Diarmuid Lyng

Diarmuid Lyng's became known for his love of language and country  following the RTE broadcast of Gizzy: The Geansaí.  In it, he talked of how aversion tranformed to grá after a three day immersion in the West Kerry Gaeltacht in his twenties. Diarmuid since moved to that Gaeltacht and now teaches aireachas 'mindfulness' to visiting students. He worked as a facilitator with the SAOR foundation helping young people discover their worth and potential.  He is a former captain of the Wexford hurling team and works as a sports analyst for TG4, Newstalk and other media.  He gives hurling Master Classes ó am go chéile, preferring the beach to the pitch. He is an outspoken critic of the co-opting of culture by technology and founder of the initiative facebook free february. He is also one of the founders of GAA activist group Gaelic Voices for Change, fundraising  and lobbying for the homeless.

Siobhán de Paor

Siobhán de Paor is a performance artist, poet, writer and environment and social justice campaigner.   For the past three years she has been holding ceremony and ritual on the important days of the Celtic calendar at various sacred sites in Corca Dhuibhne. She also hosts Moon Mnaibh Corca Dhuibne, a monthly women's circles on full moon.  Although originally from the Ring Gaeltacht in Waterford, it wasn't until coming to West Kerry that she began to use Irish as a creative medium.  She has performed spoken word as Gaeilge in festivals and venues in Cork, Kerry, Clare, Dublin and Galway. She was a newspaper journalist in Ireland and Australia until taking a trip to Nepal in 2014 for a series investigating women's issues. There she stayed learning of meditation, yoga, auryvedia and other alternative philosophies for three years.  

Cearbhuil Ní Fhionnghusa

Cearbhuil Ni Fhionnghusa is wild food forager and makes wild plant cosmetics and herbal remedies from her cottage in the Burren that she shares with her two wild children.  She has given workshops on these skills over the past 7 years motivated and has inspired many to integrate wild food and time in the wild into their daily lives. Her work was featured on RTE's Garraí Glas. 

Her latest undertaking is the Burren Wilderness Project; a vision for 3 and a half acres of the unique limestone plateau which includes foraging and plant medicine workshops as Gaeilge.  She lived with indigenous minorities in Bolivia and Colombia for five years where she learned of local medicines. She also lived and worked as a teacher and gardener in the Kerry and Connemara Gaeltachts.  Cearbhúil is always glad to return. She has a degree in Irish from the University of Limerick and listens to RnG everyday! She is mad for trad and has recently taken up learning the tinwhistle. 

Timmy Creed

Timmy Creed is an actor, theatre-maker and yoga teacher from Cork.

He is the current artist-in- residence on Cape Clear Island teaching yoga to the local community while developing a new performance piece on finding himself through Irish. It is inspired by that belief that we can derive vitality from speaking our native tongue. He has worked on stage and on screen in Ireland for the past 8 years both in English and Irish. His debut play SPLICED based on 21 years playing in the GAA and his subsequent fallout from the game has been highly acclaimed by critics and audiences across the country.

Timmy swapped the hurley for the yoga mat, to pursue a more creative spiritual life and discovered Kundalini Yoga, a body, mind and spirit practice that has given him the tools to withstand the pressures of the modern age and deepen his experience of himself and Life.