Thursday, 24 July, 2008

Latest News

Festival News

July 15th 2008

A short film about the Adult Learners' Festival is now online here. The film was produced for AONTAS by DCTV as part of a series of programmes called 'This is Dublin' funded by the Sound and Vision Broadcasting Funding Scheme.

July 14th 2008

You can now nominate a project for a STAR award. For more information on how to nominate a group, click here.

Advertising Campaign

Here’s a summary of our advertising campaign last year.

RADIO ADVERTISING

Newstalk: Micheal O’ Muircheartaigh Ads the week beginning the 28 January 2008 and week beginning 4 February 2008

Dublin’s Q102: Pat Shortt Ads the spread over 30, 31 of Jan and 1 of Feb 2008

Beat 102103fm: Micheal O’ Muircheataigh Ads the week beginning 28 January 2008

Midlands 103fm: Pat Shortt Ads the week beginning 28 January 2008

Red Fm: Pat Shortt Ads the week beginning 28 January 2008 (in 8am hour)

Clare Fm: Micheal O’ Muircheartaigh Ads the week beginning 28 January 2008

Highland Radio: Micheal O’ Muircheartaigh Ads the week beginning 28 January 2008

Limerick Live 95fm: Pat Shortt Ads week beginning 28 January 2008

A number of Community Radio Stations are also advertising the festival.  They include the following:      

Castlebar (Mayo)

Phoenix (Blanchardstown)

Liffey (Lucan)

Connemara

Wired (Limerick)

Claremorris

Flirt (Galway)

Raidio naLife (Irish Language, Dublin wide)

Dundalk

Inishowen (Donegal)

Corca Baiscinn (West Clare)

West Limerick

Tipp Mid-West

Dublin South

NEAR FM (Northside)

Ros fm (Roscommon)

Cork Campus Radio

South East Radio Fm

PRINT MEDIA

The Irish Daily Star: Monday 28 January 2008 and Friday 1 February 2008

Metro: Wednesday 30 Jan 08

Evening Echo: Thursday, 31 Jan 08

Northside and Southside People: Wed 30 Jan 08

Tallaght Echo: 29 Jan 2008

Connaught Tribune: Week Beginning 28 Jan 08

Munster Express: Week Beginning 28 Jan 08

Leinster Leader: Week Beginning 28 Jan 08

Northern Standard: Week beginning 28 Jan 08

Learning Matters

The closing event for the Adult Learners’ Festival took place on Friday February 8th 2008. ‘Learning Matters’ – Keeping Learning on the Political Agenda was the title of a panel discussion which takes place at the National Library of Ireland on Kildare Street. 

The event was recorded for broadcast by NEAR 90 fm and is available on a podcast. For more information visit the policy news section of the AONTAS website.