Calendar of Events

This workshop is postponed due to illness. We will advertise a new date shortly.

What’s it like to do a radio interview in studio? Or to be put on the spot at a conference? What does the journalist need? And how do you get your message across effectively in the short time available?

What you get: Help in identifying your key message. The experience of a live radio interview.  Constructive feedback in a small group.  Your recorded interviews to take home.

The workshop is open to everyone, but is particularly useful  for people working in the sciences, technology and health areas, where complex topics and issues are often involved.

Book your place below, or on eventbrite.

The workshop is an enjoyable learning session that covers:

• How to convey your message in a short or more extended interview.
• A four-minute (as live) radio interview in a studio atmosphere, similar to Morning Ireland;
• A one-minute ‘soundbite’ for radio and TV news journalists;
• The Do’s and Don’ts of radio interviews;

Your trainers: Experienced broadcast journalists, who have been providing media training for years: science journalist and editor Mary Mulvihill, who is also a trainer with the international EscoNet project and former RTE health and science correspondent Aileen O’Meara.

HOW: Each participant takes part in a customised interview based around their pre-prepared press release or briefing; all participants share in a common feedback session, learning from each other’s experience; all receive a handout, and copy of the recorded interviews.

FOR: Anyone wanting or needing to deal with the media, radio in particular. Anyone whose name appears at the bottom of a press release.  Anyone who wants to encourage the media to cover their work.

NUMBERS LIMITED TO TEN to ensure individual attention and feedback on the day.

COST: €150 per person; €125 for bookings made before September 9^th 2011. Cost includes tea/coffee, handout and MP3 version of the interviews.

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We are taking names on the ‘waitlist’ for cancellations, as the tour is fully booked (see booking form below). But even if we can’t accommodate you this time, don’t worry! Just get our fully downloadable Dublin Rocks audio-guided tour,  and you can take the full tour at your own pace whenever you want.

We are delighted to bring you a  special guided tour — Streets, Stones and Stories — as part of this year’s Culture Night programme in Dublin, on Friday September 23rd.

It’s a great chance to explore the very fabric of the city, in a two-hour stroll that starts in the heart of Viking Dublin, and includes  some of the city’s finest buildings and little-known gems, ending in St Stephen’s Green.  Along the way, we’ll be looking at everything from cobblestones and windows to fossils.

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It’s true what they say: publicity is the essential oxygen of survival these days. This intensive half-day workshop will equip you with basic media skills to help you publicise your research, business or events, and focusing on the central technique of how to write an effective press release. By the end of the session, you will have drafted a press release, and even sketched out your media campaign!

This workshop is a useful preparation for our next radio interview training session on September  27th. It is particularly aimed at people working in science and technology, where complex topics are often involved

You will learn about How To:

• Identify what makes ‘News’
• Find out how to hit the headlines
• Write a successful press release . . . one that isn’t instantly binned!
• Contact journalists
• Develop good media relations

HOW: To get the most out of the day, it helps if participants have something to publicise, whether an event, or research finding. The workshop includes practical exercises, and the result is an enjoyable and productive learning experience.

FOR: Anyone wanting or needing to deal with the media. People working in science and technology, with something to publicise.  Anyone whose name appears at the bottom of a press release. Anyone who wants to encourage the media to cover their work.

NUMBERS LIMITED TO TEN to ensure individual attention and feedback on the day.

COST: €125 per person; €100 for Early Bird bookings made before August 19th 2011. Includes tea/coffee, and handouts.

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I’m delighted to announce that Senator David Norris will now launch our new audio guides and smart phone apps for the National Botanic Gardens  on Tuesday, April 5, at 10:30 a.m. in the gardens. This is an invite only event.

Join us, for this special talk marking International Women’s Day at Blackrock Castle Observatory (BCO) in Cork, when we look at the life and legacies of some pioneering Irish women.

They were the first of their kind, the Irish women who earned a living from astronomy in the late 1800s. Annie Maunder travelled the world chasing solar eclipses.  Margaret Huggins photographed the stars.  Agnes Clerke wrote definitive books about astronomy.  And astrophysicist Alice Everett, who went on to invent some early television technology.

Our talk is part of the First Friday programme at Blackrock Castle Observatory, on March 4.  Hope to see you there!

You can read more about the lives of these inspiring Irishwomen, in Stars Shells and Bluebells (1997), and Lab Coats and Lace (2009).

From weighing the Earth and mixing fairytales with powerpoint, to hacking at the kitchen table, and DIY biology . . . just some of the fascinating talks lined up for the next Ignite Dublin event, on Feb 10th at the Science Gallery.

And the good people who organise the event, have kindly asked us to give one of the talks. The challenge is to give a 5-minute talk, with 20 slides, changing automatically every 15 seconds.  We hope we can come up with a talk that will be ‘ingenious’!

Last September, they Ignited at the Electric Picnic festival tent — and if you missed that, you can catch some of the talks on their website here.

Next February’s is the 6th Ignite Dublin  and it promises to be a great night.  We hope to see you there.

Learn how to design furniture and even diamond rings, explore Dublin in 3-D, and take one of our ingenious guided walking tours . . .  Just some of the innovative things you will be able to do at the CreativeD interactive showcase.

The one-day event is part of the Innovation Dublin Festival, on Thursday, November 18, in Dublin’s Mansion House, Oak Room.  Drop in, and you can engage with some of Dublin’s most interactive and creative people; to learn about leading edge technologies and processes and explore how they can contribute to making Dublin a more vibrant, creative and cultural place.

Whether it’s rapid prototyping processes, virtual shopfront, data visulaisation, augmented reality, new apps and web design methodologies, or how acting can improve you business, the CreativeD showcase promises to be a more fascinating and enlighting experience.

The CreativeD showcase is free and open to all. So if you have a few minutes to spare between 11:00 am and 2:00pm on Thursday 18th November, pop into the Oak Room, say hello and get involved! And we look forward to meeting you there.

This great festival promises 11 days packed with new and innovative ideas for Dublin. And we are delighted that our Dublin tours were selected as a highlight in the festival programme (check out the centre page spread!). 

You can choose from the Science Safari, our free guided walking tour to the fascinating science heritage at Trinity College, Dublin . . . and our geology walking tour of Dublin’s streets and stones.

Already, we’ve been delighted at the number of you who have been downloading our tours — obviously you are hardy people, happy to do a walking tour in the middle of November!

A free guided walking tour, exploring the city’s fossils, cobblestones, Georgian windows, Victorian railings, and much more.

Join Mary Mulvihill for this guided tour of Dublin’s geology and building stones. This is a special event for Heritage Week and marks the launch of our new audio guide to ‘Dublin on the Rocks’.

Booking essential, max two tickets per person. Now FULLY BOOKED