Aislinn Kelly

Irish multimedia journalist 

Aislinn Kelly

Broadcast journalist with experience in feature writing, audio editing and video reporting. 

Featured Radio Work

Limerick's Live 95 •

Episode 9- Helping the Hedgehogs

This week looks at how we can help the hedgehogs in our garden. Wildlife expert Bev Truss tells us all about this cute creature and provides tips on how we can adapt to protect their habitats.

From Mrs Tiggy-Winkle to Sonic, there’s few wild animals that capture the imagination and heart more than the hedgehog. Despite being very recognisable, there’s very little research on their presence in Ireland and there are many human processes that threaten their numbers.

For this week’s episode Aislin
Limerick's Live 95 •

Episode 4 - St Munchin's Allotment

St Munchin's Allotment is a hidden treasure on Limerick city's northside. Aislinn Kelly spoke to Marlow O'Brien for this week's Ours to Protect about how a fully organic community has come out of a misused piece of land.

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This week Live 95’s Aislinn Kelly paid a visit to St Munchin’s Allotment in Ballynanty. The community revived a piece of overgrown land and transformed it into a thriving allotment, supplying volunteers with organic fruit and vegetables. The allotment d
Limerick's Live 95 •

Episode 1 - Saving our Hedgerows

This week on Ours to Protect Aislinn visited a campaigning farmer Michael Hickey alongside Alan Moore of Hedgerows Ireland to talk about how this part of our landscape provides an invaluable carbon sink. Listen here:
• None Hedges provide an invaluable carbon sink for our environment.
• None Hedges are woodland edge habitats that come in many shapes and sizes.
• None They provide an invaluable corridor for wildlife to avail of.
• None The best hedges for wildlife are thick and broadest at the bo
Limerick's Live 95 •

Episode 6- The magic of moths with Kevin Hannon

Did you know Ireland has almost 1,500 species of moth that come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes? Limerick man Kevin Hannon has spent his life recording hundreds of these insects. Live 95's Aislinn met Kevin to learn more about this fascinating pollinator and the role it plays in our environment.

Week 6- The Magic of Moths with Kevin Hannon

Moths are often considered a nuisance and the culprit of pesky holes in your clothes, however Limerick man Kevin Hannon has spent years discovering ra
Limerick's Live 95 •

Episode 14- Lab Grown Diamonds

They may be a girl's best friend, but did you know not all diamonds are sourced the same way?

For this week’s episode Aislinn met Jenny Darcey at Field’s Jewellers at the Crescent Shopping Centre to learn about lab grown diamonds and how they are marketed as a more sustainable option on the market.

What exactly are lab grown diamonds?
• None To the naked eye, lab grown diamonds are identical to natural diamonds.
• None They are created in controlled environments, either using high pressure or
Limerick's Live 95 •

Episode 42- Ardnacrusha Generating Station

For this week’s episode of Ours to Protect, we visit Ardnacrusha Generating Station to learn more about this amazing feat of engineering on the River Shannon.

This week's episode of Ours to Protect focuses on Ardnacrusha Generating Station. We learn how the generating station works and how it revolutionised Ireland.

Built as part of the Shannon Scheme, it is considered the most ground-breaking infrastructure project ever constructed in Ireland and it is still generating power for the ESB today
Limerick's Live 95 •

Episode 12- Minister Eamon Ryan

For this week's episode we hear Minister Eamon Ryan's opinion on climate anxiety, agriculture and his hopes for Ireland's sustainable development.

On this week’s episode, we will hear from the person tasked to lead Ireland’s strategy for change to become carbon neutral as Minister for the Environment, Climate and Transport.

Live 95’s Aislinn Kelly sat down with Minister Eamon Ryan at the Department of Transport in Dublin to learn about the big switch we need to make and his vision for Ireland’
Limerick's Live 95 •

Episode 11- Richardsons

On this week's episode, founder and Managing Director Matthew Richardson will tell us about food security and the Irish agri-food industry as he gives Aislinn a tour of this successful Limerick business.

It’s all about food on this week’s episode as Matthew Richardson gives us a tour of Richardsons, a Limerick supplier of fresh food to top restaurants, hotels and catering companies. We will learn how the highly successful business has a sustainable focus, producing electricity needed by solar p
Limerick's Live 95 •

Episode 8- The Irish Flower Industry

This week Aislinn looks at the sustainable Irish Flower Industry by interviewing Fiona Cloherty, a grower based in Elton who has the environment at the forefront of her thriving practice.

A bouquet of flowers is always a lovely gift, but have you ever wondered how far it had to travel to reach your vase?

For today’s episode of Ours to Protect, Live 95’s Aislinn travelled to Elton to meet Fiona Cloherty to see her business Doonmoon flowers that sells Irish grown flowers as a more sustainable al
Limerick's Live 95 •

Episode 7- Limerick Beekeepers' Association

This episode focuses on the conservation of The Native Irish Honey Bee and what we can do to help their population. Aislinn visited Tom O'Brien at Limerick Beekeepers' training apiary to learn about beekeeping and what we can do to help these important pollinators.

The Native Irish Honey Bee was originally plentiful in Northern Europe, however numbers were decimated due to hybridisation with other subspecies. The purest strain of the bee remains in Ireland.

Tom O’Brien of Limerick Beekeepers'

Featured Writing

An Focal •

The Art of Preserving Irish with Manchán Magan

What can certain words of the Irish language tell us about our culture?

For writer Manchán Magan, answering this question has spurred his latest book ‘Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and other Irish Words for Nature.’

Reuniting with publishing house Gill and illustrator Steve Doogan, it serves as a sequel to his bestselling ‘Thirty Two Words for Field.’

The idea originated from a passion to preserve the rare words that grant us a unique insight into Ireland’s heritage.

“For years I was thinking I
An Focal •

An Focal Art Club #2- Faith Ringgold

In 1968, a black artist launched her first solo exhibition American People. The display quickly became a talking point for its unflinching depictions of racial tensions.

#20: Die depicts the riots of 1967. Crimson blood splatters contorted, helpless figures with their haunted saucer eyes spelling pain, both animalistic and terrified.

The men and women wear business clothes, making the business class accountable for the violence.

In the middle of the painting sits two toddlers, a white boy and
Tipperary Live •

Passion and patience is the key to the unique craft of master Tipperary potter

In the workshop adorned with terracotta splashed walls and scrawls of formulae only a true master could decipher, the unique art of Rossa Pottery emerges from the hands of potter Alan Walsh.

Rossa was established by his father Ned Walsh and is celebrating sixty years in business this year. The art of producing pottery, characterised by its distinctive glaze, is second nature to Alan, who shared his father’s love of creating the completely handmade pieces that are now sold all over the world.
Limerick Voice •

New Leaf Urban Farmers: A Limerick micro-farm with a global mindset

Founder of New Leaf Urban Farmers Kevin Wallace has taken a sustainable approach to food production

In our increasingly globalised world, local food producers are developing new and dynamic solutions to challenge the import dominated market.

One Ballyneety based farmer has overturned the idea of large scale factory farming to create his award winning biologically diverse market garden.

Kevin Wallace noticed the land use values were becoming increasingly unsustainable after returning to his ho