Voices from the inside Pat Mc Mahon

Transcript 

So, this is it, this is who we are, and this is who we seek to be. This is life, this is hope, this is you, this is me, this is us together, this is happiness, this is peace, this is joy, this is sadness, this is humanity together, all of us. 

This is our aspiration,   for freedom, hope, joy,  for equanimity, for fairness, for justice, for equality, for all that we can be human beings, it is us, it is inside our hearts, our soul, it is not outside, we cannot expect others to do, what equity demands, 

equity demands justice, equity demands, that everyone does what they can, to only what you can, the universe will dictate that if everybody does, what they can, balance will be restored. But we have lost that belief; we have lost that belief that we can make a difference. The problems of the world seems so huge, so enormous. Yet individual acts, collective individual acts make a difference. I will tell you a story. Story of this difference, just as an example.

If  200 people donated five euros per month every month, we could run a programme targeting malnourished pregnant mothers delivering food; that's what collective action means. That the collective response, five euros now, will hardly get you a cup of coffee. But collectively, it does something significantly huge and beautiful. Our collective action our collective action can change this world that we are in. I know it can we just need to believe, we just need to believe

Patricia Messenger of C103 FM interviews Pat Mc Mahon. Food instead of Bullets. He introduces his new website The right to food pledge.org

To mark World Food Day on the 16th of October 2021, I climbed Ireland's highest mountain barefoot. I did this as an act of solidarity with growing numbers of people experiencing emergency levels of food insecurity. Less than 2 weeks before the climb, I went to the mountain in humble respect and asked for her blessing. At 1 point in time, the urge to speak overwhelmed me and I turned on the voice recorder and this is what was spoken 

This new episode formally introduces us to the character of Bare Foot Paddy. Taken from the opening minutes of the play entitled From 13 to 31.

The child-like character will seek to open your heart to a heart of innocence and hope. The play's first performance will take place on International Women's Day, Tuesday 8th of March 2022.  

On the 22 of June 1850, 124 people from the village of Tracton in Co Cork, Ireland walked the 8 miles to Kinsale workhouse. They walked because of the famine being experienced in Ireland at the time.  This reenactment dramatises how this decision was made.  There are 4 characters. Jonny, Jimmy, Kitty and Mary and they tell their story of hunger, fear, hope and love.