{"id":11145,"date":"2025-11-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=11145"},"modified":"2025-11-02T14:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:37:50","slug":"early-cork-series-lunchtime-on-radio-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/early-cork-series-lunchtime-on-radio-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Cork series: Lunchtime Special on Radio City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1305\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11145-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19810309_R_City_Cork_Pete_Andrews_LOD.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19810309_R_City_Cork_Pete_Andrews_LOD.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19810309_R_City_Cork_Pete_Andrews_LOD.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\/11\/19810309_R_City_Cork_Pete_Andrews_LOD.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=11145-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19810309_R_City_Cork_Pete_Andrews_LOD.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19810309_R_City_Cork_Pete_Andrews_LOD.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"979\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00000000_Pete_Lilian_LOD-1024x979.jpg\" alt=\"Early Cork series: Lunchtime Special on Radio City\" class=\"wp-image-10831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00000000_Pete_Lilian_LOD-1024x979.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00000000_Pete_Lilian_LOD-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00000000_Pete_Lilian_LOD-768x734.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00000000_Pete_Lilian_LOD-rotated.jpg 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pete Andrews in studio with number one fan Lilian McCarthy (O&#8217;Donoghue) (courtesy of Lilian). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This recording of early Cork pirate features popular DJ Pete Andrews (O\u2019Neill) with his <em>Lunchtime Special<\/em> show from 1981. Pete plays a mixture of current hits and oldies, including a new Golden Year feature. News headlines are read by Mark and there are adverts for businesses around Cork City. Pete refers to 95.5 FM but there is no mention of Radio City being on AM at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording was made from 95.5 FM on 9<sup>th<\/sup> March 1981 between 1159-1244 and is courtesy of Lilian O\u2019Donoghue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recording of early Cork pirate features popular DJ Pete Andrews (O\u2019Neill) with his Lunchtime Special show from 1981. Pete plays a mixture of current hits and oldies, including a new Golden Year feature. News headlines are read by Mark and there are adverts for businesses around Cork City. Pete refers to 95.5 FM but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/early-cork-series-lunchtime-on-radio-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early Cork series: Lunchtime Special on Radio City&#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":[486,151,550,555,777],"class_list":["post-11145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-486","tag-cork","tag-early-cork-series","tag-pete-oneill","tag-radio-city-cork"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Early Cork series: Lunchtime Special on Radio City - 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\/early-cork-series-lunchtime-on-radio-city\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Early Cork series: Lunchtime Special on Radio City - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This recording of early Cork pirate features popular DJ Pete Andrews (O\u2019Neill) with his Lunchtime Special show from 1981. 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