{"id":590,"date":"2013-09-16T14:13:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T14:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?page_id=590"},"modified":"2019-12-04T15:46:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T15:46:59","slug":"hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall Of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a year-by-year list of all those who’ve spoken at Banter and Banter-related events. We’d just be talking to ourselves if it wasn’t for these brilliant people who’ve contributed to making Banter what it is today. Thanks to all of them, collectively and individually.<\/p>\n

Every successful long-running project needs a team and we’ve had some brilliant people working on Banter over the years. Huge respect is due to Eoin Cregan<\/strong> (producer), Jack Gibson<\/strong> (producer), Molly King<\/strong> (Banter at Other Voices producer) and Tanya White<\/strong> (podcast producer) who have worked on this thing over the years.<\/p>\n

We’d also like to say a huge thanks to the following people who have hosted brilliant Banter-associated\u00a0events over the years:\u00a0Sinead Gleeson<\/strong> and Anna Carey<\/strong> at The Anti Room,\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Gerry Godley<\/strong> at Hot Potatoes, Aoife McElwain <\/strong>at Slow Series, Ann Lowney <\/strong>at The Makers Stories, Claire Howlin <\/strong>and the Media +\u00a0Entertainment Psychology Lab, This Greedy Pig, Lois Kapila <\/strong>at Dublin Inquirer<\/strong>,\u00a0Ali Kelly <\/strong>at Nu.Ethical<\/strong>,\u00a0Aoife Barry,<\/strong>\u00a0Richard Brophy<\/strong>,\u00a0Una Mullally<\/strong>,\u00a0Michael Moynihan<\/strong>, Gavin Cummiskey,\u00a0Emmet Malone,<\/strong>\u00a0Mick O’Keeffe,<\/strong>\u00a0Marian Keyes, Jeanne Sutton\u00a0<\/strong>and \u00c1ine N\u00ed Bhreisle\u00e1in<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And a massive thanks is also due to the many festival and event organisers who have invited us to bring the Banter bandwagon along to their happenings up and down the country and out foreign too.<\/p>\n

2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gavan Reilly<\/strong> (Virgin Media News, Newstalk), Eamon Ryan<\/strong> (leader, The Green Party), Una Mullally<\/strong> (Banter legend), Carole Coleman<\/strong> (RT\u00c9), Susan McKay<\/strong> (journalist and author), Caelainn Hogan<\/strong> (author, Republic Of Shame), Jennifer Cassidy<\/strong> (Oxford University), Conor O’Mahony<\/strong> (UCC and\u00a0Special Rapporteur on Child Protection),\u00a0Paul Geaney<\/strong> (Kerry footballer), Andrea Horan<\/strong> (United Ireland podcast and Tropical Popical), Saoirse McHugh<\/strong> (The Green Party),\u00a0Sinead O’Carroll\u00a0<\/strong>(editor, The Journal),\u00a0Marion McKeone<\/strong> (journalist, commentator, barrister, broadcaster, documentary maker and bull-rider), Louie Ryan<\/strong> (Temple Bar Concepts), Colm Mac Con Iomaire<\/strong> (musician), Karl Whitney<\/strong> (author),\u00a0Ian Maleney<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(author), Hannah Tyrrell<\/strong> (Ireland women’s rugby international),\u00a0Gina Akpe-Moses<\/strong> (athlete), Hugh Linehan<\/strong> (The Irish Times), Aoife Barry<\/strong> (The Journal), Maria Murphy<\/strong> (Maynooth University),\u00a0Olivia Lichenstein<\/strong> (film-maker), <\/span>Seamus Hennessy<\/strong> (All Ireland hurling winner and mental health activist)<\/span><\/p>\n

Musical performers at Banter during the year:\u00a0Dowry, Anderson, Sorcha Richardson, Rachael Lavelle,\u00a0M\u00e9abh N\u00ed Bheaglaioch,\u00a0Matt Griffin, Aoife Granville and friends<\/strong><\/p>\n

2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christine Bohan<\/strong>\u00a0(The Journal),\u00a0Conor Behan<\/strong>\u00a0(GCN columnist, DJ, radio presenter, freelancer writer and pop music enthusiast),\u00a0Jeanne Sutton<\/strong>\u00a0(writer),\u00a0David Kenny<\/strong>\u00a0(Professor of\u00a0Constitutional Law at Trinity College Dublin), Tony Connelly<\/strong> (RT\u00c9’s Europe Editor),\u00a0Carole Cadwalladr\u00a0<\/strong>(The Observer),\u00a0Annie Mac<\/strong> (BBC Radio One),\u00a0Pat Collins<\/strong> (film-maker),\u00a0Michael Keegan-Dolan<\/strong> (Teac Damsa),\u00a0Ellen Coyne<\/strong> (The Times Ireland),\u00a0Maeve O\u2019Rourke<\/strong>\u00a0(human rights lawyer),\u00a0Amy O\u2019Connor<\/strong> (journalist),\u00a0Alison Spittle<\/strong> (comedian), Johnny Rogan<\/strong> (author and writer), Sonya Lennon<\/strong>\u00a0(Dress for Success),\u00a0Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee<\/strong>\u00a0(Chair of\u00a0the cross-party parliamentary group on workplace equality),\u00a0Mark Paul<\/strong>\u00a0(business\u00a0affairs correspondent with\u00a0The Irish Times),\u00a0Deborah Somorin<\/strong>\u00a0(founder\u00a0Empower the Familyand Senior Associate at PwC),\u00a0Aoibheann O\u2019Brien<\/strong> (Foodcloud), Peter McVerry<\/strong> (Peter McVerry Trust), Jess Majekodunmi<\/strong> (Accenture), Margaret E Ward<\/strong> (Clear Ink),\u00a0Brian \u201cB+\u201d Cross<\/strong> (hip-hop photographer, writer and film-maker), Rory O\u2019Neill\u00a0<\/strong>(Panti Bliss, Queen of Ireland), Stuart O\u2019Keeffe<\/strong>\u00a0(celebrity chef), Mick Kiely<\/strong> (Xhail), Brian Kerr<\/strong> (football pundit, co-commentator, former football manger Republic Of Ireland and Banter legend), Sin\u00e9ad Gleeson<\/strong> (Sin\u00e9ad Gleeson),\u00a0Una Mullally<\/strong> (Una Mullally),\u00a0Eithne Shortall<\/strong>\u00a0(author and journalist),\u00a0Caoilinn Hughes<\/strong>\u00a0(author Orchid & The Wasp), Lois Kapila<\/strong>\u00a0(editor,\u00a0Dublin Inquirer),\u00a0Richie Oakley\u00a0<\/strong>(editor,\u00a0The Times Ireland),\u00a0Christine Bohan<\/strong>\u00a0(acting editor, The Journal), Andrea Horan<\/strong> (Tropical Popical\u00a0and\u00a0Don\u2019t Stop Repealin\u2019 podcast), Senator Ivana Bacik<\/strong> (Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology\u00a0at TCD), Emilie Pine<\/strong> (author Notes to Self and\u00a0Associate Professor in Modern Drama\u00a0at UCD), Deike Potzel\u00a0<\/strong>(German Ambassador to\u00a0Ireland),\u00a0Hannah Deasy<\/strong>\u00a0(Communications Director at the Institute of International and European Affairs),\u00a0Karen Devine<\/strong>\u00a0(Lecturer in International Relations & EU politics at DCU),\u00a0Jack Good<\/strong>\u00a0(Paddy Wants To Know Brexit\u00a0podcast), Fuchsia MacAree<\/strong> (illustator), Ruth McGowan<\/strong>\u00a0(festival director of\u00a0Dublin Fringe), John Connell<\/strong>\u00a0(author\u00a0The Cow Book),\u00a0Paul and Phil Hartnoll<\/strong> (Orbital), Eoin McDevitt<\/strong> (Second Captains), Harry Colley<\/strong> (With Relish), Aoife Allen<\/strong> (With Relish), Alacoque McAlpine<\/strong> (DIT),\u00a0Grace Enemaku<\/strong>\u00a0(Enemkau),\u00a0Katriona\u00a0Flynn<\/strong>\u00a0(DIT), James Fagan<\/strong>\u00a0(Coffee & Kicks),\u00a0Sinead O’Shea<\/strong> (director A Mother Brings Her Son To Be Shot),\u00a0David Burke<\/strong>\u00a0(Editor,\u00a0The Tuam Herald),\u00a0David Lynch<\/strong>\u00a0(Editor,\u00a0Dundalk Democrat), Stephanie Costello<\/strong>\u00a0(Centre for Critical Media Literacy, DIT), Lois Kapila<\/strong>\u00a0(Editor, Dublin Inquirer),\u00a0Jeanne Sutton<\/strong>\u00a0(writer, former deputy editor of STELLAR magazine and currently completing a MSc in Science Communication\u00a0in DCU while working in non-profit communications), Emily Carson<\/strong>\u00a0(Body & Soul festival,\u00a0Dublin Digital Radio and freelance writer and marketer),\u00a0Sin\u00e9ad Mercier<\/strong>\u00a0(primary researcher for the Green Party, a SIPTU just transition activist and a member of Not Here, Not\u00a0Anywhere grassroots group),\u00a0Rachel Watters<\/strong>\u00a0(Belfast-based reproductive justice activist, student and Deputy Chair of Project Choice at Queen\u2019s University Belfast Students\u2019\u00a0Union and Women\u2019s Officer of NUS-USI),\u00a0Subset<\/strong> (artists and activists),\u00a0Cian O\u2019Brien<\/strong>\u00a0(Project Arts Centre), Grace Dyas<\/strong>\u00a0(playwright and activist), Kelly-Anne Byrne<\/strong> (DJ), Dave Tynan<\/strong> (director Dublin Oldschool), Daniel Lambert<\/strong> (Bohemian FC\u00a0strategy and marketing dude), PJ Gallagher<\/strong>\u00a0(Bohs’ fan), Brian MacCraith<\/strong> (President, DCU),\u00a0Caroline McCamley<\/strong>\u00a0(business consultant and executive director of Ampersand),\u00a0Claire Hyland<\/strong> (Thinkhouse), Paul Noonan<\/strong> (Bell X1),\u00a0Niamh O\u2019Sullivan<\/strong>\u00a0(Professor Emeritus at National College of Art and Design and curator of\u00a0Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger),\u00a0Gillian O\u2019Brien<\/strong>\u00a0(historian at Liverpool John Moores University),\u00a0Brian Maguire<\/strong>\u00a0(artist), Ailbhe Smith<\/strong>\u00a0(Co-Director of Together For Yes and Convenor of Coalition to Repeal the 8th Amendment),\u00a0Sarah Robinson<\/strong>\u00a0(UCC School of Psychology PhD candidate and current\u00a0Irish Research Council awardee),\u00a0Alison O\u2019Connor<\/strong>\u00a0(journalist, columnist and broadcaster),\u00a0S\u00edona Cahill<\/strong>\u00a0(incoming president Union Of Students In Ireland),\u00a0Claire Byrne<\/strong>\u00a0(Dublin city councillor),\u00a0Lorcan Sirr<\/strong>\u00a0(School of Real Estate and Construction Economics at the Dublin Institute of\u00a0Technology),\u00a0Colin Harmon<\/strong>\u00a0(3FE), Claire Howlin<\/strong> (Media + Entertainment Psychology Lab),\u00a0Brendan Rooney<\/strong> (Media + Entertainment Psychology Lab),\u00a0Darragh Lynch<\/strong>\u00a0(Media + Entertainment Psychology Lab),\u00a0Nicola Hamilton<\/strong> (Media + Entertainment Psychology Lab),\u00a0Kevin\u00a0Curran<\/strong> (Professor of Cyber Security at the University Of Ulster), Ciara O’Brien<\/strong> (technology journalist The Irish Times), John McDonald<\/strong> (senior lecturer at\u00a0Department of Computer Science, Maynooth University),\u00a0Martina Devlin<\/strong>\u00a0(writer\u00a0and\u00a0columnist at The Irish Independent),\u00a0John Gibney\u00a0<\/strong>(Royal Irish Academy historian\u00a0and author of\u00a0Dublin \u2013 A New Illustrated History),\u00a0Diarmaid Ferriter<\/strong>\u00a0(Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD, author, broadcaster and\u00a0columnist at The Irish Times), Myles Campbell<\/strong> (curator, Dublin Castle),\u00a0Noeline Blackwell<\/strong>\u00a0(Chief Executive of the\u00a0Dublin Rape Crisis Centre),\u00a0Ellen Coyne\u00a0<\/strong>(senior Ireland journalist with\u00a0The Times Ireland Edition),\u00a0Simone George<\/strong>\u00a0(consultant litigator and\u00a0advocate), Caroline McCamley<\/strong>\u00a0(business consultant and executive director of\u00a0Ampersand),\u00a0Claudine Chen<\/strong>\u00a0(cycling advocate, Dublin\u00a0Cycling Campaign),\u00a0Jason Taylor\u00a0<\/strong>(principal author of the\u00a0Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets),\u00a0Jim Waldron<\/strong>\u00a0(National Private Hire & Taxi Association),\u00a0Cilian Fennell\u00a0<\/strong>(Sti\u00farth\u00f3ir,\u00a0Stillwater Communications), Hannah N\u00ed Bhaoill<\/strong> (eagra\u00ed\u00a0F\u00e9ile na Geala\u00ed),\u00a0Osgur \u00d3 Ciardha<\/strong>\u00a0(comhbhunaitheoir\u00a0Pop Up Gaeltacht), Sin\u00e9ad N\u00ed Uallach\u00e1in<\/strong>\u00a0(craolt\u00f3ir le\u00a0RT\u00c9 Raidi\u00f3 na Gaeltachta), Johann Hari<\/strong> (author and journalist), \u00a0Barry Hyde<\/strong> (musician)<\/p>\n

Musical performers at Banter during the year:\u00a0Barry Hyde,\u00a0S\u00edobhra Quinlan,\u00a0Annalisa Monticelli, Slow Moving Clouds, A Smyth, Cormac Begley, Dowry,\u00a0Aoife N\u00ed Bhr\u00edain<\/strong><\/p>\n

2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brian Deady<\/strong> (musician), Sonya Kelly<\/strong> (writer and actor), Debbie Mulhall<\/strong>\u00a0(Community Development Worker in Dolphin House),\u00a0Michelle Norris<\/strong>\u00a0(Head of the School of the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice at UCD),\u00a0Ali Grehan<\/strong>\u00a0(City Architect, Dublin City Council),\u00a0Hugh Brennan<\/strong>\u00a0(CEO,\u00a0\u00d3 Cualann Cohousing Alliance), Oonagh Murphy<\/strong>\u00a0(theatre director),\u00a0Catherine Sanz<\/strong>\u00a0(reporter at The Times Ireland Edition),\u00a0Gavin Sheridan<\/strong>\u00a0(CEO\u00a0Vizlegal), Caitl\u00edn Nic Gabhann & Ciar\u00e1n \u00d3 Maonaigh<\/strong> (musicians), Una Mullally<\/strong> (Banter superstar), Luke O\u2019Neill<\/strong> (chair of biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin and one of the world\u2019s leading immunologists), Sarah McBriar<\/strong> (founder of the\u00a0AVA\u00a0electronic music festival in Belfast), Enda Walsh (playwright), Geoff Travis & Jeannette Lee<\/strong> (Rough Trade Records), John Mulholland<\/strong> (The Observer\u00a0editor and Acting Editor of\u00a0The Guardian US), Emer Reynolds<\/strong> (film-maker, The Farthest), Nathalie Marquez Courtney<\/strong> (photographer, editor and writer),\u00a0Aoife McElwain<\/strong> (food writer and creative events planner),\u00a0Dean Van Nguyen (journalist),\u00a0Dr Sandra McNulty<\/strong> (psychologist) Leah McCourt<\/strong>\u00a0(IMMAF European & World Champion),\u00a0Phil Campbell<\/strong>\u00a0(MMA fighter),\u00a0Danny Corr\u00a0(MMA World Governing Body Coaching Committee, chairman\u00a0Ulster Amateur MMA\u00a0and founder of MMA Youth Development programmes), Honourable Ms. Justice Marie Baker<\/strong>\u00a0(The High Court),\u00a0Dr David Kenny<\/strong>\u00a0(Professor of Constitutional Law at Trinity College Dublin),\u00a0Ruadh\u00e1n Mac Cormaic<\/strong>\u00a0(author of\u00a0The Supreme Court\u00a0and Irish Times Foreign Affairs Correspondent), Sahar Ali\u00a0<\/strong>(poet, actor and performer),\u00a0Dr Eileen Hogan\u00a0(lecturer in social policy at University College Cork),\u00a0Executive Steve<\/strong>\u00a0(Dubs Against Racism\u00a0and\u00a0Raidi\u00f3 Na Life DJ), Peter Feeney<\/strong>\u00a0(Press Ombudsman of Ireland and\u00a0formerly head of broadcast compliance at RT\u00c9 and editor of current affairs television at RT\u00c9),\u00a0Diarmaid Mac Aonghusa<\/strong>\u00a0(managing director of web and app development company\u00a0Fusio),\u00a0Paloma\u00a0Viejo Otero<\/strong>\u00a0(PhD student at Dublin City University researching hate speech and social media),\u00a0Lois Kapila<\/strong>\u00a0(founder and managing editor of\u00a0Dublin Inquirer), Paschal Donohoe<\/strong> (Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure), Michael Darragh MacAuley<\/strong>\u00a0(Dublin GAA footballer), Philly McMahon<\/strong>\u00a0(theatre-maker, Thisispopbaby, Riot etc), Darach \u00d3 S\u00e9aghdha<\/strong>\u00a0(The Irish For\u00a0and the\u00a0Motherfocl\u00f3ir book\u00a0and\u00a0podcast), Ronan Brady<\/strong>\u00a0(physical artist, performer and former Roscomon footballer), Ellie Kisyombe<\/strong> (Our Table activist), Marty Morrissey<\/strong>\u00a0(RT\u00c9 Sports reporter, commentator and broadcaster), Sin\u00e9ad N\u00ed Uallachain<\/strong> (Raidi\u00f3 na Gaeltachta broadcaster), Sarah Davis-Goff<\/strong>\u00a0(Tramp Press),\u00a0Ken Allen<\/strong>\u00a0(Faction Records),\u00a0Jenny Jennings<\/strong>\u00a0(Thisispopbaby, Riot etc), Ruth Fitzmaurice<\/strong> (author, I Found My Tribe), Aoife Dooley<\/strong> (illustrator, writer and comedian),\u00a0\u00a0Gavin Boyd<\/strong>\u00a0(Rainbow Project),\u00a0Ellen Murray\u00a0(trans youth worker and activist), Colin Harmon<\/strong>\u00a0(3FE), Conor Duggan<\/strong> (Box Burger),\u00a0Sandy Wyer<\/strong>\u00a0(Forest Avenue), Claire Howlin<\/strong> (Media + Entertainment Psychology Lab),\u00a0Brendan Rooney<\/strong> (Media + Entertainment Psychology Lab),\u00a0Darragh Lynch<\/strong>\u00a0(Media + Entertainment Psychology Lab),\u00a0Nicola Hamilton<\/strong> (Media + Entertainment Psychology Lab), Larry Heard<\/strong> (legend), Rusangano Family<\/strong> (musicians), Emer McLysaght\u00a0&\u00a0Sarah Breen<\/strong> (authors, Oh My God What A Complete Aisling), Robert Webb<\/strong> (writer and comedian), Mark Roper<\/strong> (poet), Niall Hatch<\/strong> (Birdwatch Ireland),\u00a0Grace Garde (educator), Claire Byrne<\/strong>\u00a0(Dublin city councillor),\u00a0Philip Judge<\/strong> (author and actor),\u00a0Adrienne Hanna<\/strong>\u00a0(Right Revenue),\u00a0Kevin\u00a0Curran<\/strong> (Professor of Cyber Security at the University Of Ulster),\u00a0Philip Brady<\/strong>\u00a0(EMEA Leadership Development, Executive Coach and Facilitator,\u00a0Citibank), Annie Atkins<\/strong>\u00a0(graphic designer and prop maker extraordinaire for The Grand Budapest Hotel, Bridge Of Spies and many more),\u00a0Colin Murphy<\/strong>\u00a0(journalist and playwright The\u00a0Guarantee, Inside The GPO etc),\u00a0Radie Peat<\/strong>\u00a0(musician and singer with Lankum and Rue), Jenny Greene<\/strong> (2fm DJ), Rosemary Mac Cabe\u00a0<\/strong>(blogger and journalist),\u00a0Daniel Davey<\/strong> (performance nutrionist with the Dublin senior footballers and Leinster rugby players,\u00a0TV3\u2019s Doctor In the House\u00a0and co-founder of online nutrition site\u00a0FoodFlicker),\u00a0Maeve McGann<\/strong> (Skerries Tidy Towns Committee),\u00a0Anne Doyle<\/strong>\u00a0(Skerries Tidy Towns Committee),\u00a0Maeve O\u2019Neill<\/strong> (gardener),\u00a0Alan Rudden<\/strong> (gardener),\u00a0Gerald Fleming<\/strong> (Head of Forecasting at Met Eireann),\u00a0Karina Buckley<\/strong> (RTE), Mairead Lavery<\/strong> (Irish Country Living editor), Tara McCarthy<\/strong> (Bord Bia CEO), JP McMahon<\/strong> (Aniar, Cava, Food On the Edge), Niamh Shaw<\/strong>\u00a0(Irish scientist, engineer, performer, artist and astronaut), Brian Burke\u00a0<\/strong>(gardener), Don Conroy<\/strong> (artist), Cathy Davey<\/strong> (My Lovely Horse Rescue), Roz Evans\u00a0<\/strong>(Phibsboro Cat Rescue),\u00a0Catriona Birt<\/strong>\u00a0(Dogs Trust), Elaine Keane<\/strong> (Director of Clinical Services at\u00a0TLC Nursing Homes),\u00a0Sinead Grennan<\/strong> (CEO\u00a0Sonas apc),\u00a0Catherine Cleary<\/strong> (restaurant critic and food writer),\u00a0Niall Maxwell\u00a0<\/strong>(gardener),\u00a0T\u00fcnde Szentesi<\/strong>\u00a0(gardener), Neven Maguire<\/strong> (chef), Aoife Hearne<\/strong>\u00a0(Operation Transformation dietician), Peter Mulryan\u00a0<\/strong>(Blackwater Distillery),\u00a0James McKenna<\/strong>\u00a0(Listoke Gin),\u00a0Keith Malone<\/strong>\u00a0(Mor Gin), Kevin Donnellan<\/strong>\u00a0(UK editor,\u00a0Storyful),\u00a0Lois Kapila<\/strong>\u00a0(co-founder and managing editor,\u00a0Dublin Inquirer),\u00a0Jane Suiter<\/strong>\u00a0(School of Communications DCU\u00a0and Director of the\u00a0Institute for Future\u00a0Media and Journalism),\u00a0Cathal McMahon<\/strong>\u00a0(Irish Independent), Brian McGinn<\/strong> (Chef\u2019s Table), Michelle Darmody<\/strong>\u00a0(Our Table),\u00a0Ellie Kisyombe<\/strong>\u00a0(Our Table), Vytenis Andriukaitis<\/strong> (EU Commissioner), Valerie Loftus<\/strong> (The Daily Edge), Stefanie Preissner (writer),\u00a0Bill Malone<\/strong> (TV3\u00a0director of programming), Patrick Kinsella<\/strong> (TV3 Head of AFP),\u00a0Stephen Donnelly <\/strong>(Fianna Fail TD), Dorothy Cross<\/strong> (artist),\u00a0Aoibheann O\u2019Brien<\/strong> (co-founder and CEO of\u00a0FoodCloud), Alan Simms<\/strong> (Shine),\u00a0Finn N\u00ed Fhaol\u00e1in<\/strong> (blogger, surfer, chef and author),\u00a0Kevin Cavey<\/strong> (the grandfather of Irish surfing),\u00a0Olan O\u2019Brien<\/strong> (All City record label and shop),\u00a0Justin \u201cJC\u201d Coghlan<\/strong> (co-founder Movember),\u00a0Lucia Griggi<\/strong> (photographer),\u00a0Matt Smith<\/strong> (Backwash Magazine\u00a0and the\u00a0Moy Hill Community Garden\u00a0in Lahinch, Co Clare), Michael Moynihan<\/strong> (The Irish Examiner), Rachael English<\/strong> (novelist and presenter of RTE Radio One\u2019s Morning Ireland), Eimear Ryan<\/strong>\u00a0(writer and co-editor Banshee literary journal) Kieran Cunningham<\/strong>\u00a0(chief sportswriter, Irish Daily Star). Crist\u00edn Leach<\/strong> (art critic, Sunday Times Ireland), Ian Maleney<\/strong> (<\/span>writer and critic), Graham McLaren<\/strong> (<\/span>director of the Abbey Theatre) Nadine O’Regan<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(arts editor, Sunday Business Post), Tara Flynn<\/strong> (<\/span>actress, comedian and writer), Dave Lordan<\/strong>\u00a0(writer, poet and dramatist) Derek O’Connor<\/strong>\u00a0(RTE.ie Culture editor), Fachtna O’Ceallaigh<\/strong> (music manager), Richard Curran<\/strong> (journalist and broadcaster), Alison Curtis<\/strong> (Today FM), Aoife Barry<\/strong>\u00a0(The Journal),\u00a0Ellen Tannam<\/strong>\u00a0(writer and podcaster\u00a0HeadStuff,\u00a0RTE\u00a0etc),\u00a0Conor Behan<\/strong>\u00a0(DJ\u00a0and writer),\u00a0Mark Smyth<\/strong>\u00a0(senior clinical psychologist), Katie Richardson<\/strong>\u00a0(musician),\u00a0Fergal McFerran\u00a0<\/strong>(president,\u00a0NUS-USI),\u00a0Tara Connolly<\/strong>\u00a0(chairperson,\u00a0NI Youth Forum),\u00a0Callum Curry\u00a0<\/strong>(entrepreneur and founder of\u00a0SUSSD),\u00a0Ellie & Louise McNamara<\/strong>\u00a0(Heathers),\u00a0Frances Roe<\/strong>\u00a0(Jam Jar Jail),\u00a0Edwina Forkin<\/strong> (Zanzibar Films and\u00a0ex-TCD Ents Officer), Suzanne Rhatigan<\/strong> (singer),\u00a0Peter Jones<\/strong>\u00a0(Paranoid Visions), Peter Devlin<\/strong> (musician, producer and broadcaster),\u00a0Rosemary Mac Cabe<\/strong> (blogger and journalist),\u00a0Tara O’Farrell<\/strong> (make-up artist, blogger and model),\u00a0James Kavanagh<\/strong> (Snapchat superstar, Currabinny food\u00a0company), Holly Shortall<\/strong> (New\/Slang), Paul Kimmage<\/strong> (sportswriter and author)<\/p>\n

Musical performers at Banter during the year:\u00a0Maria Kelly,\u00a0<\/strong>Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker,\u00a0Caitl\u00edn Nic Gabhann & Ciar\u00e1n \u00d3 Maonaigh<\/strong>, Roe<\/strong>,\u00a0Daithi, Tadgh,\u00a0<\/strong>Caoimh\u00edn \u000f\u00d3 Raghallaigh,\u00a0Eve Belle<\/strong>, Goldie Fawn<\/strong><\/p>\n

2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

Fintan O\u2019Toole\u00a0<\/strong>(The Irish Times),\u00a0Anna Cosgrave\u00a0<\/strong>(Repeal Project\u00a0campaign founder),\u00a0Elaine Buckley<\/strong>\u00a0(Fair Game\u00a0podcast), Emmet Condon<\/strong>\u00a0(Homebeat\u00a0and\u00a0Another Love Story),\u00a0Dr Suzanne O\u2019Sullivan<\/strong> (neurologist and author of\u00a0It\u2019s All In Your Head, the winner of\u00a0the Wellcome Book Prize\u00a02016),\u00a0Catherine Murphy<\/strong> (Kildare North TD and\u00a0Social Democrats\u2019\u00a0co-founder), Paul Howard<\/strong> (author),\u00a0Aoife Kelleher<\/strong> (documentary maker), Aideen Barry<\/strong> (artist),\u00a0Eithne Shortall<\/strong> (The Sunday Times\u2019 chief arts writer and author),\u00a0Aoibheann McNamara<\/strong> (Ard Bia restaurant\u00a0and\u00a0The Tweed Project), Justin Burgess<\/strong> (Bean In Dingle), Shane Finn<\/strong> (WK Fitness), Cormac Begley<\/strong> (Airt),\u00a0Marian Goodell<\/strong> (Burning Man), Bill James<\/strong> (baseball writer, historian, and statistician), Bruce Pavitt<\/strong> (Sub Pop founder), Nikki Dryden<\/strong> (human rights lawyer, activist and Olympic swimmer), Allison Wagner<\/strong> (Olympic swimming silver medalist), Paul Tighe<\/strong> (adjunct secretary to The Vatican’s\u00a0Pontifical Council for Culture)\u00a0Michael Shamberg<\/strong> (film producer and BuzzFeed Motion Pictures advisor), Bradley Tusk<\/strong> (CEO of Tusk Holdings, Uber\u2019s first political consultant and Michael Bloomberg\u2019s former campaign manager), Eithne Shortall<\/strong>\u00a0(The Sunday Times),\u00a0Sive Bresnihan<\/strong>\u00a0(Dublin Tenants Association),\u00a0Lorcan Sirr<\/strong>\u00a0(School of Real Estate and Construction Economics at the Dublin Institute of\u00a0Technology), Mandy Meredith<\/strong>\u00a0(Associate Director,\u00a0Sherry FitzGerald Lettings), M\u00edche\u00e1l \u00d3 Muircheartaigh <\/strong>(legend), Vlad Sepetov<\/strong> (Kendrick Lamar designer), Nick Gazin<\/strong> (Vice\u2019s art editor and illustrator and Run the Jewels’ designer), Paul Diddy<\/strong> (art director Luaka Bop Records)\u00a0Tim Moore <\/strong>(writer), Carole Coleman<\/strong>\u00a0(RTE reporter and\u00a0former Washington correspondent),\u00a0Dr Karen Devine\u00a0<\/strong>(International\u00a0Relations, School of Law\u00a0& Government, DCU),\u00a0TJ Mulloy<\/strong>\u00a0(Chair of Democrats Abroad\u00a0Ireland),\u00a0Una Mullally<\/strong>\u00a0(The Irish Times),\u00a0Lois Kapila<\/strong>\u00a0(co-founder and managing\u00a0editor\u00a0Dublin Inquirer),\u00a0Blindboy Boatclub<\/strong>\u00a0(The Rubberbandits),\u00a0Dr\u00a0John Gibney<\/strong>\u00a0(TCD\u00a0School of History author and historian and education and outreach officer\u00a0Glasnevin Trust), Mark O\u2018Halloran<\/strong> (writer, Viva),\u00a0Veda<\/strong> (drag queen), Pixie Woo<\/strong>\u00a0(drag queen),\u00a0George Clinton<\/strong> (funk legend), Mattress Mick<\/strong> (the don of bedding),\u00a0Tony Kearns<\/strong> (film editor and photographer),\u00a0Brendan Carty<\/strong> (Feel Good Lost video maker),\u00a0Hugh O\u2019Conor<\/strong> (director),\u00a0Dave Tynan<\/strong> (director),\u00a0Mike Donnelly<\/strong>\u00a0(director), Eddie Otchere<\/strong> (hip-hop photographer), Gemma O\u2019Doherty<\/strong> (investigative journalist), Lois Kapila<\/strong> (Dublin Inquirer managing editor),\u00a0Niamh Kirk<\/strong> (DCU School of Communications PhD researcher and Institute for Future Media and Journalism member), Aoife McElwain<\/strong> (Slow Series),\u00a0Ronan Hession<\/strong>\u00a0(civil servant and musician),\u00a0Michelle Darmody<\/strong>\u00a0(owner of\u00a0Cake Cafe\u00a0and\u00a0Slice),\u00a0Leisha McGrath<\/strong>\u00a0(organisational psychologist), Ann Lowney<\/strong> (The Makers Stories), Peter Walsh<\/strong> (freediver), Danny Wang<\/strong> (DJ), Blindboy Boatclub<\/strong> (Rubberbandits), Steve McCarthy<\/strong> (illustrator),\u00a0Declan O\u2019Donnell<\/strong> (architect),\u00a0Fuchsia Macaree<\/strong> (illustrator),\u00a0Rob Mirolo<\/strong> (designer), Roisin Agnew<\/strong> (journalist, writer and editor), Dominique McMullan<\/strong>\u00a0(Irish Times fashion writer),\u00a0Rosie O\u2019Reilly<\/strong>\u00a0(Creative Director at Re-dress and founder of We Are Islanders),\u00a0Annique Van Niekerk<\/strong>\u00a0(sustainable fashion\u00a0designer),\u00a0Rebecca Winckworth<\/strong>\u00a0(founder of White & Green Fairtrade Cotton brand),\u00a0Yvonne O\u2019Callaghan<\/strong> (SIPTU), Ali Kelly<\/strong>\u00a0(Nu.Ethical), Dave Morrissey<\/strong>\u00a0(Facebook),\u00a0Aaron Chalke<\/strong>\u00a0(Mediaworks), Cara McAuley<\/strong>\u00a0(Starcom), Claire Howlin<\/strong> (Psychology Society of Ireland\u2019s SIGMAC group),\u00a0Brendan Rooney<\/strong> (Psychology Society of Ireland\u2019s SIGMAC group),\u00a0Derek Laffan<\/strong> (Psychology Society of Ireland\u2019s SIGMAC group),\u00a0Nicola Hamilton<\/strong> (Psychology Society of Ireland\u2019s SIGMAC group), Christian Harris<\/strong>\u00a0(managing director of Deezer UK and Ireland),\u00a0Eoghan McDermott<\/strong>\u00a0(2fm DJ), \u00a0Angela Dorgan\u00a0(CEO, First Music Contact), Bressie<\/strong> (musician, singer and mental health activist), Colm Mac Con Iomaire<\/strong> (musician),\u00a0Steve Davis<\/strong>\u00a0(DJ and snooker legend), Tommy Tiernan<\/strong> (comedian), John Lillis<\/strong> (MynameisJohn\/Rusangano Family), Nessa McGann<\/strong> (programme controller, Spin South West), Ciar\u00e1n Ryan<\/strong> (Out On A Limb Records, documentary maker), Dr Shaun O’Boyle<\/strong> (Science Gallery, Dublin Maker, Maurice & Shaun), Amanda Webb<\/strong> (Spider Working), Dr Kenneth McKenzie<\/strong> (Strategic Planning Director with Target McConnells),\u00a0Eric Narioo<\/strong>\u00a0(founder\u00a0Les Caves de Pyrene),\u00a0Pascal Rossigno<\/strong>l\u00a0(owner,\u00a0Le Caveau Wine Merchants),\u00a0Julie Dupouy<\/strong>\u00a0(sommelier, third place\u00a0Association de la Sommellerie Internationale\u00a0world championships),\u00a0John Wilson<\/strong>\u00a0(The Irish Times),\u00a0Shane Murphy<\/strong>\u00a0(La Rousse Wines), Gerald Fleming<\/strong>\u00a0(Head of Forecasting at Met Eireann),\u00a0Mary Fogarty<\/strong>\u00a0(The Cottage, Loughmore, Co Tipperary),\u00a0Maeve O\u2019Hair<\/strong>\u00a0(The Cottage, Loughmore, Co Tipperary),\u00a0Marion Keogh<\/strong> (Bloom Fringe),\u00a0R\u00f3is\u00edn de Buitl\u00e9ar<\/strong>\u00a0(Bloom Fringe), John Fagan<\/strong> (Big Week On the Farm), Dr Eddie Murphy<\/strong> (Operation Transformation),\u00a0Justin McCarthy<\/strong>\u00a0(editor Farmers Journal),\u00a0\u00a0Aoife Ryan<\/strong>\u00a0(Retail In Motion), Diarmuid Murphy<\/strong> (brand manager, Dunnes Stores), James Watson<\/strong> (Food Director, Dunnes Stores), Derek Murphy<\/strong> (food service manager, Topaz), Anna Marie McHugh<\/strong> (National\u00a0Ploughing Championships), Mark Moriarty<\/strong> (chef),\u00a0Niamh Bushnell\u00a0<\/strong>(Dublin Commissioner for Startups),\u00a0Maureen Gahan\u00a0(Bord Bia),\u00a0Dr\u00a0Arlene Crampsie<\/strong> (UCD School of\u00a0Geography),\u00a0Fiann \u00d3 Nuall\u00e1in (The Holistic Gardener), Aran McMahon<\/strong> (Cafe Rua),\u00a0David Flynn<\/strong> (The Happy Pear), Stephen Flynn<\/strong> (The Happy Pear),\u00a0Sarah Keogh<\/strong>\u00a0(Eatwell), Patrick Deeley<\/strong> (writer) Brian Burke<\/strong> (gardener), Alison Cowzer<\/strong> (Dragons Den), Catherine Fulvio<\/strong> (Ballyknocken House & Cookery School), Darragh McCullough<\/strong> (Ear to the Ground, Farming Independent), Philip Boucher Hayes<\/strong> (RTE radio and TV reporter and presenter), Suzanne Campbell<\/strong> (food and farming author, journalist and producer),\u00a0Steve Lock\u00a0<\/strong>(Grassometer),\u00a0John\u00a0Larkin<\/strong>\u00a0(Moocall), Dr Erin Tiedeken<\/strong>\u00a0(All-Ireland Pollinator Plan), Peter McVerry<\/strong> (social justice activist and campaigner), Colin Harmon<\/strong> (3FE), Barry Kavanagh<\/strong> (Social Farming Ireland),\u00a0Hugh Scully<\/strong>\u00a0(festival director at\u00a0Interlude, owner\u00a0Coppa\u00a0and RFID and event technology representative),\u00a0Jonny Boyle<\/strong>\u00a0(Strategic Director at\u00a0Modern Green),\u00a0Yotam Ottolenghi<\/strong> (chef, cookery writer and restaurant owner), Jess Murphy<\/strong>\u00a0(Kai, Galway),\u00a0John Farrell<\/strong>\u00a0(Dillingers, The Butchers Grill, Super Miss Sue, Luna, 777 etc, Dublin),\u00a0Seamus Sheridan<\/strong>\u00a0(Sheridans Cheesemongers),\u00a0Hilary Quinn<\/strong>\u00a0(Dublin Doughnut Co),\u00a0Sally McKenna<\/strong>\u00a0(John & Sally McKenna\u2019s Guides), Steve Leighton\u00a0<\/strong>(Hasbean Coffee, London),\u00a0Colin Harmon<\/strong>\u00a0(3FE, Dublin),\u00a0Joanna Alm<\/strong>\u00a0(Drop Coffee, Stockholm), Marc Kingston<\/strong> (The Golden Bean, Cork), Fingal Ferguson<\/strong>\u00a0(farmer, charcutier, cheese maker, butcher and knife maker),\u00a0John Relihan<\/strong>\u00a0(Holy Smoke, Cork and Duagh BBQ Festival), Andy Noonan<\/strong>\u00a0(Big Grill festival), Susan Daly<\/strong>\u00a0(editor,\u00a0The Journal),\u00a0Richie Oakley<\/strong>\u00a0(editor,\u00a0The Times Ireland edition),\u00a0Vincent Murphy<\/strong>\u00a0(editor,\u00a0Morning Ireland,\u00a0RTE Radio One), Neneh Cherry\u00a0<\/strong>(musician and singer), John Lillis<\/strong> (Rusangano Family), Murli <\/strong>(Rusangano Family), God Knows <\/strong>(Rusangano Family),\u00a0<\/strong>Philip King<\/strong> (RTE South Wind Blows, RTE Radio One), Donal Dineen<\/strong> (DJ and broadcaster), Kelly-Ann Byrne<\/strong> (Today FM and TXFM DJ),\u00a0Colin Hart<\/strong>\u00a0(founder and creative director of independent ad agency\u00a0The Public House),\u00a0Sam Bishop<\/strong>\u00a0(manager of\u00a0Happenings\u00a0and founder of\u00a0Street Feast\u00a0and\u00a0Granby Park), Aine O\u2019Mahony<\/strong>\u00a0(marketing and event management consultant), \u00a0Barry Andrews<\/strong> (GOAL chief executive), Jane-Ann McKenna<\/strong> (M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res Ireland\u00a0director), Mary Russell<\/strong> (writer and author), Ian Dempsey<\/strong> (Today FM), Tom Lyons<\/strong> (Sunday Business Post),\u00a0Angela Dorgan<\/strong> (First Music Contact),\u00a0Bren Byrne<\/strong> (founder Offset festival),\u00a0Colm Keegan<\/strong> (founder Lingo festival),\u00a0Penny Hart<\/strong> (producer RTE Radio One),\u00a0Laurence Mackin<\/strong> (arts editor The Irish Times),\u00a0Niall Byrne<\/strong> (Nialler9),\u00a0Dave Morrissey<\/strong> (Facebook),\u00a0Amy Herron<\/strong> (Irish Writers Centre),\u00a0Sinead O\u2019Carroll<\/strong>\u00a0(News Editor, TheJournal.ie),\u00a0Hugh Linehan<\/strong>\u00a0(Culture Editor, The Irish Times), Jane Suiter<\/strong>\u00a0(DCU School of Communications and Institute for Future Media and\u00a0Journalism),\u00a0Jenny Keogh<\/strong>\u00a0(photographer, film-maker and director of Story Bud?),\u00a0Aoife Dooley<\/strong>\u00a0(Dublin Hun\u00a0creator and illustrator), Derek O\u2019Connor<\/strong> (writer and film-maker), Willie Thorne<\/strong> (snooker legend)<\/p>\n

Musical performers at Banter during the year: Caoimh\u00edn \u000f\u00d3 Raghallaigh & Cormac Begley, Ailbhe Reddy, Jealous of the Birds, Jack O’Rourke,\u00a0All Tvvins, Elaine Mai,\u00a0Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Rusangano Family,\u00a0Ailie Blunnie,\u00a0Paul Noonan<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kathy Sheridan <\/strong>(The Irish Times), Grainne Healy <\/strong>(co-director Yes Equality campaign), Zo\u00eb Comyns <\/strong>(independent radio producer and founder New Normal Culture),\u00a0<\/strong>Donal<\/strong> Lunny<\/strong> (musician and producer), Una Mullally<\/strong> (journalist, author, activist and broadcaster), Nadine O’Regan<\/strong> (arts editor Sunday Business Post and broadcaster TXFM), Jean Curran<\/strong>\u00a0(photographer), Eoin \u00d3 Broin<\/strong> (Sinn Fein councillor and strategist), Conor Horgan<\/strong> (film-maker), Katie Holly<\/strong> (Blinder Films producer), John Potter<\/strong> (musician), Linda Buckley<\/strong> (composer), Benedit Schlepper-Connolly<\/strong> (Ergodos record label director), Tony Sheehan<\/strong> (Triskel Cork artistic director), Brian McMahon <\/strong>(Brand New Retro), Joe Collins <\/strong>(Brand New Retro), Sinead Kenny <\/strong>(Brand New Retro),\u00a0Vincent Hogan<\/strong> (chief sportswriter, The Irish Independent), John Leonard <\/strong>(author Dub Sub Confidential), Mairead Lavery\u00a0<\/strong>(Farmer’s Journal, Irish Country Living),\u00a0Sarah Duggan\u00a0<\/strong>(Little Green Grocer Shop), Keith Bohanna<\/strong> (Bia Beag),\u00a0Ken Ecock<\/strong>\u00a0(Oceanpath, Dunns Seafare),\u00a0Frances Walsh<\/strong>\u00a0(The Honest Project),\u00a0Caroline Seale\u00a0<\/strong>(Discover Nutrition),\u00a0Colin Jephson <\/strong>(Ardkeen Quality Food Stores),\u00a0<\/strong>Declan Furlong <\/strong>(chef), Colin Greensmith <\/strong>(Pallas Foods), Blathnaid Bergin<\/strong>\u00a0(The Restaurant Advisor),\u00a0Dalton Greene<\/strong>\u00a0(Canteen Limerick),\u00a0Paul Williams<\/strong>\u00a0(Canteen Limerick),\u00a0Tommy Cooke\u00a0<\/b>(farmer, Teagasc board member and\u00a0member of the national council of ICMSA),\u00a0<\/b>Rod Calder-Potts<\/strong>\u00a0(Highbank Organic Orchards & Farm),\u00a0Patrick Lydon<\/strong>\u00a0(Camphill Callan), Mag Kirwan<\/strong> (Goatsbridge Trout Farm), Jessica Hopper <\/strong>(Pitchfork senior editor, Pitchfork Review editor-in-chief and author), Tonie Walsh <\/strong>(DJ and activist), Conor Behan <\/strong>(DJ and journalist), Will St Leger <\/strong>(artist, DJ and activist), Mimi Rouge <\/strong>(Partie Monster), Roisin Ingle <\/strong>(The Irish Times), Lisa Farrelly <\/strong>(Abbey Theatre), Ken Early<\/strong> (Second Captains), Andrew Mangan <\/strong>(Castaway Media),\u00a0Levi Roots<\/strong> (musician, chef and Reggae Reggae Sauce man), Billy Scurry<\/strong> (DJ and chef), DJ Yoda<\/strong> (DJ and Austens Smokehouse), DJ BBQ<\/strong> (DJ and broadcaster), Andre de Luca<\/strong> (Boss BBQ, Sao Paulo), Catherine Cleary<\/strong> (Irish Times restaurant reviewer), Aoife McElwain<\/strong> (Forkful), Tyson Ho (Arrogant Swine, New York), Tom Gleeson<\/strong> (Bunsen Burger), Kellie Hasbury<\/strong> (Grillstock),\u00a0Barry McNerney\u00a0<\/strong>(Juniors, Paulie’s Pizza, The Old Spot, Lotts & Co),\u00a0Cameron Wallace\u00a0<\/strong>(Eight Degrees), Caroline Hennessy <\/strong>(journalist, broadcaster and co-author “Sl\u00e1inte – The Complete Guide to Irish Craft Beer and Cider), Kevin Hurley<\/strong> (global ambassador Teeling Whiskey), Dave Morrissey<\/strong> (The Porterhouse, Dingle Whiskey), Peter Hannan<\/strong> (The Meat Merchant),\u00a0John Relihan<\/strong> (Duagh BBQ Festival), Oliver Byrne<\/strong> (Bison), Matt Williams<\/strong> (Oxford Charcoal Company), Donal Cahill<\/strong> (My Meat Wagon),\u00a0Rebecca Cronin\u00a0<\/strong>(Ballymaloe Litfest),\u00a0Ger Mullally<\/strong>\u00a0(Savour Kilkenny),\u00a0Ketty Elizabeth<\/strong> (French Foodie In Dublin),\u00a0Samuel Bishop<\/strong> (Street Feast Ireland),\u00a0Kevin Barry<\/strong> (author),\u00a0Brendan Canty (Feel Good Lost), Damien O’Reilly<\/strong> (RTE Radio One Countrywide), Mairead Lavery<\/strong> (Farmer’s Journal, Irish Country Living), Pat Lalor<\/strong> (Ballard Organic Farm, Kilbeggan Organic Foods), Fiann \u00d3 Nuall\u00e1in<\/strong> (The Holistic Gardener), Adrian Martin<\/strong> (Chef Martin), David Flynn<\/strong> (The Happy Pear), Stephen Flynn<\/strong> (The Happy Pear), Gary Graham<\/strong> (Bloom show manager), Evelyn Cusack<\/strong> (RTE weather presenter and Deputy Head of Forecasting at Met \u00c9ireann), Damian Corless<\/strong> (author and writer), Aidan Stacey<\/strong> (head of fundraising at GOAL), Joan Freeman<\/strong> (founder of Pieta House), Marian Carroll<\/strong> (CEO the Ronald McDonald House Charity), Niall Hatch<\/strong> (Birdwatch Ireland), Richard Collins<\/strong> (RTE Radio One Mooney Goes Wild team), Peter Ward<\/strong> (Country Choice), Birgitta Curtin<\/strong> (Burren Smokehouse), Neven Maguire<\/strong> (chef), Oliver Dunne<\/strong> (chef), Declan Rice<\/strong> (Kilkenny LEADER partnership company), Darragh McCullough<\/strong> (RTE TV Ear to the Ground, Irish Independent deputy farming editor), Richard Moeran<\/strong> (chairman Agri Aware), John Lynskey<\/strong> (IFA), Aine Lawlor<\/strong> (RTE Radio One), Dee Sewell<\/strong> (Greenside Up horticulturist), Luke Rothwell<\/strong> (Collinstown Park Community College Transition Year student),\u00a0James Adair<\/strong> (Collinstown Park Community College Transition Year student), Aidan Cotter<\/strong> (CEO Bord Bia), Alan Kingston<\/strong> (Glenilen Farm), Patrick Rooney<\/strong> (Derrycamma Farm),\u00a0\u00a0Niall Harbison<\/strong> (founder Lovin’ Dublin), Emily Cunnane<\/strong> (senior community manager Yelp), Leo Molloy<\/strong> (777, SuperMissSue etc),\u00a0Henry Dummer <\/strong>(director of marketing Tesco), Norman Rides <\/strong>(general manager Dublin Food Co-Op), Joe Doyle <\/strong>(founder Donnybrook Fair), Rachel Firth <\/strong>(general manager Fallon & Byrne), Allegra McEvedy<\/strong> (chef, broadcaster, food writer and co-founder of Leon and Blackfoot), Sarit Packer<\/strong> (Honey and Co),\u00a0Itamar Srulovich<\/strong> (Honey & Co),\u00a0Arun Kapil<\/strong> (Green Saffron), David Lebovitz<\/strong> (food writer, blogger, author and formerly of Chez Panisse), Michael Kelly<\/strong>\u00a0(founder GIY movement),\u00a0Matthew E White <\/strong>(musician), David Sax <\/strong>(author The Tastemakers), Peter Conroy<\/strong>\u00a0(Irish Tow Surf Rescue Club),\u00a0Ed Temperley<\/strong>\u00a0(editor\u00a0Magic Seaweed),\u00a0Brian Britton<\/strong>\u00a0(co-founder Irish Surf Association),\u00a0<\/strong>Henry Moore <\/strong>(chairman Irish Surfing Association),\u00a0Tony McMahon\u00a0<\/strong>(owner of\u00a0Johnnie Fox\u2019s),\u00a0Trevor O\u2019Shea\u00a0<\/strong>(Bodytonic, the Bernard Shaw, The Twisted Pepper, MVP, The Back Page and The Yacht),\u00a0Se\u00e1neen Sullivan\u00a0<\/strong>(L Mulligan Grocer), Oliver Hughes\u00a0<\/strong>(CEO\u00a0the Portherhouse Group\u00a0and founder of the\u00a0Dingle Distillery),\u00a0Ivor Browne <\/strong>(psychiatrist and author), Karen Hand<\/strong> (doctoral researcher and author),\u00a0<\/strong>Colm Mac Con Iomaire<\/strong> (musician),\u00a0<\/strong>Ruair\u00ed McKiernan <\/strong>(social innovator, campaigner, Presidential appointee to\u00a0Ireland\u2019s Council of State, founder of\u00a0SpunOut), Jessy Rose<\/strong>\u00a0(singer with\u00a0Hare Squead),\u00a0Melissa Kavanagh<\/strong>\u00a0(poet,\u00a0Bave New Voices Atlanta 2015),\u00a0Lia Grogan\u00a0<\/strong>(SpunOut\u00a0contributer),\u00a0Jordan Casey\u00a0<\/strong>(programmer and games\u00a0developer),\u00a0Gavin Dunne<\/strong> (Miracle Of Sound), James Byrne<\/strong> (Any Other City, Villagers), David Duffy<\/strong> (Eat My Noise Productions), Aoife Potter-Cogan<\/strong> (Cork Community Art Link), Siobhan Kane<\/strong> (Young Hearts Run Free),\u00a0Una Mullally<\/strong>\u00a0(The Irish Times, TG4, author In the Name of Love), Molly King<\/strong> (Banter Other Voices producer), Derek O\u2019Connor<\/strong>\u00a0(scriptwriter and film-maker),\u00a0Angela Dorgan\u00a0<\/strong>(FMC\/Hard Working Class Heroes),\u00a0Ian Wilson <\/strong>(RTE 2fm producer), Kevin O’Sullivan<\/strong> (editor The Irish Times), Des Gibson<\/strong> (editor Irish Daily Star), Ian Kehoe<\/strong> (editor Sunday Business Post), Kevin Bakhurst<\/strong> (RTE\u00a0Managing Director News and Current Affairs and Deputy Director General), Timo<\/strong> (Umack Promotions), John Mahon<\/strong> (The Locals),\u00a0Aisling Rogerson<\/strong>\u00a0(The Fumbally), Lynn Daly<\/strong> (Dublin City Council events team),\u00a0Conor Cusack<\/strong> (Gaelic Players Association mental health ambassador and former Cork hurler), Nora Stapleton<\/strong> (Women\u2019s and Girls Rugby Development Executive with the IRFU, member of the Ireland XVs squad and Donegal Ladies Gaelic football),\u00a0David Corkery<\/strong>\u00a0(former Ireland, Munster, Cork Cons and Bristol rugby player)<\/p>\n

Musical performers at Banter during the year: Slow Moving Clouds, Sample Answer, Saint Sister, Hare Squead,<\/strong>\u00a0M\u00e9abh N\u00ed Bheaglaioch<\/strong>,\u00a0Matt Griffin,\u00a0<\/strong>Matthew E White<\/strong>,\u00a0Colm Mac Con Iomaire,<\/strong>\u00a0Villagers<\/strong>, Caoimh\u00edn O Raghallaigh<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nial Conlan<\/strong> (Delorentos), Kieran McGuinness<\/strong> (Delorentos), Gavin Sheridan<\/strong> (TheStory.ie, VizLegal), Paddy Cosgrave<\/strong> (Web Summit founder), Noirin Hegarty<\/strong> (Lonely Planet managing editor), Paul Galvin<\/strong> (Kerry footballer), Rob Doyl<\/strong>e (novelist), Bill Malone<\/strong> (Channel Controller RTE2), Joe Caslin<\/strong> (artist),\u00a0John Lyons <\/strong>(Labour Party TD), Ailbhe Smith <\/strong>(LGBT rights activist), Tonie Walsh <\/strong>(LGBT rights activist,\u00a0Irish Queer Archive curator), Una Mullally\u00a0<\/strong>(The Irish Times, TG4, author In the Name of Love), Mick Wallace\u00a0<\/strong>(Independent TD),\u00a0Rory O’Neill<\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0(Panti),\u00a0Ann Marie Hourihane\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>(journalist),\u00a0Louise McSharry\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>(2fm DJ), Sali Hughes <\/strong>(The Guardian’s beauty columnist and author “Pretty Honest”), Marian Keyes <\/strong>(author), Alan Kavanagh\u00a0<\/strong>(Edward Dillons Spirit Portfolio Ambassador and owner of\u00a0Total Cocktail Solutions),\u00a0Paul Lambert<\/strong>\u00a0(Upstairs @ Kinara Kitchen\u00a0and\u00a0The Blind Pig),\u00a0Joanne Cronin\u00a0<\/strong>(Stitch & Bear\u00a0food and drink blog),\u00a0Stephen Teeling\u00a0<\/strong>(part owner of\u00a0Teeling Whiskey),\u00a0Venetia Quick\u00a0<\/strong>(Connected),\u00a0Kate McGrew<\/strong>\u00a0(Connected),\u00a0Bill Malone\u00a0<\/strong>(Channel Controller, RTE 2),\u00a0Anna Nolan\u00a0<\/strong>(TV presenter and journalist), Fintan Drury <\/strong>(sports agent Platinum One), Niamh Bushnell<\/strong> (Dublin Commissioner for Start-Ups), John Healy<\/strong> (RTE The Restaurant), Catherine Cleary<\/strong> (The Irish Times), Dee Laffan<\/strong> (Easy Food), Fiona Dillon <\/strong>(food writer), Yvonne Carty<\/strong> (Hey Pesto), Aoife Ryan <\/strong>(Babaduck.com), Marie Claire Digby<\/strong> (The Irish Times), Denise McBrien<\/strong> (Pichet), Paul O’Connor<\/strong> (Savour Kilkenny), Blathnaid Bergin<\/strong> (The Restaurant Advisor), Una Mullally<\/strong> (The Irish Times, TG4), Sinead Kelly<\/strong> (Hunt & Gather), Dave Smith<\/strong> (Mabos, Kings Of Concrete), Richard Seabrooke<\/strong> (Offset, Thinkhouse),\u00a0Rick O’Shea<\/strong> (2fm), Dearbhail McDonald<\/strong>\u00a0Iirish Independent), Fiona Hyde<\/strong> (The Daily Edge\/The Journal), Mark Smyth<\/strong> (clinical psychologist),\u00a0Pat Collins <\/strong>(film-maker), Iarla O Lion\u00e1ird <\/strong>(singer, songwriter, musician and member of The Gloaming), Nuala O’Connor <\/strong>(film-maker South Wind Blows), Mary Reynolds <\/strong>(nature activist and Chelsea Flower Show gold medal winner), Rory O’Connell <\/strong>(Ballymaloe Cookery School, author Master It: How To Cook Today), Sully <\/strong>(Cully & Sully), Kieran Murphy <\/strong>(Murphy’s Ice Cream), Maisha Lenehan<\/strong>\u00a0(Bibis),\u00a0Barry Stephens<\/strong>\u00a0(147),\u00a0Ketty Elisabeth<\/strong> (French Foodie In Dublin), Aisling Rogerson<\/strong> (The Fumbally), Jamie Byng<\/strong> (Cannongate publisher), John Leland<\/strong> (New York Times, author Hip: The History), Hannah Donovan<\/strong> (co-founder This Is My Jam), Steve Carson<\/strong> (Head of Production, BBC Northern Ireland),\u00a0Melvin Benn <\/strong>(managing director Festival Republic), Philip King <\/strong>(Other Voices), Niall Byrne<\/strong> (Nialler9),\u00a0Angela Dorgan<\/strong>\u00a0(FMC\/Hard Working Class Heroes),\u00a0Brendan Canty<\/strong>\u00a0(Feel Good Lost), Stevie Grainger<\/strong>\u00a0(Red FM), Eileen Hogan<\/strong> (UCC), Jack Crotty<\/strong> (Rocket Man), <\/span>Meltybrains? <\/strong>(musicians and would-be comedians), Colm O\u2019Herlihy<\/strong> (Mountain Dew festival), <\/span>Mike Fitzpatrick<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(director<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Limerick City of Culture 2014<\/span>),\u00a0<\/span>Monica Spencer<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(board member of the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Arts Council<\/span>, actor, director and youth drama facilitator with Creative Communities Limerick Network),<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Catherine O\u2019Halloran<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(Senior Youth Worker, \u00a0<\/span>Draw Out Project<\/span>\u00a0and board member of the Make a Move Festival),<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Michael Finneran<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(<\/span>head of<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the Department of Arts Education & Physical<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Education in Mary Immaculate College<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Bare Space Theatre Company and <\/span>Lime Tree Theatre<\/span>),\u00a0<\/span>Domhnall Gleeson<\/strong> (actor), Lenny Abrahamson<\/strong> (film-maker), Stephen Rennicks<\/strong> (composer), Niall Harbison<\/strong> (founder LovinDublin), Kate Coleman<\/strong> (editor Le Cool Dublin), Ian Lamont<\/strong> (editor Totally Dublin), James Redmond<\/strong> (Rabble),\u00a0Rhianna Pratchett<\/strong> (scriptwriter, story designer), Sam Lipstyte<\/strong> (author The Ask, The Fun Parts), Adrian Crowley<\/strong> (musician), Maria Doyle Kennedy<\/strong> (musician and actor), Nial Conlan<\/strong> (Delorentos, Monthly General Meeting),\u00a0Dawn O’Porter<\/strong> (author and TV presenter), Damian Barr<\/strong> (author Maggie & Me and founder The Literary Salon), Brian Kerr<\/strong> (former football manger Republic Of Ireland), Steve Redmond<\/strong> (swimmer), Micheal Nagle<\/strong> (Paddy Power social media manager), Nick Ryan<\/strong> (director The Summit), Michael Moynihan<\/strong> (The Irish Examiner, author GAAconomics), Clare McNamara<\/strong> (RTE Sports), Vincent Hogan<\/strong> (chief sportswriter The Irish Independent), Tim Lewis<\/strong> (The Guardian, author Land of Second Promises), Gavin Cummiskey<\/strong> (The Irish Times), Ken Doherty<\/strong> (snooker player and broadcaster), Shane McGrath<\/strong> (Irish Daily Mail chief sportswriter), Mick O’Keeffe<\/strong> (former Dublin football player), Fiona Coghlan<\/strong> (Irish women\u2019s rugy team captain), Elaine Buckley<\/strong> (writer and broadcaster), Eamon Zayed<\/strong> (Shamrock Rovers and Libya), Ed Randolph<\/strong> (former basketball professional player and coach),\u00a0Garrett Mullan<\/strong> (Show Racism the Red Card),\u00a0Emmet Malone<\/strong> (The Irish Times),\u00a0Jon Ronson <\/strong>(writer, author and film-maker), Ben Watt<\/strong> (musician and author), Denise Charlton<\/strong> (Immigrant Council of Ireland), Colm O’Gorman<\/strong> (author, activist, director of Amnesty International Ireland and founder of One in Four), Paddy Cullivan<\/strong> (The Camembert Quartet, Leviathan, Callan’s Kicks), Sinead Gleeson<\/strong> (RTE Radio One The Book Show, RTE TV The Works, The Irish Times),\u00a0Ciara Scanlan<\/strong> (MART), Peter O’Brien<\/strong> (Upstart, Happenings, Granby Park), Orlaith Ross<\/strong> (The Crypt), Laura G Dovn<\/strong> (Block T),\u00a0Martin Hayes <\/strong>(The Gloaming), Annie Mac <\/strong>(BBC Radio One), Lloyd Bradley <\/strong>(author and music writer), Paul Duane <\/strong>(film-maker), Michael Hann <\/strong>(music editor The Guardian), David Caffrey <\/strong>(Love\/Hate director), Conor Masterson <\/strong>(photographer and director – The Frames’ In the Deep Shade), Peter McVerry<\/strong> (Peter McVerry Trust), Richie Sadlier\u00a0<\/strong>(former Irish professional footballer and pundit for RTE and Second Captains), David Gillick<\/strong> (athlete), Liam Moggan<\/strong> (Coaching Ireland)<\/p>\n

Musical performers at Banter during the year: Deirdre Granville, Rusangano\u00a0Family<\/strong> (Godknows, MuRli\u00a0& MynameisjOhn),\u00a0Aoife Granville, Niall Begley, Gerry O’Beirne, Soak,\u00a0<\/strong>Daniel Martin Moore, Joan Shelley,<\/strong>\u00a0Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Eve Murtagh, Sive<\/strong><\/p>\n

2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aine Lawlor <\/strong>(RTE Radio One News At One, RTE TV Week In Politics), Alison Curtis <\/strong>(Today FM), Paddy Cosgrave<\/strong> (Web Summit, F.ounders), Ciaran Walsh<\/strong> (Le Cool Dublin), David Gray <\/strong>(musician), David Arnold <\/strong>(composer and musician), John Grant <\/strong>(musician), Donal Ryan<\/strong> (novelist), Michael Moynihan <\/strong>(Irish Examiner sports writer and author of “GAAconomics”), Pat Leahy <\/strong>(Sunday Business Post political editor and author of “Showtime” and “The Price of Power”), Eimear McBride <\/strong>(novelist), Alice Maher <\/strong>(artist), Gerard Barrett <\/strong>(film-maker), Jack Reynor <\/strong>(actor), Wissame Cherfi <\/strong>(film maker), Monika Sapielak <\/strong>(Centre for Creative Practice), Hassan Lemtouni <\/strong>(cafe owner), Minhee Won <\/strong>(financial data research specialist), Sean O’Hagan<\/strong> (The Observer), Glenn Patterson<\/strong> (author, lecturer and Good Vibrations\u2019 scriptwriter), Katie Richardson<\/strong> (Katie & The Carnival), <\/b>Brian Coney<\/strong> (editor, The Thin Air), <\/b>Alan McGee<\/strong> (Creation Records and all-round legend),\u00a0<\/b>Ella McSweeney<\/strong>\u00a0(RTE Ear to the Ground, RTE Radio One Countrywide, BBC Radio 4),\u00a0Dr \u00c1ine Macken Walsh<\/strong>\u00a0(research officer at Teagasc\u2019s Rural Economy and Development programme),\u00a0David Meredith<\/strong>\u00a0(Teagasc),\u00a0Ronan Byrne<\/strong>\u00a0(The Friendly Farmer), Ronan Lyons<\/strong> (economist Daft.ie and Trinity College Dublin),\u00a0Colette Browne<\/strong> (Irish Independent), Karl Deeter<\/strong> (advisor and analyst at Irish Mortgage Brokers and Advisors.ie), Lorcan Sirr<\/strong> (lecturer in housing studies and urban economics at\u00a0DIT),\u00a0Darina Allen <\/strong>(Ballymaloe Cookery School), Gerry Godley <\/strong>(Hot Potatoes), Caroline Hennessy <\/strong>(Bibliocook), Damien Mulley <\/strong>(Mulley Communications), Una Mullally <\/strong>(The Irish Times), Patrick Guinness<\/strong> (historian and author), Manch\u00e1n Magan\u00a0<\/strong>(writer and documentary-maker), Philip King <\/strong>(broadcaster and film-maker), Tim Magee <\/strong>(Host & Company PR), Ciaran Fitzgerald <\/strong>(Blue Haven Collection), Colm Mac Con Iomaire <\/strong>(musician),\u00a0Anne Bedos <\/strong>(Rothar), Rebecca Moynihan <\/strong>(Dublin City Councillor), Damien \u00d3 Tuama <\/strong>(National Cycling Coordinator Cyclist.ie),\u00a0Steve Myers<\/strong> (CERN), Fiona McAnena<\/strong> (Clearhound), Fred Bolza<\/strong> (Sony Music), David Emery<\/strong> (Kobalt Music), Sam McGregor<\/strong> (Signature Brews), Wilson Kriegel<\/strong> (PalTalk), Jay Onda<\/strong> (NTT DOCOMO), Aaron Taylor<\/strong> (GoPrezzo), Brendan O’Driscoll<\/strong> (Soundwave), Michael Spencer Jones<\/strong> (photographer), Stephen O’Reilly<\/strong> (Shuffler.fm), Adam Perry<\/strong> (Bloodhound Gang\/BandApp), Colin Doran<\/strong> (Hundred Reasons\/BandApp),\u00a0Susan Carpenter<\/strong> (An Lar TV), Peter Gregson <\/strong>(composer), Utah Saints<\/strong>\u00a0(musicians), Miriam O’Callaghan<\/strong> (RTE Radio One\/RTE Prime Time), Caroline Clarke<\/strong> (Newstalk producer), Yvonne Judge<\/strong> (broadcaster, \u00a0radio producer with RTE Radio One and 2fm and former editor and deputy head of 2fm), John Purcell<\/strong> (chairman of Independent Broadcasters of Ireland, CEO KCLR 96FM and director of Newstalk), Neil Hannon<\/strong> (The Divine Comedy), Mark Yarm<\/strong> (author Everybody Loves Our Town), Cormac Battle<\/strong> (2fm, Kerbdog), Canice Kenealy<\/strong> (Engine Alley), Malcolm Noonan<\/strong> (Jerusalem Taxis, Kilkenny County Council), Angela Scanlon<\/strong> (stylist and journalist), Sonya Lennon <\/strong>(Lennon Courtney, RTE Off the Rails, Frockadvisor), Orla Tinsley <\/strong>(cystic fibrosis campaigner, journalist, author), Maeve O’Rourke<\/strong> (barrister, Justice for the Magdalenes campaigner), John Smith <\/strong>(Trocaire campaigns co-ordinator), Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn <\/strong>(author), Willie White <\/strong>(Dublin Theatre Festival), Donnacha Dennehy<\/strong> (composer), Maureen Kennelly <\/strong>(arts producer, programmer and curator of Mountains to Sea books festival), Mary O’Rourke <\/strong>(former minister, senator and TD), Eamon Ryan<\/strong> (leader of the Green Party, former minister), Harry Mcgee <\/strong>(Irish Times political correspondant), Sarah O’Neill <\/strong>(Dailwatch), Tony Fenton <\/strong>(Today FM DJ), Fergal McCarthy <\/strong>(visual artist), Sam McGrath <\/strong>(Come Here to Me historian), Kristy Guevara-Flanagan <\/strong>(Wonder Women director), Anna Taylor<\/strong> (Film Fatale), Maura McHugh<\/strong> (Splinster), Peter Hook<\/strong> (New Order and Division musician), Stephen Donnelly<\/strong> (TD), Patrick Freyne<\/strong> (The Irish Times), John Byrne<\/strong> (journalist and broadcaster), Mark O’Halloran<\/strong> (scriptwriter and actor), Ashley Keating<\/strong> (Frank & Walters, Red FM, FIFA Records), Brendan Canty<\/strong> (Feel Good Lost), Stevie Grainger<\/strong> (Red FM, The Pavilion), Lilian Smith<\/strong> (RTE Radio One), Harry Browne<\/strong> (journalist, lecturer and author), Eamon Sweeney<\/strong> (The Irish Independent), Fiona Kearney<\/strong> (Glucksman Gallery), Claire Power<\/strong> (Temple Bar Gallery & Studios), Siobhan Mannion<\/strong> (RTE Radio One), Eithne Shortall<\/strong> (The Sunday Times), Eoin Purcell<\/strong> (New Island Books), Temple Garner<\/strong> (chef San Lorenzo’s), Catherine Cleary<\/strong> (restaurant reviewer The Irish Times), Fiona McHugh<\/strong> (Fallon & Bryne),\u00a0Declan Forde<\/strong> (Forbidden Fruit & POD Concerts), Avril Stanley<\/strong> (Body & Soul), Leagues O\u2019Toole<\/strong> (Aiken Promotions & Harmonic),\u00a0Colin Hession<\/strong>\u00a0(L Mulligan Grocer\u00a0and\u00a0WJ Kavanagh\u2019s, Dublin),\u00a0Grainne Walsh<\/strong>\u00a0(Metalman Brewing, Waterford), \u00a0Alex Lawes<\/strong>\u00a0(homebrewer),\u00a0Sheila Heti\u00a0<\/strong>(author, How Should A\u00a0Person Be?), Sinead Desmond<\/strong>\u00a0(TV3), Roe McDermott<\/strong>\u00a0(Hot Press, Fanny.ie, RTE Arena),\u00a0Karl Ove Knausgaard<\/strong> (author),\u00a0Caoimhin O Raghallaigh<\/strong> (The Gloaming, Triur) Ben Watt<\/strong> (Buzzin\u2019 Fly, Strange Feeling, Everything But the Girl),\u00a0Eva Vermandel<\/strong> (photographer),\u00a0Rich Gilligan<\/strong> (photographer),\u00a0Linda Brownlee<\/strong>\u00a0(photographer), Paul Morley<\/strong> (cultural commentator and curator), Peter Culshaw<\/strong> (journalist and author),\u00a0David Adams<\/strong>\u00a0(SoundCloud),\u00a0Mark Nagurski<\/strong>\u00a0(CultureTECH Derry), Sean Moncrieff<\/strong>\u00a0(Newstalk broadcaster),\u00a0John Buckley<\/strong>\u00a0(SpunOut),\u00a0John Evoy<\/strong>\u00a0(founder\u00a0Irish Men\u2019s Sheds Association),\u00a0<\/strong>James Whelton\u00a0<\/strong>(CoderDojo),\u00a0Niamh O\u2019Mahony<\/strong>\u00a0(journalist, former board member of FORAS and Cork City FC and project manager of an EC-funded Improving\u00a0Football Governance project in Ireland),\u00a0Mary Nally\u00a0<\/strong>(Drop Everything),\u00a0Mark Carry<\/strong>\u00a0(Fractured Air),\u00a0Caspar Llewelyn Smith<\/strong>\u00a0(The Guardian),\u00a0Ludovic Hunter-Tilney<\/strong> (Financial Times),\u00a0Maol\u00edosa Boyle<\/strong>\u00a0(Turner Prize curator, Void gallery, Lumiere\u2019s Brilliant),\u00a0Joe Carlin<\/strong>\u00a0(director of Foyle Pride),\u00a0Abby Oliveira<\/strong>\u00a0(spoken-word poet and artist),\u00a0John Naughton<\/strong> (The Observer\u2019s technology columnist and Open University professor), Bronagh Gallagher<\/strong> (actress and musician), Bridie Monds-Watson<\/strong> (musician Soak),\u00a0Ed Vulliamy<\/strong> (The Observer),\u00a0Mary Fitzgerald<\/strong> (Irish Times\u2019 foreign affairs correspondant),\u00a0Emer Grant\u00a0<\/strong>(Void Gallery),\u00a0Laurie Penny<\/strong>\u00a0(Penny Red),\u00a0Suzy Byrne<\/strong>\u00a0(Maman Poulet),\u00a0Anthea McTiernan<\/strong>\u00a0(Irish Times),\u00a0Ella McSweeney<\/strong>\u00a0(RTE\u2019s\u00a0Ear to the Ground\u00a0and BBC Radio 4),\u00a0Kaethe Burt-O\u2019Dea<\/strong>\u00a0(Sitric Community Garden,\u00a0SPUDS),\u00a0Sinead Keenan<\/strong>\u00a0(Healthy Food For All),\u00a0Andrew Douglas\u00a0<\/strong>(Urban Farm, Dublin).<\/p>\n

Musical performers at Banter during the year: Leanne Harte, Aoife Granville, Niall Begley, Conor Walsh<\/strong>, Idiot Songs, Cormac Begley,<\/strong>\u00a0Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Daithi, Little Bear, Wyvern Lingo,\u00a0Shannon Saunders, Luke Sital-Singh, Olivia Chaney,\u00a0Jesca Hoop,\u00a0Rosie Carney,\u00a0Ryan Vail<\/strong> and George Ezra\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guillem Balague<\/strong>\u00a0(Sky Sports pundit and author),\u00a0Joe Duffy<\/strong>\u00a0(RTE Radio One),\u00a0Una Mullally<\/strong>\u00a0(journalist and broadcaster),\u00a0Emmet Malone<\/strong>\u00a0(Irish Times football\u00a0correspondant),\u00a0Lisa O\u2019Carroll\u00a0<\/strong>(The Guardian media writer),\u00a0Jerry Kennelly<\/strong>\u00a0(Stockbyte and Tweak),\u00a0Kieran Murphy<\/strong>\u00a0(Murphy\u2019s Ice Cream),\u00a0Diarmaid Ferriter<\/strong>\u00a0(historian,\u00a0author),\u00a0Peter Murphy<\/strong>\u00a0(writer),\u00a0Siobhan Mannion<\/strong>\u00a0(writer),\u00a0Sinead Gleeson<\/strong>\u00a0(broadcaster, journalist and editor),\u00a0John Mulholland<\/strong>\u00a0(The Observer editor), Paul Muldoon<\/strong>\u00a0(poet),\u00a0Dermot McLaughlin<\/strong>\u00a0(director Derry\/Londonderry City Of Culture 2013),\u00a0Rosanna Davison<\/strong>\u00a0(former Miss World, model and columnist),\u00a0Eoin Murphy<\/strong>\u00a0(Entertainment Editor, Irish Daily Mail and Mail On Sunday),\u00a0Niamh Horan<\/strong>\u00a0(The Sunday Independent),\u00a0Miriam O\u2019Callaghan<\/strong>\u00a0(RTE),\u00a0Maeve Higgins\u00a0<\/strong>(comedian),\u00a0Martina\u00a0Devlin\u00a0<\/strong>(journalist and author),\u00a0Melanie Morris<\/strong>\u00a0(editor, Image magazine),\u00a0Panti<\/strong>\u00a0(pub landlady and performer),\u00a0Jennifer Gannon<\/strong>\u00a0(State magazine and all-round pop\u00a0champion),\u00a0John Sullivan<\/strong>\u00a0(H2 Films and uber Madonna fan),\u00a0Conor Behan<\/strong>\u00a0(Spin 1038, GCN, DJ),\u00a0Brian Boyd<\/strong>\u00a0(The Irish Times),\u00a0Mark Kavanagh<\/strong>\u00a0(assistant editor Irish\u00a0Daily Star, DJ),\u00a0Brian Spollen\u00a0<\/strong>(MCD Concerts),\u00a0Simon Carswell<\/strong>\u00a0(The Irish Times and author of Anglo Republic: Inside the Bank That Broke Ireland and Something Rotten:\u00a0Irish Banking Scandals),\u00a0Carol Hunt<\/strong>\u00a0(The Sunday Independent),\u00a0John Ryan<\/strong>\u00a0(Broadsheet),\u00a0Enda Leahy<\/strong>\u00a0(Irish Mail On Sunday),\u00a0Nile Rodgers<\/strong>\u00a0(Chic),\u00a0Lenny Abrahamson<\/strong>\u00a0(film-maker),\u00a0Little John Nee<\/strong>\u00a0(performer),\u00a0R\u00f3ise Goan<\/strong>\u00a0(Dublin Fringe director),\u00a0Paul Tarpey<\/strong>\u00a0(Cheebah),\u00a0Kieran Nolan\u00a0<\/strong>(founder of irishhiphop.com),\u00a0mynameisjOhn<\/strong>\u00a0(musician),\u00a0Temper-Mental MissElayneous<\/strong>\u00a0(rapper),\u00a0Bill O\u2019Herlihy<\/strong>\u00a0(RTE sports legend),\u00a0Brian Kerr<\/strong>\u00a0(former manger Republic of Ireland and the Faroe Islands),\u00a0Miguel\u00a0Delaney<\/strong>\u00a0(football journalist and author),\u00a0Michael Foley<\/strong>\u00a0(author The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to be Happy, and Embracing the Ordinary),\u00a0Finian\u00a0Murphy<\/strong>\u00a0(consumer and media researcher),\u00a0Roisin Ingle<\/strong>\u00a0(The Irish Times),\u00a0Frank Fitzgibbon<\/strong>\u00a0(Editor, The Sunday Times Ireland),\u00a0Brian Fallon<\/strong>\u00a0(co-founder Distilled Media\u00a0\u2013 The Journal, Boards.ie, Daft.ie),\u00a0Gavin Sheridan<\/strong>\u00a0(The Story.ie, Storyful),\u00a0Paul Mallon<\/strong>\u00a0(ex-deputy editor The Star On Sunday and assistant editor The Star, editorial\u00a0manager at Paddy Power),\u00a0Garry O\u2019Neill<\/strong>\u00a0(author Where Were You?),\u00a0Mick Heaney<\/strong>\u00a0(The Irish Times),\u00a0Eimear Fitzmaurice<\/strong>\u00a0(Not Saying Boo\/Forward Slash\/Bodytonic\u00a0Music),\u00a0Ian O\u2019Riordan<\/strong>\u00a0(Irish Times journalist and author of \u201cMiles to Run \u2013 Promises to Keep\u201d),\u00a0Raedi Higgins<\/strong>\u00a0(Runs Like A Girl),\u00a0Barry Redsetta<\/strong>\u00a0(Pogo, Jam the Box)<\/p>\n

Musical performers at Banter during the year: Villagers, Soak,\u00a0Triona<\/strong><\/p>\n

2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Miriam O’Callaghan<\/strong> (RTE broadcaster), Sinead Gleeson<\/strong> (journalist and broadcaster), Conor Pope<\/strong> (The Irish TImes), Tim Lawrence<\/strong> (author and biographer),\u00a0Todd Zuniga<\/strong>\u00a0(Literary Death Match),\u00a0Nathan Rabin<\/strong>\u00a0(A.V. Club, The Onion),\u00a0Una Mullally<\/strong> (journalist and broadcaster),\u00a0Enric Palau<\/strong> (Sonar),\u00a0Georgia Taglietti<\/strong> (Sonar),\u00a0Constance Okollet<\/strong> (Climate Wise Women),\u00a0Ursula Rakova<\/strong> (Climate Wise Women),\u00a0Gavin Harte<\/strong>\u00a0(Earthtalks.org),\u00a0Anne Bedos<\/strong>\u00a0(Rothar),\u00a0Colin Harmon<\/strong>\u00a0(3FE Coffee &\u00a0Caf\u00e9),\u00a0Al Coleman\u00a0<\/strong>(Onlineadvertising.ie, TEDxLiffey),\u00a0\u00a0Cici Cavanagh<\/strong>\u00a0(Fade Street reality TV star),\u00a0Patrick Freyne<\/strong>\u00a0(journalist and TV critic),\u00a0Derek O\u2019Connor\u00a0<\/strong>(scriptwriter and film-maker),\u00a0Darren\u00a0Smith<\/strong>\u00a0(Kite Entertainment),\u00a0Elaine Murphy<\/strong>\u00a0(The Winding Stair),\u00a0Aoife Carrigy<\/strong>\u00a0(freelance food & wine writer),\u00a0Darragh Flynn<\/strong>\u00a0(Living Foods,\u00a0The Happy Pear)<\/p>\n

2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gerry Godley<\/strong>\u00a0(Improvised Music Company and Lyric FM),\u00a0Sophie Gorman<\/strong>\u00a0(Irish Independant),\u00a0Richard Seabrooke<\/strong>\u00a0(Offset Festival),\u00a0Hugh Linehan<\/strong>\u00a0(Irish Times online\u00a0editor),\u00a0John Ryan<\/strong>\u00a0(Broadsheet and formerly of Blogorrah, New York Dog and dozens of other titles),\u00a0Michael McDermott\u00a0<\/strong>(Le Cool Dublin),\u00a0Blathnaid Healy<\/strong>\u00a0(RTE), Billy Scurry<\/strong> (DJ and chef),\u00a0Shane Johnson<\/strong>\u00a0(Fish Go Deep),\u00a0Tiddlerz<\/strong>\u00a0(DJ),\u00a0Cillian Stewart\u00a0<\/strong>(Castlepalooza),\u00a0Paul Brown<\/strong>\u00a0(Earagail Arts Festival),\u00a0Paul McLoone<\/strong>\u00a0(Today\u00a0FM, The Undertones),\u00a0Una Mullally<\/strong>\u00a0(Sunday Tribune, TG4\u2032s Ceol Ar An Imeall),\u00a0Declan Forde<\/strong>\u00a0(POD Concerts and Electric Picnic booker), Andy Votel<\/strong> (DJ, producer and record label owner), Donnacha Costello<\/strong> (producer), Come As Soon As You Hear<\/strong> (club promoters), Lerosa<\/strong> (producer), Olan O’Brien<\/strong> (All City), Jenny Huston<\/strong> (DJ, broadcaster and author), Nick Kelly<\/strong> (Irish Independent)<\/p>\n

2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark Murphy<\/strong> (Choice Cuts),\u00a0Richie Egan<\/strong> (Jape),\u00a0Nadine O\u2019Regan<\/strong> (Sunday Business Post, Phantom FM),\u00a0Trevor O’Shea<\/strong> (Bodytonic),\u00a0Peter Symes<\/strong> (Skinny Wolves),\u00a0Dave Parle<\/strong>\u00a0(POD\/Antics),\u00a0Giles Armstrong<\/strong> (Electric Shock), Francois<\/strong> (DJ), Sunil Sharpe<\/strong> (DJ), Niall Byrne<\/strong> (Nialler9), Una Mullally<\/strong> (journalist and broadcaster),\u00a0Anna Troberg<\/strong> (Pirate Party, Sweden), Tonie Walsh<\/strong> (DJ), Paul Webb<\/strong> (DJ), Dylan Haskins<\/strong> (Hideaway House, Roll Up Your Sleeves), Niall McGurk<\/strong> (Hope Promotions),\u00a0Paul McLoone<\/strong> (Today FM),\u00a0The Golden Maverick<\/strong> (Power FM)<\/p>\n

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Here’s a year-by-year list of all those who’ve spoken at Banter and Banter-related events. We’d just be talking to ourselves if it wasn’t for these brilliant people who’ve contributed to making Banter what it is today. Thanks to all of them, collectively and individually. Every successful long-running project needs a team and we’ve had some … <\/p>\n

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