{"id":11172,"date":"2025-12-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=11172"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:17:29","slug":"early-cork-series-lunchtime-on-radio-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/early-cork-series-lunchtime-on-radio-city-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Cork series: Lunchtime on Radio City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2846\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11172-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19810323_R_City_Cork_Pete_Andrews_LOD.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19810323_R_City_Cork_Pete_Andrews_LOD.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19810323_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\/19810323_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=11172-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19810323_R_City_Cork_Pete_Andrews_LOD.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19810323_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=\"760\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19800000_Pete_Andrews_LOD-1024x760.jpg\" alt=\"Early Cork series: Lunchtime on Radio City\" class=\"wp-image-11178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19800000_Pete_Andrews_LOD-1024x760.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19800000_Pete_Andrews_LOD-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19800000_Pete_Andrews_LOD-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19800000_Pete_Andrews_LOD.jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pete Andrews (O&#8217;Neill) at Radio City in 1980 (courtesy Lilian O&#8217;Donoghue). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Pete Andrews (O\u2019Neill) was a familiar voice on Cork pirate radio, and was heard on the early stations of the late 1970s before setting up Radio City in 1980 with Dan Noonan. Here he is on the <em>Lunchtime Special<\/em> from spring 1981 with a mixture of chart, classics and a bit of country. Features include the Golden Year, for sale slot, featured album, record of the week, weather forecast and the Top 10 from the Radio City Top 50. Many of the adverts are voiced by Pete, who also reads news headlines on the hour. Such was the multi-tasking of pirate radio!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording was made from 95.7 FM between 1202-1403 on 23<sup>rd<\/sup> March 1981 and is courtesy of Lilian O\u2019Donoghue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Andrews (O\u2019Neill) was a familiar voice on Cork pirate radio, and was heard on the early stations of the late 1970s before setting up Radio City in 1980 with Dan Noonan. Here he is on the Lunchtime Special from spring 1981 with a mixture of chart, classics and a bit of country. Features include &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/early-cork-series-lunchtime-on-radio-city-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early Cork series: Lunchtime 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-11172","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 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-2\/\" \/>\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 on Radio City - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pete Andrews (O\u2019Neill) was a familiar voice on Cork pirate radio, and was heard on the early stations of the late 1970s before setting up Radio City in 1980 with Dan Noonan. 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