Pam interviewd by Ruth Medjber
Season 1, Ep. 229, Friday, August 21, 2026
Pam mentioned in her directions that the path to her home was a little “off the beaten track” and she really wasn’t lying. As we drove our big camper down the little boreen, we came to her perfect wee house. She had a table set within the walled gardens where we chatted in the sunshine.
Pam and her husband are living an idyllic life, but it's very different to the one they first set out for themselves. They’ve turned their backs on investment banking, and instead have chosen a greenhouse full of organic avocados and lemons, a field of geese and an amazing shebeen for private gatherings and community workshops.
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Sin Scéal Eile - That's Another Story was hosted and created by Ruth Medjber, with sound by Ronan Lally. The podcast is produced by Dee Reddy at Poddle Audio with original music by Elaine Mai.
Tom on Ours To Protect with Ethna Quirke 
Ethna Quirke spoke to Tom about his retreat from the corporate world, a return to nature and his work with the Carlow County Environmental Network and their upcoming “Feast upon the Earth” event.
The programme was released in two broadcasts: Part 1 and Part 2. The complete conversation is here.
Ours to Protect is a radio and audio project spearheaded by Independent Broadcasters of Ireland (IBI) to broadcast over 1200 new and unique programmes devoted to climate change and climate action. It is funded by Coimisiún na Meán with the Television Licence Fee and is a partnership between KCLR and the Independent Broadcasters of Ireland check out ourstoprotect.ie for more details.
November 2023
Tom on KCLR talking about Feast Upon The Earth
Tom click here for radio interviewTom chatting with KCLR’s wonderful Trishauna Archer.
15 September 2023
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Tom on KCLR talking about How to Get Rich and Famous
Tom chatting with Sue Nunn on KCLR95.6FM after the release of How to Get Rich and Famous
7 June 2017
Nationwide talks to Tom at home
Broadcast 6 February 2015
In 2015 Helen McInerney and her team from RTE Nationwide joined us here at Ballin Temple to talk about astraea's book Common Sense. The short interview talks about the history of Ballin Temple as well as the background to Common Sense.
This is the link to the original piece: http://www.rte.ie/news/player/nationwide/2015/0206/ The video above is offered since the RTE link might not work.
Common Sense book launch reported in The Carlow Nationalist
5 December 2014
Tom and Pam on KCLR
Eimear Ní Bhraonáin of KCLR chats with Tom and Pam
Plus a poem The Driving Test by Joe Hickey.
Clonegal National School, 27 November 2014
Thank you VERY much. A tremendous resource. Graham Wilson
Truth
by Jeremy Cassar Torregiani
to commemorate the death of Daphne Caruana Galizia,
martyred for truth on 16 October 2017
She looks at you quite calmly
never angry nor perturbed.
She looks at you, yet sharply
Your every move observed.
She knows you know
You know she knows
That it’s too late for you
The act was done
and cannot be
undone
and what was done is true!
She told us so,
many moons ago
about the way false men make hay
the sun shines on their faces…
about all their airs and many graces
Parading themselves as law abiding
yet from the law they shy, in hiding,
blocking the truth at every turn
to steal from us
what they could never earn
Black or white, red or green
the dice will land on 17
while anger will
confusion bring.
She smiles
she waits
she knows her thing.
Money, greed,
right or wrong
from who to heed the truthful song.
A noose tightens around their neck.
All hell breaks loose
as vultures peck!
The state no longer draped in graces
shamed instead like those tanned faces
that find themselves in dire straits
awaiting now their well wrought fate.
The sound of time,
the ticking clock
that struck before the fatal shock,
keeps ticking on
as it did before
It cost a pound,
but now costs more
Too late for her,
her time had come!
Too late for us,
the end’s begun.
At three fifteen the sound of thunder,
the end of mother nature’s wonder!
Yet time and truth are such good friends
that lies and cunning cannot bend.
In the end
you will be caught.
The battle won,
the battle fought.
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