Aileen O’Meara Media makes quality radio programmes and documentaries, specialising in factual and human interest stories, with the emphasis on people’s lives and places. We have a strong track record in producing award-winning programmes and journalism going back over 20 years. We have an indepth knowledge of the independent radio sector, including the Sound and Vision scheme of the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland. We welcome commissions for factual programmes, documentaries and human-interest series.
Take a FREE tour around one of Ireland’s oldest towns on your phone or MP3 player. Roscrea Heritage Town, in north Tipperary, has a free audio guide and map, bringing you on an enjoyable trail that takes in its 12th century monastic ruins of round tower, high cross and west gable, its Norman Castle, its Franciscan belfry, its fine shop fronts and lots more.
This is a FREE 11-stop audio guide to the popular walkway from Dún Laoghaire to Dalkey Quarry, known locally as “The Metals”. It’s not just a journey through fascinating engineering and social history...
Come take our two-mile journey out and back to hear the East Pier’s story – it includes tragedy, bravery, and wildlife and poetry, music and engineering….
Aileen O’Meara Media travelled to South Africa in August 2008 to report on the work of the hospice movement in the country. Aileen produced a series of audio slideshows/podcasts for the UK-based Help the Hospices organisation, and for the Irish Hospice Foundation, who funded the trip. Her interview with Dr Kieran Creagh, the Pretoria-based Irish priest who runs the Leratong hospice, was featured on the Myles Dungan Radio Programme on RTE Radio One; she wrote a lengthy feature for the Sunday Business Post about the hospice movement in South Africa, and her radio essay on the build-up to the World Cup was featured on RTE Radio’s “World Report”.
Discover the engine that revolutionised the 20th century, the man who split the atom, the geologist who invented the humane hangman's drop and, if time allows, a gem of a museum in an attic. Just some of the treasures awaiting you on this self-guided trail of TCD.
The one-hour documentary recounts the vivid and insightful stories of single-handed rural family doctors in Ireland since the 1950s...
In 2007, Twintrack Media was commissioned to make a four-part documentary series called “Across the Counter” for Newstalk 106, with the support of the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland’s “Sound and Vision” scheme...
The final documentary in the four-part “Across the Counter” radio series was broadcast on Newstalk 106 at the end of November 2009. “Across the Counter” in Leinster featured two Leinster towns in transition, in a radio journey down their main streets...
In the third of the innovative radio series on the changing nature of small towns in Ireland, “Across the Counter” goes to two contrasting towns in Ulster: the seaside town of Bundoran in Co Donegal, and the town of Clones, just a mile from the border in Monaghan...
Produced by Aileen O’Meara of Twintrack Media with Tim Hastings, “Across the Counter in Connacht” brings the listeners on a journey through two Connacht towns: Westport in Co Mayo and Loughrea in Co Galway, hearing a myriad of local voices and stories that illustrate the impact of rapid social and economic change...
What does a town do when its major industries have closed or moved on, and when it can’t attract people to live there? And what if you are at the end of a poor road infrastructure with no broadband connections? Are our Munster towns becoming villages?...