A Documentary tracing the experiences of a community development project that creatively recycles rubbish into desirable craft items.

Climate Camp: Part I from Dave Donnellan on Vimeo.

In this Neat TV production, Dave Donnellan and other volunteers bring viewers a glimpse into the recent Climate Camp in Shannonbridge, Co. Offaly. The protest camp highlighted the urgent need to address the issue of peat bogs in Ireland and the dangerous effect their exploitation by Bord na Mona and the ESB has on Climate Change.

Originally a video installation that ran in the Project Arts Centre, this recreation of the planning hearing for the Corrib Gas Project looks at the 10 year struggle between two cultures in the West of Ireland. On one side, a small community defends the safety of its people and rights of its farmers and fishermen, On the other the consortium of Shell Oil, the Norwegian state company Statoil and Marathon, plan to bring to market the valuable gas deposit of the Corrib gas field, off the North-West coast of Ireland. To achieve this, a production pipeline is being laid to carry the high pressure gas inland, to a processing plant in Mayo, exiting the Atlantic Ocean and reaching the Irish Coast at Glengad and Rossport.

You can read an interview with the artist that made the piece, Seamas Nolan over here.

Ellen Reddin welcomes you to the fourth and final episode of Never Too Left in its current run. Never Too Late looks at some of the bigger issues affecting older people today. In this episode the question on the agenda is the activities that older people get involved in. Mary Harkin from Age and Opportunity explains why it is important for older people to remain active, for many reasons, in order to improve their well being and maintain their mental health. Other guests include Alicia McGovern from the IFI talking about the Wild Strawberries Club, and a Damien McCroary from the Ballymun Whitehall Area Parntership.

In what is sadly the last of our programmes exploring masculinities organised with MAIN this season, Finian Murray, of the men’s health project takes the audience through the annual Men’s Health Week. Picking up on themes from the UK, it looks at men accessing services. All the research shows that the male half of the population are quite weak at getting tested or treatment when it comes to medical treatment. This year the health week has developed a poster encouraging people to not “wait until it’s too late.” The poster has been distributed to health centres GAA clubs and areas where men gather across the country. David Culver, the shows resident psychologist joins the diverse panel again to put the issues discussed into the wider context of mental health.