Belgian Photographer who captures the Irish Travelling Community
24 May - 5 minsSince 2017, Belgian photographer and documentary maker Sebastiaan Franco, has been travelling back and forth to Ireland, documenting the lives and culture of the Irish travelling community based in Finglas through photos.
He joined Sean Moncrieff to tell us more about what he has learned since becoming friends with this community, and what it’s like to live with them, as someone from outside the group...
Series Episodes
Using Viking techniques to make 'jewellery and knives'
While once upon a time this island was full of blacksmiths, nowadays they are sadly few and far between. But one man in Co. Tipperary continues to use the methods of the Celts and the Vikings to make and repair a wide variety of tools and equipment. Sean was joined by Jamie Smith, blacksmith at Triscele Forge…
5 mins
28 September Finished
Pet-friendly cabins on ferries: 'The smell is fairly shocking'
If you’re wracked with guilt leaving your dog in the kennels while you go on your holidays, then Stena Line may have a solution to your woes. Pet-friendly cabins were announced by Stena Line last year for their Rosslare to Cherbourg route, but just how pet-friendly is it? Tabitha Monahan from the Irish Independent took the challenge of bringing her dogs Scout and Harper on the voyage and joined Sean to discuss...
13 mins
28 September Finished
'His kids are his charity' - Should Mick Jagger leave his back catalogue to his children?
Mick Jagger has announced he is to give his €500m Rolling Stones back catalogue to charity and not his 8 kids. Is he right to do so? Henry McKean went to find out and joined Sean to talk inheritance...
15 mins
28 September Finished
Using a full-size horse skeleton to make music
Artist, producer and composer, Matthew Herbert, bought the skeleton of a horse and then turned its bones into musical instruments. His new album, The Horse, was recently released, and he joined Sean to discuss... Image: X via @matthewherbert
11 mins
27 September Finished
Travel Hacks with Joan Scales
The ‘2024 Air Travel Hacks Report’, which contains some handy money-and-stress-saving hacks for Britons for future holidays, from the best day to book flights to how far in advance you should purchase tickets for the biggest savings has been released. It’s compiled by the travel website Expedia, who have looked at some of the data on their own website Joan Scales Travel Writer joined Sean to discuss...
8 mins
27 September Finished
170 year-old pear tree in the Liberties used by NCAD students 'to pick at fruit and make jam'
There’s a pear tree in Dublin that’s seen 170 years of culture, industrial revolution and urban development. And it is nestled in the Liberties, DNA results have shown. Students at NCAD in the Field Project taught by Gareth Kennedy have had their studies incorporated into the biodiversity of the inner city college, and it centred around this tree in particular. Gareth Kennedy joined Sean to discuss...
9 mins
27 September Finished
