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The seventh recording for the Sports Radio for Peace series will take place in the Tower Hotel, Omeath on Thursday 10th February at 7.00pm. All welcome.

The Enda McGuill Suite in Oriel Park was the venue for the launch of Sports Radio for Peace on 24th August. Representatives from soccer, gaelic, ice hockey and athletics attended and took part in a lively discussion hosted by Dundalk FM's Michael Duffy. The first in the series of 10 programmes was  broadcast on Saturday 4th September at 2pm and its now available on www.dundalkfm.com as a podcast.

SPORTS RADIO FOR PEACE

11 August 2010

Cross Border Sports Radio Series to launch in Dundalk

A unique series of ten sports programmes will take place over the next few months courtesy of Dundalk FM in collaboration with Sports for Peace programme. These sports programmes will invite some of the prominent heads of sports societies both in the North of Ireland and the border counties to discuss how sport has been a key factor to finding peace in Ireland. The panel will consist of four members of different sports organisations that have experienced first hand the problems that exist while trying to bring communities of various ethnic, religious or political backgrounds together to play sport, they will speak of the various projects they undertook and how the became successful and what strides they had to take in order to ensure they remained a success.

The first of these programmes combined with the offical launch will take place next Tuesday 24th August at 7:30pm in the Enda McGuill suite, Oriel Park on the Carrick Road.

Members of local sports organisations will be attending to ensure to put questions to the panel and to experience a unique sporting project taking place. The programme will then be broadcast on Dundalk FM 100 and  on community radio stations troughout Ireland and Northern Ireland. Members of the public are welcome to join the audience.

Sports Radio for Peace is supported by the European Union’s PEACE III programme as awarded by Louth Peace and Reconciliation Partnership. For more details log onto www.dundalkfm.com or call Alan Byrne at Dundalk FM 042 9395100 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .