Guests are invited to imagine themselves on the Aran Islands in the Atlantic Ocean on Ireland’s West Coast, and chat about their lives. Recalling testing moments and also their highlights or good times.
What Irishness has come to mean in the passing of the years and how that sentiment may have influenced their lives or differed depending on the places they lived.
Understanding meaning of resilience to them, and how that may have influenced or played a role in their lives or how they lived.
As part of the podcast they also choose one piece music they regard as most important to them and which has accompanied them on their journey with the reasons for their choice.
The podcast presenter is Rossa McDermott and the series is recorded at Dublin South Podcast Studios in Dundrum. The concept is devised by Dos Amigos, edited by Peter Rice
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Guests are invited to imagine themselves on the Aran Islands in the Atlantic Ocean on Ireland’s West Coast, and chat about their lives. Recalling testing moments and also their highlights or good times.
What Irishness has come to mean in the passing of the years and how that sentiment may have influenced their lives or differed depending on the places they lived.
Understanding meaning of resilience to them, and how that may have influenced or played a role in their lives or how they lived.
As part of the podcast they also choose one piece music they regard as most important to them and which has accompanied them on their journey with the reasons for their choice.
The podcast presenter is Rossa McDermott and the series is recorded at Dublin South Podcast Studios in Dundrum. The concept is devised by Dos Amigos, edited by Peter Rice
#aranislanddiscs #podcast #podcastseries #rossamcdermott #acast #spotify #applemusic #ireland
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Peter Murtagh is an award-winning, Irish-born journalist and author. He spent almost 40 years in newspapers (working for The Irish Times and the Sunday Tribune in Ireland, and the Sunday Times and The Guardian in the UK) before retiring formally in 2019. He held several management positions across all titles, including chief editor, foreign editor, news editor, opinion editor and managing editor. As a reporter, he specialized in long form investigative pieces.
“Take your chances and go and do it,” was a key lesson journalist Peter Murtagh took from his motorbike trip from the southern tip of South America to the northern top of Alaska.
I didn’t want to stop working; I loved the buzz of my working life — the daily excitement of chasing stories, engaging with people, finding things out and then writing it all up. But all good things must, if not end completely, then at least change somewhat. Old farts must make way for bright young eager beavers who want to make their own mark. So, OK, I had to retire from formal, full-time employment because, in the bigger scheme of things, it was the right thing to do.
I knew that I wanted to mark this enormous change in my life by doing a few big things. One of those was long nurtured plans to ride my bike, a BMW R1200 GS Adventure, from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska, to a place named, appropriately enough, Deadhorse. Which he described in his recent book, From Tip to Top, published by Gill (2024)
He has received the Award for Outstanding Journalism in Ireland (1983), Reporter of the Year in the UK Press Awards (1986), and the News Brands Ireland award for Investigative Journalism (2016).
He is the co-author (with Joe Joyce) of two books, The Boss – Charles J Haughey in Government (Poolbeg, 1983), and Blind Justice (Poolbeg 1984); The Rape of Greece – the king, the colonels and the resistance (Simon & Schuster, 1994), and, (with Natasha Murtagh), Buen Camino! – a father daughter journey from Croagh Patrick to Santiago de Compostela (Gill, 2011)
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