Incoming! Listen to an excerpt from 25.5 Hours on Whiddy Island, a new audio essay broadcasting this Easter Sunday 5th April on Bere Island community Radio https://www.bereisland.net/radio/ 

A collaboration between Rachel Donnelly and Eavan Aiken (@_irrealis_mood_), commissioned by @cpwestcorkislands as part of their Ocean and Environment initiative.

Featuring the voices of: Rachel Donnelly, Tony Fry, Robert Collins (@rob_makes_things), James Gibson, Shane Finan, Aisling Phelan (@aisling_phelan) and Viva Dean (@vivadean).

This audio essay is a response to the first AGON gathering which took place on the island in summer 2025, exploring ideas around the design of digital infrastructures, agency, the right to repair, civic spaces and speculative futures. Whiddy’s complex history framed these discussions – the site of a strategic military base for the British in the early 1800s, and in the 1970s the site of a tragedy when an oil tanker exploded and cost 50 lives. The still-active oil refinery lies sunk into the land on the west end of the island and has experienced several changes in multinational ownership in recent years, while the military batteries lie abandoned.

AGON was hosted by Robert Collins and Paul O’Neil and featured contributions from Shane Finan and Loes Damhof,, Seán Finnan, Cliona Harmey, Micheál O’Connell and Aisling Phelan.