Diarmuid Gavin
speaker
389 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Diarmuid Gavin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, I was lucky that that happened, but not self-critical, just that desire to paint.
So I was working in a shop called Mackey's Seeds of Mary Street, which I worked in for three years before I went to college and Live Aid was on.
And I couldn't wait to get home.
It was a Saturday afternoon and I was listening on headphones on the radio and U2 came out and they sang Bad.
And they were singing about an area close to where they grew up, the Seven Towers, the Ballymont Flats, the heroin...
I only won my head.
And years later, I was to go.
Years later, I went to.
So you two have had an extraordinary impression.
It could have been any of their songs since they won the fact that they expressed themselves in the way that they did in a kind of post-punk way initially.
And then the stadium, the Americana way, the stadium rock way, the German Berlin way.
And now reinventing it again.
But years later, I went to visit a school in Ballymun and I saw a gardening club there.
And that led me to start working with a group called Ballymun City Farm, this amazing group of people who realised that that part of the city has been always neglected, even since the...
You know, the development, taking the towers down.
And I know the potential of gardening and I know the potential of growing to affect and change how people feel about life.
Do we have a new series?
Oh, we're doing Garden Rescue across the water.
We're just about to start.
We have a new series on at the BBC at the moment called Gardening Together.
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