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WLS broadcast from Galway City between March 1985 and June 1987. It was set up by Steve Marshall, Keith York (RIP) and Don Stevens after they left Atlantic Sound, another Galway station that they took over in mid-1984. WLS established a professional and slick sound and quickly became the city’s leading pirate station, but it closed suddenly in suspicious circumstances after just over two years. WLS was soon replaced by another pirate, Coast 103, which was set up by Marshall and York and continued to broadcast until the end of 1988.
This airchecked recording of WLS was made by Kieran Murray from 101 FM in the early hours of a Saturday morning sometime in May 1985 and is from the Anoraks Ireland Collection. The DJ is unidentified.