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Cá Bhfuil an Obair? WDAR Radio-96fm: Launches new radio series highlighting job opportunites in Irish interviewing STAR Translation. Tuesday 29th May on 96fm
Co. Dublin, Ireland — May 2012 — Cá Bhfuil an Obair?  is a four-part bi-lingual radio series exploring career possibilities available through the Irish language.

News Release
For Immediate Release
Friday – 25th May 2012
Produced and presented by 4th and 5th year students from gaelscoil Coláiste Chilliain, Clondalkin and St. Dominic’s Girls’ Secondary School, Ballyfermot, each half-hour programme will focus on a different area of work where the ability to use the Irish language is a major advantage.  The areas covered are; Translation; Education; Communications and Media; and promotion of the Irish language.  The series is aimed at students of Junior and Leaving Cert level.  Produced in association with West Dublin Access Radio, Cá Bhfuil an Obair? will be broadcast each morning at 10.30am from Tuesday 29th May to Friday June 1st.  To listen, tune in to 96fm or go online at http://www.wdar.ie
Program 1: Translation
10.30am Tues May 29th –
Our reporters visit STAR Translation Services, Dublin, to find out about life as a translator interviewing Damian Scattergood the companies managing director and language staff. http://www.star-ts.com

Listen to the interview podcast.

Program 2: Education
10.30am Wed May 30th –
Teachers from the reporters’ schools talk about teaching in both English and Irish speaking schools.

Program 3: Communications and Media
10.30am Thurs May 30th –
A visit to Stillwater Communications, Dublin, provides our reporters with an insight into how the Irish language thrives in the world of media
http://stillwater.ie/

Program 4: Promoting the Irish Language
10.30am Fri June 1st –
The Cá Bhfuil an Obair? team find out about the type of work opportunities available in promoting the Irish language as well as potential for careers in other areas using the Irish language.
“We are delighted to work with WDAR on this community project. Irish is still a thriving language and this series shows how the language is used in everyday life” said Damian Scattergood MD of STAR translation services.  “Irish is actually our 3rd more popular language to translate.”

You can find more details about the interview here >>> STAR Interview with WDAR RADIO Interview

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If you are twittering around Dublin last night you would have seen the #sockies hashtag trending. This is the hashtag for the Social Media Awards. As finalists, we attended the grand ceremony  last night at the Mansion House. We were up against OMG Jedward’s Dream Factory on TRTÉ, @Lokofotodotcom St Patrick’s Day and Captain Morgan – Dare the Captain!  for the Best PR Campaign.

So as you can guess the competition was tough. We lost against Jedward so it is not really losing, is it? No matter what the result was we were really delighted to hear “And the nominees are : STAR Translation and Jedward”

You could just about hear our name amongst the cheers for the nominees as they came up on the big screen.

This is our first time being a finalist in such an event so we simply enjoyed this moment sharing a few words and fun with the other nominees. It was great to meet our competitor, customers and partners on the same night.  We had fun chatting about blogging with Amanda from spiderworking.com, the event organizer Damien Mulley,  and the infamous Rick O’Shea and lots of others. We will be there next year!

See the photos of the event on our Facebook Page.