Open Free Radio Archive
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Don Harris worked on many of the Dublin AM pirates like ARD and Southside Radio before joining South Coast Radio In Cork. He went on to form the first independent radio sales bureau in Ireland which straddled the pirate era and the legal local radio era.
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On the 30th anniversary of the pirate radio closedowns, Ken O’Sullivan of the Louth local station LMFM talked to Brian Greene about that fateful day and the background to the Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive. This was first broadcast at 1820 on 31st December 2018.
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This is a chat between Brian and John from 31st December 2018 about the Pirate.ie project over the previous six months. On this the 30th anniversary of the closedowns, Brian and John look back at the era prior to 1988 and speculate about radio’s future.
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Via AM radio off air on Soundcloud: Energy 103, Q102 and Sunshine 101 in 1986.
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Walter Hegarty talks to Ralph McGarry about his memories of visiting Wonderland Radio/Tallaght Community Radio as a teenager in the 1980s. Ralph then describes how he worked in the 1990s pirates before becoming involved in the licensed community station Tallaght FM which went on the air in 1999.