Episodes
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Perspectives on Prevention – Marian Quinn
In the latest episode of the Perspectives on Prevention podcast, we’re flipping the script! Our usual host, Marian Quinn, is stepping out of the interviewer’s chair and into the hot seat as our special guest. Expect insights, reflections, and a fresh perspective as she shares her own experiences...
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Perspectives on Prevention – Jonathan Doyle & Daire Hennessy
In this episode of Perspectives on Prevention, Marian Quinn meets Jonathan Doyle & Daire Hennessy, two local Tallaght community workers about their roles in CDI and Citiwise, and what it means to them and their communities. Jonathan Doyle is the Business Development Manager at CDI. He studied...
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Perspectives on Prevention – Darren Bracken
In this episode of Perspectives on Prevention, Marian Quinn meets Darren Bracken, the Trust and Safety manager with Meta. Darren grew up in Killinarden, where early experiences shaped his views on resilience, identity, and the importance of community. Now working in Trust and Safety at a global...
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Perspectives on Prevention – Teresa Heeney
In this episode of Perspectives on Prevention, Marian Quinn sits down with Teresa Heeney, CEO of Early Childhood Ireland, for a deep dive into why early intervention and prevention matter now more than ever. Teresa brings frontline insight from one of Ireland’s leading child advocacy…
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Perspectives on Prevention – Benjamin Perks
Recorded at the Prevention and Early Intervention Network summit 2025, Marian Quinn sits down with Benjamin Perks. Benjamin works for the UN in New York, campaigning on human rights and child development. They discuss population health approaches and global initiatives to tackle children’s health...
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Perspectives on Prevention – Dean Hehir live at PEIN 2025
In this special live recording of Perspectives on Prevention, Marian Quinn sits down with Dean Hehir to talk about community, compassion and the belief that your past does not have to define your future. Dean shares his story of growing up without the safety nets that prevention and early...
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Perspectives on Prevention – Elaine Reynolds
In this episode of Perspectives on Prevention we meet Elaine Reynolds from the Trinity Access Programme. Our host Marian Quinn talks to Elaine about her own return to education and how it shapes her work with others in their educational journeys. About the series Perspectives on Prevention is a...
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Perspectives on Prevention – Joe Slattery
This episode of Perspectives on Prevention was recorded before a live audience at the PEIN National Summit in Thomond Park, Limerick on September 21st 2023. Marian Quinn is in conversation with Joe Slattery, the coordinator of the North Star Project in Limerick. Joe is an addiction counsellor and...
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Perspectives on Prevention – Saoirse Brady Director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust
In this episode of Perspectives on Prevention, Saoirse Brady, Director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust, talks with Marian Quinn about the need for reform of sentencing practices, the impact of prison on families and children, and what’s needed to reduce offending. About the series Perspectives on...
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Perspectives on Prevention – Sheila Gilheaney, CEO of Alcohol Action Ireland
This episode of Perspectives on Prevention engages with Sheila Gilheaney, CEO of Alcohol Action Ireland, in which she discusses the impact of alcohol misuse on children, and shares some fascinating insights about the relationship between policy and the alcohol industry. Listeners should be aware...
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Perspectives on Prevention – Joe Slattery
This episode of Perspectives on Prevention was recorded before a live audience at the PEIN National Summit in Thomond Park, Limerick on September 21st 2023. Marian Quinn is in conversation with Joe Slattery, the coordinator of the North Star Project in Limerick. Joe is an addiction counsellor and...
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Perspectives on Prevention – Michael White
In this episode of Perspectives on Prevention, Marian Quinn talks with retired District and High Court Judge Michael White, about missed opportunities, youth offending, and sentencing options, with a focus on preventing criminal justice engagement. About the series Perspectives on Prevention is a...
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Perspectives on Prevention – Ahmed Hassan
In this episode of Perspectives on Prevention, we meet Ahmed Hassan, a Community Sponsorship support worker for the NGO, Doras based in Limerick. Ahmed has worked in areas related to youth, education, environment, peace building, gender and leaderships, including outreach roles with Paul...
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Perspectives on Prevention – Maureen Looney
In this episode of Perspectives on Prevention, we meet Maureen Looney. Maureen is a founding member of Dublin Safer Families Service which opened in Santry, County Dublin in 2017. She has worked with the Daughter’s of Charity Child and Family Service for over 20 years as a Family Worker and a...
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Perspectives on Prevention – Dr Edel McGinnity
In this episode of Perspectives on Prevention, Dr Edel McGinnity, a Dublin City GP, talks about her observations of how poverty and disadvantage impact on health outcomes, and describes the work of ‘Deep End’, an organisation supporting GPs working in disadvantaged communities. She discusses the...
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Perspectives on Prevention – Alice Malone
In this episode of Perspectives on Prevention, Marian Quinn chats with Alice Malone about her years of working in disadvantaged communities, her commitment to community development principles and what keeps her going on the tough days. About the series Perspectives on Prevention is a podcast…
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Episode 21 Hiberno Goethe: Dorothee Meyer-Holtkamp
Join us for the final episode of Hiberno Goethe with guest Dorothee Meyer-Holtkamp, the series producer and outreach coordinator of Near Media Co-op. Host Ciarán chats with Dorothee about her growing up in a small town in north Germany and her roundabout journey that led her to Ireland in the…
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Perspectives on Prevention – Dympna Cunnane
In this episode of Perspectives on Prevention, we talk with Dympna Cunnane from the Our Time programme in England. Dympna talks about the impact on children of a parent having mental health issues, and the value of giving families a language and tools to discuss an often taboo subject. For more...
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Episode 20 Hiberno Goethe: Elizabeth McSkeane
Ciaran chats to writer and publisher Elizabeth McSkeane about her Glaswegian upbringing, with pictures of the JFK, visits to Glasgow Celtic and St. Patrick’s Day traditions. We hear Liz reading works by the Irish poet living in Germany, Jo Burns, from her latest collection of poetry Brink. Liz…
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Episode 19 Hiberno Goethe: Vera Klute
This episode features multi-disciplinary artist Vera Klute. Growing up in a small village close to Dortmund in North Rhine Westphalia, Vera gives an insight to some of the area’s traditions like the three day parading at the yearly Schützenfest and having antlers or stuffed ducks hanging on the...
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Episode 18 Hiberno Goethe: Stefan Hutzler
On this month’s Hiberno Goethe, Ciarán talks to physicist Stefan Hutzler. Stefan dressed up in traditional Bavarian costume at the 2015 Ireland Germany game with his sons, and didn’t cheer when Ireland scored. Look out for the boys in red and white SSV Jahn Regensburg jerseys playing football in...
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Perspectives on Prevention – Sylda Langford
In this episode of Perspectives on Prevention, Marian Quinn talks with Sylda Langford, one of the most influential civil servants in the area of child and family services. Sylda shares her experiences and insights relating to policy development, inter departmental work and accessing funding.…
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Episode 17 Hiberno Goethe: Stefanie Preissner
On this month’s edition Ciaran is joined by actor, director and award winning writer for stage and screen, Stefanie Preissner. Stefanie was born in Germany but moved to Ireland as a child, and grew up in County Cork. Stefanie chats with Ciaran about feeling German, reminisces about the scharfes S…
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Perspectives on Prevention – Christine Dowling
In this episode of Perspectives on Prevention, our host Marian Quinn meets Christine Dowling, a Project Worker with Extern on the Intense Home Support Scheme. They discuss relationship based engagement, and how Christine develops sustainable supports for vulnerable families. For more on Extern...
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Episode 16 Hiberno Goethe: Dr. Christoph Schwitzer
Christoph chats with Ciarán about his journey to becoming a zoo director, from his early childhood interest in animals, his experiences while in Madagascar studying lemur monkeys and his time spent at Bristol Zoo. They take a stroll through Dublin Zoo and discuss the difference between former…
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Perspectives on Prevention – Eddie Darcy
In this episode of Perspectives on Prevention, our host Marian Quinn meets Eddie Darcy, a long time youth worker with particular expertise in working with young people at risk. They discuss Eddies belief in always sticking with young people and never giving up. Eddie also talks about some of the...
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Episode 15 Hiberno Goethe: Dr Gisela Holfter
This episode features Dr Gisela Holfter, Professor of German at the University of Limerick and joint director for the Centre for Irish-German Studies, who grew up in the Bergisches Land close to Cologne. Chatting with Ciarán about her time in Dublin, Belfast and later on in Limerick, the…
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Perspectives on Prevention – Shannon Baker
In this episode of Perspectives on Prevention, we meet Shannon Baker. Originally from Darndale on Dublin’s Northside. Shannon shares her experience as a youth leader in her community, and reflects on some of the supports she had growing up that influenced her in making positive life choices. You...
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Episode 14 Hiberno Goethe: Helmut und Killian Sundermann
This episode features comedian Killian Sundermann and teacher and assistant principal Helmut Sundermann of the Deutsche St Killian in Dublin. Father and son are bringing us on a journey of their influences for a shared love for music, humour, football and food. We hear about the time Helmut met…
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Perspectives on Prevention – Anne Genockey
In this episode of Perspectives on Prevention, we meet Anne Genockey, the Deputy CEO of An Cosan, a community education centre in Tallaght. Anne chats with Marian Quinn about her journey as an adult learner living in Jobstown to becoming an inspirational role model and leader in her community..…
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Perspectives on Prevention – Vivian Geiran
In this episode of Perspectives on Prevention Marian Quinn chats with Vivien Geiran, former Director General of the Probation Service, about his career, the relationship between poverty and crime, and what needs to change at a policy and practice level to avoid young people’s engagement in the...
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Episode 13 Hiberno Goethe: René Böll
This episode features visual artist René Böll who is the son of Nobel prize winner for literature Heinrich Böll. Born 1948 we hear about René’s growing up in the bombed city of Cologne and his memories of summers spent on Achill island in a house with no electricity apart from the kitchen. René...
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Perspectives on Prevention – Trailer
Coming soon! Perspectives on Prevention is a brand new podcast series from the Prevention and Early Intervention Network, a membership organisation which seeks to promote and support prevention and early intervention approaches with children, families and communities. In each episode Marian…
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Episode 12 Hiberno Goethe: Hugo Hamilton
Hugo Hamilton was our guest on this special edition of Hiberno Goethe. To celebrate 60 years of the Goethe-Institut Irland we were delighted to be joined by Hugo with a live audience in the Goethe-Institut library. Hugo first tells us about Speckled People and about his upbringing, his mother who...
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Episode 11 Hiberno Goethe: Arnd Witte
In this episode Ciarán chats to his former lecturer and Professor of Modern Languages Dr. Arnd Witte. We first hear about Arnd’s origins in Hiddigwardermoor where the one-teacher school had no running water. The conversation turns to the origin of Arnd’s love of the English language coming not...
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Episode 10 Hiberno Goethe: Mia Gallagher
This episode features Dublin writer and performer Mia Gallagher. Graduating at the time of recession in the late 1980s Mia is of a generation that was still emigrating and Dublin city a much more mono cultural place to live than we know it today. Having German roots allowed Mia to be in a…
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Episode 9 Hiberno Goethe: Jan Wagner
This episode features Jan Wagner, a north German literary critic, poet and translator who returned to Ireland at different times of his life- for travelling, studying at Trinity College, working as an artist in residence at the Boell Cottage on Achill island, reciting poetry in the bogs of...
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Episode 8 Hiberno Goethe: Emily Kraft
This episode features Emily Kraft, 19 years old Irish international football player who is at home in Sutton, Dublin North as well as in Gernsheim, close to Frankfurt am Main. Emily is a successful and ambitious footballer with Eintracht Frankfurt, who is also currently studying for her Abitur...
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Episode 7 Hiberno Goethe: Siobhán Armstrong
This episode features Siobhán Armstrong, one of Europe’s foremost historical harpists. In the late 1980’s after finishing college Siobhán moved to Sindelfingen, a little town close to Stuttgart, to start a harp department in the newly built Music School. Without a word of German at the time but...
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HIBERNO GOETHE: German Irish Conversations: EPISODE 6: GERARD BYRNE
In this episode Ciarán meets visual artist Gerard Byrne who teaches at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, and the conversation rambles from Brecht to Beckett and Kasper König. Gerard and Ciarán talk about the Städelschule and its place as one of the most influential art schools in Germany, and that...
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Hiberno Goethe: German Irish Conversations: Episode 5: Donnachadh Morgan
This episode features Donnachadh Morgan, barrister at law, son of the late Dermot Morgan and German mother Susanne Morgan (nee Garmaltz). Donnchadh tells us of his experience of his German Irish cultural world, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant from his grandparents’ stories of leaving Silesia...
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Hiberno Goethe: German Irish Conversations: Episode 4: Ulrike Gasser
This month Ciarán is joined by Ulrike Gasser, the newly appointed director of the Goethe Institut Irland and now proud Dublin Northsider. Originally from Munich Ulrike identifies with and appreciates many other cultures, especially the Middle East. Having worked with artists in Ankara and…
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Hiberno Goethe: German Irish Conversations: Episode 3: John Scott
This episode features John Scott, choreographer and artistic director of Irish Modern Dance Theatre. As a son of artistic parents and being exposed to the Abbey theatre from a young age, John’s love for dance started after being introduced to Kurt Jooss’s masterpiece The Green Table. He talks…
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Hiberno Goethe: German Irish Conversations: Episode 2: Deike Potzel
This month Ciarán is talking with the German ambassador to Ireland, Deike Potzel, who, ever since her inter-railing in Europe shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, had an interest in Irish people, history and even its language. They talk about the Irish border, the ambassador’s…
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Hiberno Goethe: German Irish Conversations: Episode 1: Sharon Carty
Ciarán chats with mezzo soprano singer Sharon Carty. We first hear how she went from PE teacher to opera singer and about her growing up with country music, Willie Nelson and ‘Wailing’ Jennings! They chat about encountering German at school, and the grammar, the ‘Der, die, das, die’, and how her...
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Hiberno Goethe: German Irish Conversations: INTRO Episode: Oya Demirci, head of library Goethe-Institut Irland
Ciarán Murray speaks to Goethe-Institut Irland head librarian Oya Demirci. They chat about music, food, dancing, books, James Joyce of course, and the inspiration and impact of living across different cultures. Oya talks about her idea for the series, and the plans for upcoming guests who have…
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Hiberno Goethe: German Irish Conversations – Teaser
This Podcast dives into the many colours of arts, language and life across cultures. St. Pauli fan and former Düsseldorfer Ciarán Murray and his guests explore the connecting moments of German and Irish life. What do musicians, dancers, artists, writers pick up from either culture? How are they...
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