Episodes
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1: Screening of 'Lost In Lebanon' in #UCD - Profoundly moving exposing hellish suffering of Syrian refugees and incredible difference finding asylum makes
A letter which a Syrian refugee wrote to the organiser Eileen Boyle of the screening in UCD recently of the acclaimed documentary 'Lost In Lebanon' proved deeply affecting. So disappointed at not being able to attend the Syrian who wrote the letter worked through the night to ensure it could be...
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1: Irish Woman Learns First Hand In Lebanon About The Fears of Refugees of Being Forcibly Returned to Syria
Eileen Boyle went to Lebanon at her own expense recently as part of a delegation investigating the plight of Syrian refugees and in this interview with filmmaker Anne Daly, co-producer of the film SYRIA - THE IMPOSSIBLE REVOLUTION, she spoke of her experiences and what she found. Today many...
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2: This is still happening in Idlib in 2019 – ‘For Sama’ Chilling Reminder 1 Million Children Facing Another Aleppo
Audience hold up posters STOP BOMBING HOSPITALS following discussion after screening of Waad al-Kateab’s compelling FOR SAMA in the IFI’s Cinema 1 (Sept.14, 2019). Filmmaker Anne Daly co-producer with Ronan Tynan of the award winning SYRIA – THE IMPOSSIBLE REVOLUTION captured the very strong...
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1: Legendary War Photographer Paul Conroy and Yassin Al Haj Saleh 'Conscience of the Revolution' and Author Talk About 'The Future of Syria' In Trinity College Dublin
Legendary war photographer Paul Conroy and Yassin Al Haj Saleh widely regarded by many as the ‘Conscience of the Revolution’ discuss the future of Syria as the Syrian Regime with Russia target civilians in Idlib and continue to bomb hospitals after several even destroyed after the UN supplied...
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1: 'STOP THE SLAUGHTER IN IDLIB' - Protest by Irish Syria Solidarity Movement Outside EU Offices in Dublin
As the Syrian regime with Russia backed by Iran are engaged in a scorched earth campaign against civilians in Idlib bombing hospitals schools and all vital human services in an already war ravaged region, members of the Irish Syrian Solidarity Movement protested outside the EU Commission offices…
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1: Court Finds Assad Murdered Sunday Times Journalist Marie Colvin - Ronan Tynan spoke to the lawyers about this historic case prior to the judgement
Prior to the court finding that Assad murdered Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin, Ronan Tynan spoke with the lawyers involved in taking what will almost certainly prove to be an historic judgement, and could help prevent the Syrian dictatorship accessing funds to rebuild their brutal regime.…
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1: Courageous Syrian Human Rights Lawyer Who Helped Make History Ending Impunity For Warcriminals In Syria
Perhaps the most historic breakthrough in ending impunity for warcriminals and those engaged in crimes against humanity took place recently in Germany, yet it has received little or no media attention. Anne Daly and Ronan Tynan in Berlin for the premiere of their documentary 'Syria - The…
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1: How Syria's Assad regime steals billions in UN humanitarian aid - Interview with Dr Annie Sparrow paediatrician & world renowned humanitarian
In this Esperanza Productions podcast we meet world renowned humanitarian and paediatrician Dr Annie Sparrow who has helped save thousands of children’s lives through vaccination programmes in Syria. Dr Sparrow was in Dublin recently as a guest of the Irish Syria Solidarity Movement and came to...
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1: The White Helmets - Constant Target of Assad & Russia in Idlib and East Ghouta
Syria Civil Defence - the White Helmets are being increasingly targeted by the Assad regime and Russia in Idlib and East Ghouta. Bassem Fadhali one of the latest killed while working to rescue a family died in yet another infamous double tap attack by the Assad regime and Russia. The notorious...
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Syrian Human Rights Activists Remembered on International Human Rights Day
As horror and unimaginable terror confronts civilians in Aleppo trapped and unable to leave because of Assad regime/Russian aerial bombardment and intense fighting for the last main stronghold held by Syrian rebel groups. Last night in Dublin as thousands of pre Christmas shoppers headed for home...
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Moving Protest Against Bombing of Aleppo Outside Russian Embassy - Dublin
"Its in our DNA being Irish" through "famine and war" that Ireland identifes with the Syrian people, one protester Denis Lucey who travelled over 130 miles from Cork said at protest outside Russian embassy in Dublin on Thursday, October 6, 2016. The protest against Russia's bombing of Aleppo...
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'End the Sieges - Stop the Bombing' - Politicians urged to condemn Syrian Slaughter
In an effort to get Irish politicians to focus on the crisis in Syria with civilian casualties increasing at an alarming rate on a daily basis The Irish Syria Solidarity held a protest vigil outside Lenister House - Ireland's parliament on Thursday, April 28, 2016. The aim was to try and engage…
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Drug Gang Wars & Lawlessness Why People Fleeing Central America for the U.S.
While most media is focused on the refugee crisis in the Middle East, especially Syria, spilling over into the European Union, another large-scale migration crisis in Central America gets far too little attention with many seeking to flee Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua for the...
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The Untold Story of One Million Syrians Still Under Siege
Across Syria almost one million people are caught under siege mostly by the Assad regime in appalling conditions, with even children enduring especially horrific suffering in what amounts to an untold story as Anna Nolan, the Director of the Syria Campaign in the United States, told Anne Daly in...
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Ireland Remembers Berta Cáceres, Murdered Honduran Indigenous Leader & Environmental Activist at Protest in Dublin
Saturday April 16, 2016 Ireland remembered the courageous Honduran indigenous leader and environmental activist Berta Careres assassinated at her home on March 3rd. At a demonstration in Dublin city centre there were calls for Berta's killers to be brought to justice, and an end to the brutal...
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Irish and Syrians gather at the the GPO in Dublin on the 100th Anniversary of Ireland's Revolution to draw attention to the abandonment of the Syrian People
In Dublin on the 5th anniversary of the brutal suppression of a peaceful uprising by Bashar al-Assad that led to five years of war in Syria, Anne Daly met Irish and Syrians who came together to draw attention to the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time. They gathered outside the GPO – the...
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Syrian Doctor who lost 30 members of his family - "we have been abandoned"
“I told you what would happen four years ago if Bashar al Assad remained in power,’ Dr. Hassan Rajab a Syrian born gynecologist who has lost thirty family members at the hands of the Assad regime. Esperanza’s Anne Daly met him at his clinic in Dublin’s Rotunda Maternity Hospital and he was barely...
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People Rally in Dublin to Reject Pegida - German Anti-Islamic Group Trying to Set-Up in Ireland
People took to the streets of Dublin (Sat. 6 Feb., 2016) to reject Pegida, the German anti-Islamic group trying to establish a base in Ireland. Pegida - "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West" - first emerged in Dresden two years ago to campaign against the "Islamisation of...
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"We are going to survive together or die together" - stories of courage, terror and desperation - what drives Syrian refugees to take the dangerous route to Europe
Just back after a two week stint as a volunteer in a transit camp in Croatia Dr Bronagh Catiusic of the Irish Syria Solidarity Movement has urged European governments including Ireland to embrace refugees. The stories she heard and the incredible lengths many had taken to escape war and…
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"Submit or Starve" - Assad
“In Syria one million people are being systematically starved as a weapon of war and no one seems to know about it. This was the message from “The Break the Sieges” - a campaigning online organisation which is focusing world attention on what they say is “one of the most cruel and hidden sides of...
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"Assad a symbol who fuels violence in Syria" Dr Farouq Habib
During his recent visit to Ireland at the invitation of the Irish Syria Solidarity Movement Dr Farouq Habib said that as much as he wished for peace this was not possible while Syrian President Bashar al Assad remained in power. The former banker who now directly helps the White Helmets in Syria...
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"What is a barrel bomb"? - Assad's Weapon of Terror
Dr Farouq Habib came to Ireland at the invitation of the Irish Syria Solidarity Movement to talk about the horrific and unimaginable cruelty faced by Syrian civilians on a daily basis, especially from President Assad's barrel bombing campaign against his own people. Uniquely able to speak about...
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''Alive they took them, alive we want them'
A year today 43 students from a rural teachers college in Ayotzinapa in the Mexican state of Guerrero disappeared. To date, nobody knows what happened on the night of September 26, 2014, when the students disappeared while traveling from Ayotzinapa to the nearby city of Iguala. However Video...
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Slaughter in Syria - Assad's Barrel Bombs More Deadly than Isis
Create Safe Zones and end the Barrel Bombing. This was the stark message delivered to Irish politicians by Syrians living in Ireland at a protest held outside the Dail (Irish Parliament) last night. Organised by the Irish Syria Solidarity Movement the focus was on why 'Syrians are Refugees. '...
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'Gaza on Gaza' Art Exhibition in London Made Possible By Channel 4's Jon Snow
‘Gaza on Gaza’ is a very unique exhibition by Palestinian artists in response to the suffering inflicted on so many by the conflict last year. Most of the pieces are by children and teenagers with one installation – “If I Wasn’t There” - featuring 400 drawings on pieces of paper torn from cement...
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Artists explore life on the move for the 50 million forcefully displaced across the globe
Forty artists working across visual art, photography, film, live art, performance and design were brought together by 'Counterpoints Arts' for an exhibition aptly entitled 'Dis/Placed' about the millions of people uprooted often violently everyday. Many of the artists have first hand experience…
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Protest in London demands action on Yarmouk - "Deepest Circle of Hell"
Friends and family members of those still caught in Yarmouk between the barbarism of ISIS and the savagery of Assad without food, medical help, water or electricity spoke at a moving protest in the shadow of the Palace of Westminster in London on Tuesday evening (14 April, 2015.) They appealed to...
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'Planet Syria' - Syrian peace campaigners ask "Earth Is Anybody Out There' as supporters gather in Dublin
"Earth is anybody out there” is the powerful and evocative call from the newly formed ‘Planet Syria’ a group of non-violent activists who vehemently oppose Syria’s peaceful uprising being brutally repressed by Assad and equally cruelly stolen by ISIS. In Dublin, like in many other cities and…
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In Praise of Slow - Best selling Author Carl Honore on why Slow is the new Fast
The world is stuck in fast forward – and we’re paying a heavy price in terms of our health, stress at work, and the pressure never to switch off and always be contactable. Carl Honore journalist and author of “In Praise of Slow’ his bestselling book, which examines our society’s addiction to…
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People deeply affected by Syria's brutal war gather in London to mark 4th Anniversary of Peaceful Uprising
Four years after a peaceful uprising in Syria sparked by the torture of children by the brutal regime of Bashar al Assad, the country has been turned into literal ruins as the world bloodiest war continues. Assad responded to that peaceful uprising through a very violent military crackdown that...
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Syria Four Years On - A Syrian Voice For Peace
While it might seem impossible to be optimistic about Syria when one looks at the horrific statatics, one Syrian woman refuses to accept the Syrian people will fail to overcome their grim current bloody divisions. What began four years ago as a national peaceful protest against President Basheer…
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"Guantanamo Diary" 14 Years Inside and One Innocent Man Still Battling for Freedom
“Guantanamo Diary” is an extraordinary jail journal. The work of Mohamedou Ould Slahi who handwrote the 122,000 word diary. For the past fourteen years he has been a prisoner in the notorious US detention camp in Guantanamo Cuba. The diary, a declassified memoir that was released after an eight...
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Stories from El Salvador - Play about coming to terms with bloody Civil War
"Stories From Santa Marta" is a sensitive yet highly provocative play written and directed by Bethan McEvoy who spent 12 months working in El Salvador researching the production. The play was performed last night at the Rich-Mix Theatre in London. Using testimonies, true stories and interviews...
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Occupy Movement Protests Outside Parliament at Westminster This Weekend
A small but passionate group of Occupy Movement protesters staged a weekend sit in outside parliament in London's Westminster. On a very wet Sunday morning Anne Daly went to meet them in the midst of a very heavy police presence. Anne Daly is co-founder of award winning independent production...
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Emma Thompson and Vivienne Westwood London Climate March
In advance of UN Climate Summit several marches were held around the world with one of the biggest in London led by actress Emma Thompson and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. Anne Daly of Esperanza Productions joined the marchers and spoke to Emma Thompson and Vivienne Westwood about why we…
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Gerry Conlon Memorial in Support of Chelsea Manning.
A special event was held in Dublin's Teachers Club last Thursday to celebrate the life of the late Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four organised by AFRI – the human rights group. Gerry Conlon spoke very memorably about Bradley now Chelsea Manning when he spoke in Dublin last November, and many...
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"Mothers Against The Odds" described as an "excellent, superb" documentary by legendary Magdalenes campaign Cllr. Sally Mulready launching film free on-line in Muxima at the Roman Road Festival London
The Speaker of the Hackney Borough Council Sharon Patrick and close friend of legendary Magdalenes campaign Cllr Sally Mulready admitted she had never heard of Ireland's symphysiotomy scandal, although very well informed from her friend Cllr Sally Mulready about other Irish scandals from that era...
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Leading Media Analyst Says Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk and John Pilger Got It Wrong on Syria
How could some of our journalistic heroes like Seymour Hersch, John Pilger and Robert Fisk get their coverage of the Syria conflict so wrong, even accused of blaming the opposition for warcrimes committed by the Assad regime? Academic and media analyst Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, who exposed as false…
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"Why is our blood so cheap" - Syrian at protest against Assad's 'Blood Elections'
In Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday (May 31, 2014) Syrians and their friends and supporters who make up the Syrian Solidarity Movement held a demonstration to protest against what they call President Bashar al-Assad 'blood elections' on Tuesday. 'I don't know why our blood is so cheap" one...
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Leading Syrian scholar says President Bashar al-Assad released hard line jihadists from prison knowing they would join the opposition and fight against him because he cannot survive without them as propaganda shield
In spite of a devastating civil war that has left over 150,000 dead, 6 million displaced and over 9.3 million Syrians in need of immediate life saving support President Bashar al-Assad will hold Presidential elections next Sunday. Buoyed by recent military gains, Assad is seeking a third seven…
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Dublin Famine Memorial Protest in Solidarity with People Starving in 'Food Sieges' in Syria
This week is the third anniversary of the Syrian Revolution, a conflict which began when a peaceful demonstration against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was brutally repressed by his armed forces. Three years on and with no end in sight the war has been described as the world's worst…
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Yogic Monk and Author: "Capitalism has had its day"
Dada Maheshvarananda is a US born yogic monk, activist and writer who believes capitalism has had its day. In his latest book 'After Capitalism: Economic Democracy in Action' he argues that people need to get ready for a post capitalist world. Director of the Prout Institute in Venezuala where he...
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Ireland: Protest in Dublin to pressure Russia on Syria
Russia is alleged to be implicated in crimes against humanity in Syria through its support for the Assad regime not least through its vetoes with China in the UN Security Council where it has sought to prevent criticism of President Assad and his regime. A protest outside the Russian Embassy in...
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"Remembering Ann Lovett" - Poets, Academics, Journalists and Students with Singer/Songwriter Christy Moore - 15 year old who died alone giving birth
It is thirty years since the death of Ann Lovett – the fifteen year old school girl from Grandard, Co. Roscommon, who died alone trying to give birth beside a statue to the Virgin Mary in a church grotto. Her death shocked Ireland at the time and led to an outpouring of grief and a national…
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AIMS says mothers must become more aware of their rights after four babies die in Midlands Hospital
"Fatal Failures" RTE 1 Primetime Documentary which investigated the deaths of four babies in six years at the Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise has highlighted what happens when women's rights are not respected when they seek to give birth. Documentary film maker and journalism lecturer Anne...
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Syrian Student from Homs talks about the pain in watching her country torn apart by war
The horror and terrible pain endured by Syrians watching their country being consumed in a brutal war is revealed in this interview by Anne Daly with 19 year old Journalism Student Walaa Ajjawi. A student at Griffith College Dublin Ajjawi is one of many hundreds of thousands of Syrian who feel...
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Gang rape and sexualised torture key weapons of Assad's militia in Syria
Rafif Jouejati Spokesperson for the Local Co-Ordination Committees in Syria spoke at a public meeting in Dublin about the rape crisis in Syria - an horrific part of the war Assad in particular has unleashed against his own people. 'Rape as Weapon of War - What Should Ireland Do?' was the question...
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Irish Singer/Songwriters Support Syria's courageous Journalists, Netizens & Bloggers
The 2nd Dublin Singer/Songwriters Showcase was held in the Bernard Shaw recently. The Showcase was started by Singer/Songwriters Ronan Tynan and Ger Supple and amongst the performers was well known Green Party politician Dan Boyle a noted singer/songwriter in his own right. The event was…
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Public Meeting on Syria opens debate about ending EU Arms Embargo during Ireland's EU Presidency
'Syria: We must stop the slaughter: But How?' was the topic for discussion at a public meeting organised by the Irish Syrian Solidarity Campaign in conjunction with the Journalism Faculty at Griffith College Dublin recently. Addressed by Walid Saffour, the Representative of the Syria National...
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