{"id":10535,"date":"2025-02-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=10535"},"modified":"2025-02-25T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T21:13:00","slug":"late-night-radio-leinster-shortly-before-stations-closedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/late-night-radio-leinster-shortly-before-stations-closedown\/","title":{"rendered":"Late night Radio Leinster shortly before station&#8217;s closedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5581\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10535-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8132AI-Leinster-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8132AI-Leinster-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8132AI-Leinster-192.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\/2025\/02\/8132AI-Leinster-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=10535-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8132AI-Leinster-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"8132AI-Leinster-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"927\" height=\"1261\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/19830501-SundayWorld.jpg\" alt=\"Late night Radio Leinster shortly before station&#039;s closedown\" class=\"wp-image-6388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/19830501-SundayWorld.jpg 927w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/19830501-SundayWorld-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/19830501-SundayWorld-753x1024.jpg 753w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/19830501-SundayWorld-768x1045.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Radio Leinster advert a few weeks before it closed down (Anoraks Ireland Collection). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Radio Leinster was a specialist and middle-of-the-road station offering an alternative to Dublin listeners accustomed to the diet of chart music on many pirates. Launching on 29<sup>th<\/sup> April 1981 on 738 kHz, announcing 406 metres, it liked to claim that it wooed listeners from RT\u00c9 Radio 1 rather than Radio 2. Despite making inroads in the Dublin radio market over its two years on air, Radio Leinster became collateral damage in the raids on large pirate stations, closing down suddenly on May 19<sup>th<\/sup> 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This tape was made a few days before the closedown and features the <em>Late on Leinster<\/em> show presented by Gerry Wilson. There are plenty of requests, reflecting the desire for live late-night radio, now sadly a thing of the past. Adverts include the <em>Sunday World<\/em> newspaper, a staple on all commercial pirate stations during the 1980s. The airchecked recording was made on Saturday night\/Sunday morning 14<sup>th<\/sup> and 15<sup>th<\/sup> May between 2230 and 0130 from 93 FM. It is from the Anoraks Ireland Collection.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Leinster was a specialist and middle-of-the-road station offering an alternative to Dublin listeners accustomed to the diet of chart music on many pirates. Launching on 29th April 1981 on 738 kHz, announcing 406 metres, it liked to claim that it wooed listeners from RT\u00c9 Radio 1 rather than Radio 2. Despite making inroads in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/late-night-radio-leinster-shortly-before-stations-closedown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Late night Radio Leinster shortly before station&#8217;s closedown&#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":[15],"tags":[501,564,153,753,37],"class_list":["post-10535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","tag-501","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-dublin","tag-gerry-wilson","tag-radio-leinster"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Late night Radio Leinster shortly before station&#039;s closedown - 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\/late-night-radio-leinster-shortly-before-stations-closedown\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Late night Radio Leinster shortly before station&#039;s closedown - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Radio Leinster was a specialist and middle-of-the-road station offering an alternative to Dublin listeners accustomed to the diet of chart music on many pirates. 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