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Ep 92---

This week, Carlo chats with Nicola Wynne, who grew up on the Carrick Road and went on to live a life you would struggle to believe.
She spent five and a half years with the United Nations in former Yugoslavia during the war. She was also based in New York on September 11th 2001. She built a 20-year career in real estate in New Jersey. And when she lost her father and her American visa in the same year, she came home to Boyle for three years during COVID that she still calls some of the happiest and most healing of her life.
Nicola lives in Mallorca now, but this conversation is a love letter to Boyle and to what home really means.
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Check out the full length blog post that goes along with this episode over on https://www.voicesofboyle.com/nicolawynne/
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Ep 91---
Carlo and Florence sit down with Vincent Beirne, originally from Plunkett Avenue in Boyle, now living in the west of Ireland, for a wide-ranging conversation about life, loss, healing and the path he has taken since losing his father. 
Vincent talks about growing up in Boyle, his father's profound influence on his life, losing a property at 21 through adverse possession, the shamanic practice he trained in and now works with, his understanding of soul loss, the man he helped over a 22-year alcohol relapse, the election he stood in as an independent, and his vision for bringing a rambling house back to Boyle. 
He also talks about the fire, the importance of looking within, and what he would put on a billboard in the town.

Check out for full blog post to go with this episode - https://www.voicesofboyle.com/vincentbeirne/

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Ep 90---

Carlo and Florence sit down with Dolores Sheerin, a Termon woman with a life full of stories.

From working as a telephonist in Galway in the late 1970s, where she answered a bomb threat during the Troubles and climbed onto the roof of the telephone exchange to watch Pope John Paul II bless them from his helicopter, to raising three sons in Boyle, joining the Moylurg Writers Group and discovering she could write, and travelling to Bosnia in 1994 with 26 suitcases of aid during the war.

Dolores also shares memories of characters and corners of Boyle that have largely disappeared, her deep faith, and the poem she wrote for the Moylurg writers simply called Boyle. A warm, funny, moving and genuinely memorable conversation.

Check out for full blog post to accompany this episode here - https://www.voicesofboyle.com/doloressheerin
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Ep 89---

Carlo sits down with David McGee, a young man from Boyle who has quietly built one of the most niche and impressive YouTube channels in Ireland. 
Blue Star Line, his channel dedicated to historically accurate 3D ship animations, has over 127,000 subscribers and a single video with close to 7 million views.
David talks about growing up beside the boys school in Boyle, his grandfather Dick McGee's influence on his love of photography and storytelling, making short films on a Nintendo 3DS, his obsession with the Titanic since the age of four or five, and how a school musical called All Shook Up set him on the path to technical production. 
He also covers commissions from Italian documentary companies, drone footage of the hot air balloons at Lough Key that went viral, working on the film "Ann" in Boyle, and what it takes to render a 20-minute animation that can take a month to produce. 
A genuinely fascinating conversation about creativity, craft and a passion pursued quietly but brilliantly.

Check out the full blog post on this episode - https://www.voicesofboyle.com/davidmcgee
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Ep 88---
Carlo sits down with Mairead Cogan, the youngest of six children raised on a farm in the Curlew Mountains, who went on to play GAA, break her leg and ankle in 2019, discover a passion for coaching, and found her own fitness business, Supple Fitness. 
But this episode is about more than fitness. Mairead also talks about two volunteer trips to Africa with Plant the Planet Games in partnership with Self Help Africa and Warriors for Humanity. A warm, honest and genuinely moving conversation about hard work, community, perspective, and what really matters in life.
Check out the full blog post - https://www.voicesofboyle.com/maireadcogan
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