KCLR – August Episode – Fast Fashion

In our latest episode of Ours to Protect, students from Gaelscoil Osraí, Kilkenny, Bunscoil McAuley Rice, Callan, Co. Kilkenny, St. Brigid’s National School, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow and School of the Holy Spirit, Kilkenny have turned their attention to the topic of Fast Fashion, questioning why is fast fashion bad for the planet, what happens clothes […]

KCLR – July Episode – Biodiversity

In our third episode of Ours to Protect we turn our attention to Biodiversity, and opening this month’s programme we hear audio of wildlife and nature recorded from the grounds of Kilkenny College as part of a collaboration with metaLAB Havard Climate Institute for Climate and Sound, which aims to map climate change through sound.  […]

KCLR – Weekly Episode 50 – Leave no Trace

Well after almost a whole year, we’re bringing you the last episode of Ours To Protect this morning – Series producer Ethna Quirke caught up with Maura Kiely from Leave No Trace Ireland to take about their Love this Place campaign, which launched this week.

KCLR – Weekly Episode 46 – Kilkenny Biodiversity week

Biodiversity week is coming to Kilkenny and Carlow later this month.  Last week series producer Ethna Quirke sat down with Biodiversity Officer with Kilkenny County Council, Bernadette Moloney to find out more about her role.  In Part 2 of that chat, Bernadette tells us all about the local events to make the week.

KCLR – Weekly Episode 40 – Biodiversity and Kilkenny County Council

Listen back to this week’s episode as Etna Quirke chats to Bernadette Moloney the Biodiversity Officer with Kilkenny County Council as they discuss the work of the Biodiversity Officer, the Kilkenny County Council environmental plan, education and awareness and a bee identification workshop coming up. For more in this series listen in to KCLR every Thursday […]

KCLR – Weekly Episode 39 – The European Recycling Platform

This week on ours to protect, series producer Ethna Quirke chats to James Burgess, National Country Manager of the European Recycling Platform to talk about electrical cables and a St. Patrick’s Day parade installation called “Trash Mammoth”. For more in this series listen in to KCLR every Thursday at 11.20am.

KCLR – Weekly Episode 38- A New National Waste Management plan

This week on Ours to Protect KEVIN SWIFT, Regional Waste Co-Ordinator with the Regional Waste Management Planning Offices who is going to tell us about the first of it’s kind national plan which aims to stop waste growth over the next six years in a bid to prevent over a quarter of a million tonnes […]