'This documentary looks back on the career of Bunny Cox, the late Dundalk jockey, breeder and trainer, and one of the North East's greatest horsemen. He rode his first winner at the age of 13, was Irish champion amateur jockey on 5 occasions, and then went one to carve out a successful training career. Furthermore his family were synonymous with the town, and were one of the biggest employers in Dundalk for many years. The programme is presented and produced by Colm Corrigan.' Hosted on Acast. S...
May 06, 2025•55 min
OUR TY STUDENTS TOOK TO THE AIRWAYS AS PART OF LEARNING WAVES TY MEDIA WEEK FOR 2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 28 min
This is the story of Drogheda United’s incredible 2024 season when they won the FAI Cup for only the second time in their history, qualified for European football and retained their place in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland. It’s extra special when you consider that Drogheda’s players were mostly part-time, in a league where all of the other clubs boasted fully professional squads. No one envisaged what was to come in July, as the team were cut adrift at the foot of the Premier Divi...
Feb 03, 2025•42 min
Stories from the Boyne A 1-hour radio documentary for LMFM Radio Funded by Coimisiún na Meán with the Television Licence Fee Stories from the Boyne, a new radio documentary by Little Road Productions Ltd., will broadcast at 12noon on Thursday December 26th 2024 on LMFM Radio. Stories from the Boyne is a one-hour radio documentary that traverses the river’s winding bends as it flows through Louth and Meath from its mouth at Mornington to the Mary McAleese bridge, with all interviews taking place ...
Jan 10, 2025•46 min
A Fiver for a Tenor A one-hour radio documentary for LMFM Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee A Fiver for a Tenor , a new one-hour radio documentary from Little Road Productions Ltd., will broadcast at 12noon on Monday October 25th on LMFM . A ‘Fiver for a Tenor’ is a one-hour radio documentary that will transport us back to May 1963, when a then unknown tenor took to the stage of the Town Hall, Dundalk for his first ever solo performance not in an ope...
Jan 10, 2025•46 min
The Death Lady’s Cottage A one-hour radio documentary for LMFM Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee This one-hour documentary explores the life of Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross who came up with what could be the most famous psychological model in existence: The Five Stages of Grief, also known as the Kübler-Ross model. The documentary delves into her life as a researcher and thinker, but with particular interest in her strange connection with Ireland—for nea...
Jan 10, 2025•46 min
Born in Meath, Made in Hollywood A 1-hour radio documentary for LMFM Radio Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee Born in Meath, Made in Hollywood, a new radio documentary by Little Road Productions Ltd., will broadcast at 12noon on Monday December 26th 2022 on LMFM Radio. Only 13 actors of Irish descent boast stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and very few realise that 3 of those were brothers (Owen, Matt and Tom Moore) who hailed from Fordstown, Co. Me...
Jan 10, 2025•46 min
740 & Counting: Collette O’Hagan, Marathon Woman A one-hour radio documentary for LMFM Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee ‘740 & Counting: Collette O’Hagan, Marathon Woman’, a new one-hour radio documentary from Little Road Productions Ltd., will broadcast at 12noon on Monday Oct 26th at LMFM . Since October 2017, Collette O’Hagan from Dundalk has held the title of becoming the first woman in Ireland to complete 500 marathons. 3 years later in...
Jan 10, 2025•46 min
Whatever Happened to Gertrude Page? A 1-hour radio documentary for LMFM Radio Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee Whatever Happened to Gertrude Page? , a new radio documentary by Chris Nikkel for Little Road Productions Ltd., will broadcast at 12noon on Monday October 31st 2022 on LMFM Radio. Gertrude Page has been called the Maeve Binchy of her day. She’s also been called, ‘the Kipling of Rhodesia’, the country she lived out the last two decades of he...
Jan 10, 2025•46 min
Have Tyre, Will Travel: Brian Bell, Ultra Runner A one-hour radio documentary for LMFM Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee ‘Have Tyre, Will Travel: Brian Bell, Ultra Runner’, a new one-hour radio documentary from Little Road Productions Ltd., will broadcast at 12noon on Monday 1st June at LMFM. Brian Bell has experienced the world in a way that many of us could never even imagine. From the Amazon jungle to the top of the Himalayas and from the Arctic t...
Jan 10, 2025•47 min
McClintock: The Forgotten Explorer A one-hour radio documentary for LMFM Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee McClintock: The Forgotten Explorer , a new one-hour radio documentary from Little Road Productions Ltd., will broadcast at 11am on Monday August 2nd on LMFM . 2019 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, a Dundalk native and someone whose name should be as well-known as Ernest Shackleton and Tom Crean as one ...
Jan 10, 2025•46 min
Each year we invite TY students into LMFM to create their own show , on matters that are important to them Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 13, 2024•1 hr 16 min
‘The Big House’ holds an important place in Ireland’s rich history and heritage, with many dating back to the 17th century. Many abandoned and destroyed ‘Big Houses’ still litter the countryside, full of memories and stories long since forgotten. Left victim to the elements and a shadow of what they once were, for many, these stately homes have become symbols of a former divided society. Using interviews with both locals and historians recorded on location at these now abandoned houses, this one...
Jul 29, 2024•46 min
The Big House - Dadventures Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 23, 2024•49 min
LMFM CLASSICAL HOUR - NAVAN CHORAL & INSTRUMENTAL FESTIVAL Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 20, 2024•15 min
Funded by Coimisiún na Meán with the Television Licence Fee Louth’s Hidden Musical Gem, a new radio documentary by Little Road Productions Ltd., will broadcast at 12noon on Tuesday December 26th 2023 on LMFM Radio. Standing tall in the choir loft of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dundalk since 1900, the pipe organ created by the world-renowned Henry Willis and Sons pipe organ builders in the UK has had many musicians and composers caress its keys since Henry Lucas Balfour, organist at the Royal Alber...
Jan 09, 2024•46 min
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Jan 07, 2024•1 hr
LMFM's TY Media Week in association with Learning Waves and the BAI. The TY students have been busy learning all things radio and have produced their OWN radio programme which was broadcast live on Easter Monday. Congratulations to all who took part! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 14, 2023•1 hr 16 min
Mike Bunn, the renowned photographer, who celebrates his 80th Birthday this year, recalls moments from a remarkable life in conversation with Gerry Kelly. Yes the man behind the lens is In Camera for once in his life.... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 31, 2022•46 min
"Joey" tells the story of former World Handball champion Joey Maher, looking back on the Drogheda native's career and the many interests he had away from the alley. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 20, 2022•53 min
Did you know that Migraine is the 7th most debilitating condition in the World, affecting up to 12% of the population! On a personal level Neuroscientist, Dr Sabina Brennan, knows all about Migraine and has encountered it extensively through her work. She wants to bust the myth that Migraine is just a headache but rather a neurological condition that can be treated and requires greater understanding all round. For the next hour, Dr Sabina Brennan shines a light on Migraine with her Documentary “...
Mar 21, 2022•46 min
He was an Irish revolutionary who went on to become one of the founders of Canada and was assassinated by the Fenians. The documentary, ‘Thomas D’arcy McGee: Irish Rebel, Canadian Patriot’ tells the story of this remarkable Carlingford man. Hear this remarkable documentary LMFM Monday December 30th at 12 noon. Produced for LMFM by Jim Doherty, funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television licence fee. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 06, 2020•46 min
The year is 1809 in the city of London where Laurence Gilson from Oldcastle, County Meath is writing his last Will and Testament. It is an endowment that will have far reaching consequences for thousands of people across north Meath, Cavan, Westmeath and beyond, for more than two hundred years. Hear the story the story of Laurence Gilson and the educational legacy he left in his home town." On Dec 31st from 12 noon here on LMFM. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 06, 2020•45 min
The story of well-known Councillor and former Mayor Frank Godfrey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 25, 2019•45 min
'Jim Craven: A Dynamic Genius’ explores the life and works of Jim Craven (1935–1980), a Dundalk poet inspired by Kavanagh and referred to by John B Keane as 'a dynamic genius’. Born into a large family, he lived in the townland of Balregan in the Parish of Faughart, just a few miles north of Dundalk. The townland where he spent most of his life resulted in one of his local nicknames becoming the ‘Bard of Balregan’. Many also referred to him as the ‘Laureate of Louth’. His poetry explored many th...
Apr 21, 2019•46 min
A one hour documentary by local production company Little Road Productions. On October 14th 1918, as the SS Dundalk sailed from Liverpool out into the Irish sea, tragedy struck when it was hit by a German torpedo and spilt in two. Nineteen people from Louth were killed. 2018 marked the centenary of the tragedy and with a special 100th anniversary committee set up to commemorate those who lost their lives on board that fateful night, this one-hour radio documentary explores the tragic events of 1...
Mar 19, 2019•46 min
Presented and produced by Colm Corrigan, this programme takes a look back on the music career or Ardee's most famous son, Dermot O'Brien . Always remembered as Louth's football winning captain of 1957, there was much more to this multi-talented man, and in the years which followed his football success, he cut out a hugely successful career through singing and his skills on the accordion. This programme retraces that music success, with contributions from family members, fellow musicians and clos...
Dec 27, 2018•56 min
The Story of the Beatles...Continued Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 27, 2018•10 sec
The Story of the band Queen from the beginning, taking in that famous date 13th July 1985 and Live Aid. Concluding with the untimely death of frontman Freddie Mercury in 1991 aged 45. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 27, 2018•7 sec
Queen from the beginning...Continued Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 27, 2018•9 sec
