{"id":10188,"date":"2024-10-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=10188"},"modified":"2025-10-25T13:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:53:57","slug":"radio-caroline-dublin-october-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/radio-caroline-dublin-october-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Caroline Dublin on October bank holiday 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5649\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10188-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/19901029_R_Caroline_Dublin_Bobby_Gibbson_94fm_2223-2303_BG.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/19901029_R_Caroline_Dublin_Bobby_Gibbson_94fm_2223-2303_BG.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/19901029_R_Caroline_Dublin_Bobby_Gibbson_94fm_2223-2303_BG.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/19901029_R_Caroline_Dublin_Bobby_Gibbson_94fm_2223-2303_BG.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=10188-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/19901029_R_Caroline_Dublin_Bobby_Gibbson_94fm_2223-2303_BG.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19901029_R_Caroline_Dublin_Bobby_Gibbson_94fm_2223-2303_BG.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"514\" height=\"734\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Radio-Caroline-Dublin-1991.jpg\" alt=\"Radio Caroline Dublin on October bank holiday 1990\" class=\"wp-image-6844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Radio-Caroline-Dublin-1991.jpg 514w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Radio-Caroline-Dublin-1991-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Radio Caroline flyer from 1992 (courtesy Brian Greene)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Radio Caroline Dublin was one of the longest-running pirates in the capital in the post-1989 period, when new legisation was supposed to silence the unlicensed operators. Based in Sutton in northeast Dublin, it broadcast on a part-time basis from 1989-1992 and then introduced a full schedule, operating every evening and all day at weekends. Reception was local at the start but eventually a transmitter site in the Dublin mountains gave good coverage of the city. The station did not take advertising but instead generated income from DJ subscriptions and occasional fundraisers. Radio Caroline Dublin was involved in an unsuccessful application for a community radio licence in 1996 and continued broadcasting until 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its first two years, Radio Caroline broadcast only on bank holiday Mondays, so about six times a year. The same people were also behind other occasional stations in the Dublin 13 area such as Suburban Radio and ARD. This recording is of Radio Caroline on the October bank holiday Monday 1990 and features one of the station founders Bobby Gibbson (aka Brian Greene of Pirate.ie). He comments on the forthcoming Irish presidential election, reminisces on the 1990 World Cup and laments the state of broadcasting in Ireland. The broadcast ends with the original &#8216;love and good music&#8217; jingle of the offshore Radio Caroline and then the TX is switched off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording is from the Pirate.ie collection and was made from 94 FM from 2203-2303 on 29<sup>th<\/sup> October 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Caroline Dublin was one of the longest-running pirates in the capital in the post-1989 period, when new legisation was supposed to silence the unlicensed operators. Based in Sutton in northeast Dublin, it broadcast on a part-time basis from 1989-1992 and then introduced a full schedule, operating every evening and all day at weekends. Reception &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/radio-caroline-dublin-october-1990\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Radio Caroline Dublin on October bank holiday 1990&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[630,43,153,22,788,604],"class_list":["post-10188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-630","tag-brian-greene","tag-dublin","tag-hobby-station","tag-october-bank-holiday","tag-radio-caroline-dublin-1990s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Radio Caroline Dublin on October bank holiday 1990 - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/radio-caroline-dublin-october-1990\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Radio Caroline Dublin on October bank holiday 1990 - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Radio Caroline Dublin was one of the longest-running pirates in the capital in the post-1989 period, when new legisation was supposed to silence the unlicensed operators. 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