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Fingal Soccer Festival 2012 on Phoenix FM
Phoenix FM broadcast live from the Fingal
Festival of Football in Sportslink, Santry, on Saturday August 18th. Our
weekend magazine show, Saturday Soundbites, was on air all afternoon,
broadcasting the football action, as well as interviewing the organisers, team
managers, players and supporters and playing lots of good music. There was also
a separate Girls Soccer Festival on the day, to promote U10 and U12 girls
soccer.
The station has been involved with this annual sporting event for many years. The Festival originated as a cross-border invitational football tournament called the Harmony Cup, where schoolboy teams from Northern Ireland were invited to play local Dublin 15 teams. Now in its 10th year, it has grown to cater for 32 teams across five sections: boys, girls, Special Olympics, Powerchair and Irish Street Leagues, with competitors coming from local communities all over Ireland, allowing young people from very different backgrounds and cultures to mix and play sports together. Phoenix FM was especially pleased to support the Special Olympics, Powerchair and Irish Street Leagues teams.
Pictured: Phoenix FM's Susan King and Gerry Lynam interviewing the Manager of the Sporting Fingal Powerchair Soccer Team Paul Murphy and Sharlene Rainey from Belfast Trailblazers.
A new series of programmes starts Saturday 12th of June on 92.5 Phoenix FM.
The city is probably the last place you would expect to see an abundance of wildlife, but if you look closer… Aileen Foley in her series of programmes “Nature in the City” will discover different species of bat living in Dublin 15, reveal the intriguing world of beekeeping, explore allotments and much more!
“I really enjoyed making the programme, as I got to meet so many interesting people along the way and got to find out so many new things about where I live”, - says producer and presenter of the programme Aileen Foley.
Supported by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Sound and Vision Scheme, the “Nature in the City” is produced to the highest standards of programme making.
“Nature in the City” goes on air on Saturday 12th of June at 5:30pm on 92.5 Phoenix FM (repeats on Sundays 7:30 pm).
