Live interview with irish singer/songwriter Sarah Murray

Interview with Sarah Murray on Irish Radio International

Interview with Carole Brennan from Mixed Race Irish

Justice for Mixed Race Irish podcast from The New rebels programme on IRI

Interview for the New Rebels on Irish Radio INternational with three teenagers from Bandon, Co.Cork in Ireland who love rapping.

Bandon Rappers Interview And Raps

An interview for my new Migrants in Ireland podcast with tanzanian Salim and Emmerald who live in West Cork and who are part of the team that is organising the Cork African Film Festival

Interview with Salim and Emmerald about Life in West-Cork and the Cork African Film Festival

Interview with the inspiring couple from Cork, Tony and Cordelia Oseh about their upcoming event , the multi cultural night

Cordelia And Tony Oseh

Interview with Joan Walsh of the Crossing Borders initiative

Joan Walsh talks about Crossing Borders on the Terrace

Lord Mayor Mary Shields of the CIty of Cork talks about her year in the office. and takes a firm stance against racism

Lord Mayor Of Cork Mary Shields takes a Stance against racism

An interview iwth rapper King Jay Boris who is an asylum seeker in Ireland and is an unaccompanied minor staying in Direct Provision.
Boris ends the interview with his own rap 
The backing track is composed and performed by Mc Macca from Cork.

King Jay J Boris, rapper and unaccompanied  minor asylum seeker from Rwanda in Direct Provison

Rap. Lyrics by King Jay J Boris
Tracks by Mc Macca

Oceans of Tears I Cried by King Jay J Boris

Barnabas Agorh, who is from Nigeria talks about his life in Ireland and his memories of Biafra that lead him to become a prominent figure in the Biafran cause

Barnabas Agorh, Nigerian and proud Biafran

Ini Usanga didn't come to Ireland by choice. She tells us her story of migration , reproductive abuse ,her will to survive and  the new life she is living.
Please support her charity organisation www.facebook.com/loveandcareforpeople

Ini Obong Usanga tells her story of forced migration

René Perrin comes from Cameroon. He couldn't cope with the harsh regime and the bad life circumstances there, so he decided to seek a better life and came to Ireland in 2000. Listen to René's story and his plans for a brilliant party in Cork

René Perrin from Cameroon works hard and loves to party

Phindile from Johannesberg in South Africa talks about how and why she came to Ireland and her difficult time in direct provision, she also treats us to a song from home Shosholoza.

Phindile from South Africa on how and why she came to Ireland

Tinyiko has been in Ireland for just over a year now, he talks about how his perceptions have changed. Not just of Ireland but also of his own country.


Tinyiko Chauke talks about racism, xenophobia and  his impressions after one year in Ireland.

Pamela Marshall tells us her migration story and also talks about Greece

Pamela Marshall 's story of Migration and her views on the problems in Greece

Taoufik Hammammi talks to me again, two years after his first interview. He has made his business a true success through hard work and perseverence

The success story of Tunesian Taoufik Hammami in Cork

Nqobizita Fortune Sibanda describes how he arrived in Ireland aged 18 and made his way through school and college to start up his own business, The Lab TV Ireland

Nqobizita Fortune Sibanda launches Lab-TV

Three members of Ghostface Music talk about their long wait for refugee status and the single they are releasing to raise funds for the Irish Refugee Council and the Calais Refugees.
You can support them on http://www.idonate.ie/ghostfacemusic30

Ghostface Music  talks about the release of their fundraising single Cloud above me

Interview with Cian O'Sullivan and Orla of Amnesty International Cork and UCC about the gig for Ibrahim Wahala, an Irish citizen who is a prisoner of conscience in Egypt.

IRI interview with Cian and Orla from Amnesty International Cork and UCC about Ibrahim Halawa

Interview for Irish radio International, where I have my show The New Rebels. This is an interview with Christian from Congo Brazaville and Lucky form SA about Direct provision in Ireland, what they think politiians should do about it and how social workers could help.


Interview with asylum seekers Christian And Lucky about Direct Provision in Ireland

My interview for Irish Radio International's The New Rebels with Nomaxabiso from South Africa, who arrived in Ireland 7 years ago, has passed through the horrible Direct Provision system, and is now working hard to settle down in Ireland and  Ibou from Senegal who took the dangerous trip in a fishing boat from Senegal to Spain and is now also settlig in Ireland with his Spanish girlfriend.
Music by Miriam Makeba and Inna Modja Tombouctou

Nomaxabiso from South Africa  and Ibou from Senegal

As a part of my presentation for the Socials workers association in Cork, I thought it would be best to let the Asylum seekers speak for themselves. I made this compilation of interview highlights from the interviews I have done over the past 2 years with asylum seekers. The message is clear: Direct Provision has to end!
With music from Ghostface Music and King Jay Boris

End Direct Provision interview highlights from the last few months

Tinyiko Chauke talks about his new blog http://africanstoriessite.wordpress.com, in which he writes about his continent and tries to change perceptions on my program The New Rebels ,at  Irish Radio International.

Interview on IRI The New rebels with Tinyiko Chauke about his blog, African Stories

A very vibrant committee is organising this year's Africa Day celebrations in Cork, Ireland.
Irish Radio International are official partners for the event on May 28th. This is the interview with two of the organising committee. They talk about their own African identity, having been born in Europe, and the importance of keeping that connection with Africa.

Africa Day; interview with Sergio Armaie and Edward kennedy of the Cork organising Committee

John Hayes, the artistic director of No Borders, which is taking place in the Everyman Palace in Cork on June 7th. It consists of 6 one-act plays, 2 poems and one musical act. The play was created as a from of solidarity with refugees. There will be a question and answer session after the show.
This is a fundraiser for Anti Deportation Ireland

John Hayes , artistic director of the show No Borders

Africa Day

The opening address by mrs.Remi Kolawole and the opening speech by the Ethiopian Abassador to Ireland, ms. Lela-Alem Gebreyohanes Tedla

Africa Day Conference Intro by Remi Kolawole and speech by Mrs. Lela-Alem Gebreyohanes Tedla

Tinyiko Chauke, author of the blog African Stories (http://africanstoriessite.wordpress.com) talks on the Africa Day Cork 2016 conference. 
A reflection of African unity, progress and challenges in the past 53 years 

AfricaDayConference 2016 Tinyiko Chauke

Ibrahim escaped his town in Syria after it had been bombed. Nothing in his old home is left. He escaped with his family. He tells us the story here. Ibraim now lives in Cork, Ireland with his parents. His brother lives in Lebanon, his siter in Lybia.
Ibrahim is acting in 'No Borders' a series of plays and musical acts to raise funds for the Island to Island charity.

Ibrahim Rema from Syria talks about his escape from Syria, his Life in Ireland

Mahwish is a Pakistani mother of three who arrived in Ireland with her husband and three children a year and a half ago. She has been living in the Millstreet Drishane Castle Accommodation centre since June last year, and talks about the challenges and also about a fundraiser she is organising for school books, uniforms, etc for the children who are staying there. 
Drishane castle houses up to 300 asylum seekers.

Mahwish Rauf talks about the challenges of Direct Provision in Millstreet, especially for children

interviews with asylum seekers in Ireland about the very restrictive new Right To work, and a reaction from Nasc in Cork.
The asylum seekers are talking about how they are being exploited as they have no choice but to work for people who exploit them.
Extracts of music by Tiken Jah Fakoly (Plus rien ne m'etonne), Emel Mathlouti ( Kelmti Horra)and Alex Boye (More Than A Refugee)

Asylum seekers talk about their Right to Work

4 More Asylum seekers in Ireland react to the new Right to Work rule and tell us about their own experiences, the work they have done and how they are being abused.

Music : Cloud Above Me by Ghost record Music

Asylum seekers talk about their right to work-part two

I went to another Direct Provision Centre, this one is situated in the Middle of Nowhere. 
I was struck by the depressed mood of every person I spoke to. 
They talked to me about the disappointment of the new Right To Work directive and about the mental pressures they are under. 
Have a listen. 

Music: Jeena To Hai titlesong by Asim Raza (Pakistan)
            Indzawo Yami (It's My Place) by Bholoja (Swaziland)

Asylum seekers on the right to work and the mental stress of living in Direct Provision

Interview on 96FM opinionline with PJ Coogan.about the clothes distribution ban in KRAC

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Jamming with Basil on the Oud.

Translation: ( talking about the City of Sanctuary Movement)
I would like to be at these meetings, tbh. Because I would like to ask them all this question: do you realise how it feels to work, to give your soul, your heart, your strength your physique, and after all this effort you made during Coronavirus, you receive a deportation letter. How would it affect you? How much trouble will that cause us, is this how the country will thank us?

Is this how the country will reward us? (just a little soundbyte I am sharing)

A little promo sound byte, promoting Windows 4 Opportunity, a fundraiser organised by a conglomeration of many charities, with the aim to buy laptops for people in Direct Provision in Ireland.
https://www.gofundme.com/manage/windows-4-opportunity

Why I support Windows-4-Opportunity

A serious outbreak of COVID19 in the Kinsale Roaad Accommodation centre has shown us once again that people in these centres are not safe. 3 residents talk about what is happening. One who tested negative and stays with his family in the centre, and one familyman who tested positif and is in isolation with his wife and 3 children, They are all showing signs, The last interviewee tested positive and has an underlying condition.

Migrants in Ireland

Serious COVID outbreak in KRAC

This is my podcast show Migrants in ireland, where I interview a migrant at least once a week about his/her  migration story and  experiences in Ireland. Hoping to get rid of prejudices and create a bit more understanding.


Migrants in Ireland

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