Ukranian Voices From Ireland
The Ukrainian Voices in Ireland podcast shares stories from the Ukranian community and helps to build communication with Ireland’s new residents. The podcast gives Ireland’s newest community, Ukrainian refugees, a voice and a chance to introduce themselves to the people of Ireland. With so many arrivals, spread so widely across the country, there’s been a lack of a coherent narrative or voices from the newest residents of Ireland. Ireland’s Classic Hits Radio wants to play its part in welcoming the newest members of Ireland’s community and giving them a voice and an opportunity to speak for themselves and introduce themselves to a wider Irish audience.
Episodes
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Alla Mikhnova: "We only had 2 suitcases for myself and my two children"
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Alla Mikhnova speaks to Trina Mara about her life in Ireland after fleeing the war in Ukraine with her two children.
Monday Apr 22, 2024
Monday Apr 22, 2024
Alla Mikhnova speaks to Trina about leaving her husband behind in Ukraine to stay with his mother as she came to Ireland with her two sons after her town was occupied on the first day of the war. She told us how her children have struggled as a lot of their friends are now living in other European countries.
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Sergiy Balan's 22-year-old nephew was killed on the first day of occupation by the Russians. Sergiy's mother, who is 82, has said she is too old to travel and "better to die in her own hometown".
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Sergiy Balan: "Lots of Ukrainians have no homes to go back to"
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Sergiy Balan is the Chairman of the Association of Ukrainians in Ireland. He tells Trina Mara about how lost he was when he came to Ireland over 20 years to learn English.
www.ukrainians.ie
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Radion "We opened a printing business called "Steekaz.ie" 6 months ago"
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Radion tells us about the printing business he has started in Ireland since fleeing the war 2 years ago
www.steekaz.ie
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Radion: "We have started a small family printing business in Ireland"
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Radion chats to Trina about starting a small family printing business in Ireland since they fled the war in Ukraine.
They do a huge range of printing to include promotional / marketing merchandise for businesses, pop-up banners, vehicle branding, even residential house number plates.
www.steekaz.ie
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
We've been chatting to Radion about his journey from Ukraine and how he came to be in Ireland with his family
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Radion: "My daughter left bite marks on the car seat because she was so scared "
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Trina Mara continues chatting to Radian about how he fled the war in Ukraine with his wife and 2 young children. He explained how many of his neighbours and friends didn't leave as they couldn't leave elderly parents behind.
He explains the long drive he took with his children before they could reach his wife near the border.
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
Radion on fleeing the war with his 2 children
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
Radion speaks to Trina Mara about how he came to be in Ireland. He fled the war with his young children as the area around their home was destroyed and his wife was in another part of Ukraine grieving the loss of her mother.
They were in the middle of setting up a business in their hometown when they were forced to leave for their children's safety and have now set up that same business here in Ireland called www.steekaz.ie
You can hear more of Radion's story in the coming weeks On Air at Ireland's Classic Hits Radio and on this Podcast
Friday Feb 23, 2024
Prayer Vigil & Music to mark 2 years since start of war in Ukraine
Friday Feb 23, 2024
Friday Feb 23, 2024
Trina Mara chats to Sergiy Balan, Chairman of the Association of Ukrainians in Ireland, ahead of Saturday's prayer vigil at Cavan Cathedral which will mark 2 years of the war in Ukraine. There'll also be performances by Irish and Ukrainian artists, an art exhibition and cake sale.
February 24th 2024
4.30pm
At Cathedral of Saint Patrick and Saint Felim, 45 Farnham Street, Cavan
Ukranian Voices in Ireland
Each week, we highlight a voice from the Ukrainian community and let them tell their story, where they’re from, how they got to Ireland and how they’ve settled in to their new life in Ireland. More than 83,000 Ukrainians have arrived in Ireland since the beginning of Russia’s war on Ukraine in 2022, they’re fleeing a terrible conflict that has regularly seen shelling and missile attacks on civilian targets across the whole country.
Ireland’s Classic Hits Radio wants to play its part in welcoming the newest members of Ireland’s community and giving them a voice and an opportunity to speak for themselves and introduce themselves to a wider Irish audience.