Grassroots Radio's Irish partners University College Cork (UCC) and Bere Island Community Radio joined the Irish Island Innovation Summit, which took place online between 7th and 20th September 2020. The presentation focused on the role of the radio in fostering connection during the COVID restrictions. Great...
The information and community activities related to Coronavirus are keeping Grassroots Radio members quite busy. This is also the case for the Irish community of Bere Island, which is doing everything to adopt measures and behaviors that can protect local inhabitants. This includes an appeal to...
On October 11, University College Cork (UCC), in conjunction with the West Cork Islands Community Council, will host a half day think-in event about the future and sustainability of the West Cork Islands and how a community radio platform might support this at the local...
On Thursday 5th and Friday 6th of September 2019, the Grassroots Radio consortium celebrated the third general assembly of the project, hosted in the friendly building of 11.11.11. – the coalition of NGOs, unions, movements and various solidarity groups in Flanders (Dutch speaking Northern part...
Grassroots Radio partner CereProc has launched the world’s first commercially available Irish language synthetic voice as part of the Grassroots Radio project. CereProc’s Text-to-Speech technology will be used by a community radio station on Bere Island in south-west Cork to generate spoken content when the station...
University College Cork and Bere Island Heritage Centre represented the Grassroots Project at the recent Oral History Network of Ireland Conference in Limerick. The conference was about oral histories in the digital age and we presented ideas of collecting Bere island's oral histories via the...
Bere Island Community Radio held their third broadcast last Sunday May 19th, broadcasting on 100.1FM locally and worldwide on the Internet. The three-hour show was co-presented by two island women, Eileen Murphy and Angela Sullivan. As Ireland has local and European elections on May 24th...
Grassroots Radio partner RootIO is gearing up to support the deployment of the two stations in Romania (Varvorul de Jos and Sf. Gheorghe) as well as the broadcasting efforts of the Bere Island station in Ireland. Here are some updates guys from RootIO have shared. For...
We are delighted to see Grassroots Radio featured on The Southern Star, a local Irish newspaper covering the area of Cork. With a brief description of the project, the article focuses on the benefits that Grassroots Radio is bringing to the community in Bere Island. Bere...
We are happy to wrap up a productive and lovely general assembly of the Grassroots Radio consortium, which took place last week in the remote scenery of Bere Island (Ireland). It was a fruitful meeting, full of exciting conversations, debates, and planning around the different components...