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Our episode featuring Katie Taylor is out this week on Setanta Ireland. It premiered on Monday night and it was a busy weekend for Athena Media following the broadcast of ‘The Last Wake’ on newstalk 106 over the weekend. we’re now in pre production on a new RTE TV series ‘Is It Just Me?’ - telling the stories of young people surviving emotional crises - from bullying to the blues.
We’re in the midst of two radio projects - one a series on cities for newstalk called ‘Urban Beauty - Urban Blight’ which is being led by Mike Hogan and the other on women writers for RTE Lyric FM -’Women and Words’ - featuring Jennifer Johnston, Anne Enright, Maeve Binchy and many more.
The Summer is busy with lots of new plans and projects and we’re also in the midst of wrapping up our GAA Cadburys podcast series with the final of the U21 competition this week - tune into podcastingireland.ie to hear the last podcast featuring this year’s winner.

IBEC - Ireland’s leading organisation for industry and employment - has commissioned Athena Media for a series for podcasts. Athena Media, the creators of podcastingireland.ie, is now the country’s independent leader in professional podcasting and online content creation. Podcastingireland.ie was formally launched in March 2006 with its music channel Making Waves which is sponsored by 02 - the mobile phone service supplier and the portal is home to Ireland’s key podcasting directory. RTE - Ireland’s public broadcaster - tops Ireland’s download charts with its extensive range of podcasts largely drawn from its radio output but as independent business Athena Media is increasingly the home for all things podcasting and for all resources to do with podcasting and online content creation. Its corporate clients include Murray Consultants, the National Consumer Agency, Vhi and businesses like Calyx and Kingspan Century. For more about Athena Media’s podcasting work check out www.podcastingireland.ie and hear our audio podcasts on the sites.