A very successful CRAOL Féile 2010 was held  on the Weekend 29th and 30th May.  The host station Flirt FM in Galway had a very short lead in time for organising the event but did the movement proud.

The emphasis in the 16 workshops  was on getting across practical useful information, sharing experience between member stations and encouraging often lively participation and discussion. Many of the workshops were recorded and podcasts of these will be available through the CRAOL website in the coming weeks. 

Workshops included:

·         Campus Radio

·         Sound and Vision think tank

·         Creating Training Videos

·         Documentary Editing

·         Steps to social inclusion

·         Media literacy

·         interview and recording skills

·         Polishing your show

·         Creating a Womens network

·         Getting the most from the new CRAOL Website

·         Sports Coverage

·         Branding and Promoting  a community radio station on a budget

·         Jingles 101 and Jingles 2

·         Social networking

·         Current Affairs

·         Inter-cultural Issues for Community Radio

The social side of the weekend was informal and fun with Saturday night seeing Life FM from Cork being awarded the Trophy for  "Most Rock n'Roll Community Radio Station 2010"  following their rendition of  "Living on a Prayer" on the Guitar Hero Rock Band Video game - narrowly pipping Wired FM from Limerick.

The Féile was preceded on the Friday by an 2 part session Irish Language Workshop which fittingly  heard the first episode of the Craol Co-Production "Ni Neart go cur le Chéile", and an all day training event on Sound and Vision II which included a question and answer session with Ciaran Kissane of the BAI.  

The whole weekend was a triumph for the hosts Flirt FM, their dedicated staff and especially Paula and Louise.  Well done Flirt!