near90fm is Dublin North East Community Communications Cooperative's radio platform. The Coop was formed in 1982 and it is registered with the REgistrar of Friedly societies. It is a not-for-profit democratic organisation open to all individuals and community organisations in the northside of Dublin. Apart from the radio station, the Coop has also etablished  neartv productions and near  on line (ICT)

This is our mission statement

• Provide an alternative to mainstream media, a voice for those underrepresented or excluded, through training and access to distribution facilities across all media platforms.
• Serve our community through distinctive programming, which honestly informs, and contributes to the entertainment, education and development of our community
• Foster democracy and pluralism, global justice, media literacy and civil society appropriation of all media,
• Work for social change, by promoting dialogue, encouraging artistic expression, offering alternative worldviews, and by acting as a forum for people who typically lack media access.
• Defend the environment and human rights, particularly the right to communicate.
• Ensure that we are editorially independent, accountable, transparent and participatory, respect the role of volunteers and the rights of workers and are linked to national and international media networks.
• Support community building and values, interculturalism, and linguistic diversity.
• Encourage exchange of diverse ideas, creativity, local traditions and collective actions
• Resist discrimination, exclusion, violence and media enclosure.
• Promote the development and use of new technologies and new communication and information services which lead to cultural democratisation.
• Recognise The power of sound, image, and the spoken word to engage the mind and nurture the human spirit.

near90fm secured a licence in 1995, and it now broadcast 24 hours per day throughout 365 days per year. We invite individuals and groups to avail of training and to become volunteers. The station will continue to promote and vedelop its services by encouraging groups to use community media as a tool in their developmental work, and by reflecting the issues, events and stories important in the local area.