fits for me as well so we have kind of the three types of storytelling as our root from the very beginning and we didn't know if it would work, it could have been a disaster but people are still coming and we've built up a great community of audiences So this festival is the 30th to the 2nd what do people, what would they expect to find there, who are taking part in it? Well a few years ago, a number of years ago a guy from the BBC came and he went to one of our nights and he had his expectations about students he said he was absolutely astounded at the age range and the demographic of the people who are interested in this kind of a night you know there were students, there were people who were just legally over the age to have a glass of wine and then there was a man there in his 90s in a suit who told a story so we have a regular flagship night which is kind of our main centre night is the night where we have our guest storytellers and in a typical night there will be guest storytellers and guest artists but we'd also have one or two contributions from the floor from the audience tellers. Now for the festival we have so many guests that we have a whole night dedicated to sort of anyone can get up and tell a story and that's our big story circle at the end so that's kind of our regular storytelling night and the stories can be true stories there's always a theme for the night so if you have a story about Sean McCool that you want to tell that would fit that, that would be part of the night but we have professional artists from all over the world we have improvisational artists coming from Finland who are doing a show on the Friday night in the Blue Teapot Theatre so it's really a mix we have wonderful Maureen Rudlochlin from Indooran, Maureen is doing the bilingual set with one of our Scottish storytellers so if you're 5 or you're 55 or 105 there should be something for everyone and some workshops as well Orla just give us the contact details because unfortunately we're a little bit short of time but we will be mentioning this again over the next day it'll be back on again tomorrow so people will get all the details but how do people find out more about us when we're going to buy tickets etc? Brilliant, well we're on a bunch of the socials anyway but if you go to our website there's a full list of the festival there and as I said we have free shows we have ticketed events we have stories in the museum with stories in Charlie Burns and a gorgeous storyteller telling tales of India and his family's journey as well so have a look at everything, I'll be here for a while telling you everything anyway so go to the website is the best thing and have a look there and I'm sure some of your listeners are regulars anyway but for anybody new, we've also got a lovely kids show out in Athenry if there's anybody in the other side of the county and it's really worth going to on Sunday Ok, well listen all the best to you and to everybody involved there with us and as I say we'll be letting people know about this again during the programme tomorrow but thank you so much for being with us this evening Really appreciate it, lovely chatting to you and have a look over there, Artistic Director of the Moth and Butterfly Festival running from the 30th of January to the 2nd of February and if you want to check things out go on to www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com www.mothandbutterflystories.com