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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.
