Local and Global

NEARfm is both local and global in that we wish to use information technology to allow local people develop their communications skills and achieve their communications needs. While, at the same time, using new information technology, such as the Internet, to link our community with other communities around the world to share information and support each other.

To these ends, NEAR fm is part of the Irish Community Radio Forum, the emerging Irish community radio network, we are also affiliated to A.M.A.R.C.-Europe, and AMARC International, a global network of community radio stations similar to our own.

In this way, we are linked through aspirations and technology to similar community groups across the planet in an organically growing web committed to human rights, environmental rescue and cultural diversity.

And finally, can we paraphrase what James Joyce told Seamus Heaney:

"Let go, let fly, forget.
You’ve listened long enough.
Now strike your note.
You are fasted now, light-headed,
Dangerous,
Take off from here …….
….it’s time to swim out on your
own and fill the elements
with signatures on your own
frequency."……

Seamus Heaney. ‘Station Island’ Section XIL.

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