{"id":10652,"date":"2025-04-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=10652"},"modified":"2025-02-19T17:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:10:36","slug":"sunday-evening-on-westside-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/sunday-evening-on-westside-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday evening on Westside Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_466\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10652-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8134AI-Westside-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8134AI-Westside-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8134AI-Westside-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\/8134AI-Westside-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=10652-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8134AI-Westside-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"8134AI-Westside-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"726\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Westside-ad-726x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Sunday evening on Westside Radio\" class=\"wp-image-1348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Westside-ad-726x1024.jpeg 726w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Westside-ad-213x300.jpeg 213w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Westside-ad-768x1084.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Westside-ad-1088x1536.jpeg 1088w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Westside-ad-1451x2048.jpeg 1451w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Westside-ad-scaled.jpeg 1814w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Westside Radio advert in Irish Radio News in 1983 when the station had big plans (courtesy Ian Biggar). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Westside Radio was a small station broadcasting to Dublin in 1982 and 1983. It had its origins in Double R Radio in Inchicore and moved around different premises in Dublin, later broadcasting from a site in Mulhuddart in the west of the city. Westside was one of a small number of pirates to stay on air following the infamous raids of May 1983 but did not last for long as it ran into trouble due to claims of interference, a common charge levelled against the pirates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This short recording of Westside Radio was made on a Sunday evening in early summer 1982. Up first is Chris Byrne and he is followed by DJ Lynne. Both DJs read out a letter from the Irish Wheelchair Association thanking Westside for promoting them during a recent sponsored run in the Phoenix Park. Audio quality is fair to poor due to an over-modulated signal and cassette degradation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The airchecked recording was made by Kieran Murray from around 2000 on 16<sup>th<\/sup> May 1982 from 1035 kHz, announcing 290 metres and is from the Anoraks Ireland Collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westside Radio was a small station broadcasting to Dublin in 1982 and 1983. It had its origins in Double R Radio in Inchicore and moved around different premises in Dublin, later broadcasting from a site in Mulhuddart in the west of the city. Westside was one of a small number of pirates to stay on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/sunday-evening-on-westside-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday evening on Westside Radio&#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":[498,46,564,153,284],"class_list":["post-10652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","tag-498","tag-am","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-dublin","tag-westside-radio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sunday evening on Westside Radio - 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\/sunday-evening-on-westside-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sunday evening on Westside Radio - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Westside Radio was a small station broadcasting to Dublin in 1982 and 1983. 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