{"id":11232,"date":"2025-12-25T06:07:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=11232"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:17:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:17:42","slug":"early-cork-series-christmas-1980-on-radio-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/early-cork-series-christmas-1980-on-radio-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Cork series: Christmas 1980 on Radio City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5043\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11232-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/19801225_R_City_Cork_Carl_John_Mariner_Eric_Pete_Susan_LOD.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/19801225_R_City_Cork_Carl_John_Mariner_Eric_Pete_Susan_LOD.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/19801225_R_City_Cork_Carl_John_Mariner_Eric_Pete_Susan_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\/12\/19801225_R_City_Cork_Carl_John_Mariner_Eric_Pete_Susan_LOD.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=11232-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/19801225_R_City_Cork_Carl_John_Mariner_Eric_Pete_Susan_LOD.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19801225_R_City_Cork_Carl_John_Mariner_Eric_Pete_Susan_LOD.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"934\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00000000_Eric_Hansen_Alan_Reid_LOD-1024x934.jpg\" alt=\"Early Cork series: Christmas 1980 on Radio City\" class=\"wp-image-10817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00000000_Eric_Hansen_Alan_Reid_LOD-1024x934.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00000000_Eric_Hansen_Alan_Reid_LOD-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00000000_Eric_Hansen_Alan_Reid_LOD-768x700.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00000000_Eric_Hansen_Alan_Reid_LOD-rotated.jpg 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">L-R: Eric Hansen (John Creedon) and Alan Reid (Henry Condon, RIP) at Radio City (courtesy Lilian O&#8217;Donoghue). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Cork pirate Radio City celebrated its first Christmas on air in 1980, 4 months after going on the air. This recording from that day features a lively show with Carl Johnson (Dan Noonan) who is joined in studio by John Mariner and Eric Hansen (John Creedon, now of RT\u00c9). There are plenty of Christmas greetings from listeners, including live callers, some of whom are related to the DJs. Karl and the others are followed by <em>Hospital Radio Special<\/em> with Pete Andrews (O\u2019Neill) and Susan James (O\u2019Neill), who are joined later by Mike Cagney. The programme includes Christmas music, more requests and pre-recorded interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"795\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/19800000_Susan_James_1_LOD-1024x795.jpg\" alt=\"Early Cork series: Christmas 1980 on Radio City\" class=\"wp-image-11141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/19800000_Susan_James_1_LOD-1024x795.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/19800000_Susan_James_1_LOD-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/19800000_Susan_James_1_LOD-768x596.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/19800000_Susan_James_1_LOD.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Susan James (O&#8217;Connor) at Radio City in 1980 (courtesy Lilian O&#8217;Donoghue). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The airchecked recording was made from 95.7 FM between approximately 1200-1500 on 25<sup>th<\/sup> December 1980. Radio City also broadcast on 1512 kHz AM, announcing 199 metres. Thanks to Lilian O\u2019Donoghue for the donation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cork pirate Radio City celebrated its first Christmas on air in 1980, 4 months after going on the air. This recording from that day features a lively show with Carl Johnson (Dan Noonan) who is joined in studio by John Mariner and Eric Hansen (John Creedon, now of RT\u00c9). There are plenty of Christmas &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/early-cork-series-christmas-1980-on-radio-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early Cork series: Christmas 1980 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":[15],"tags":[490,680,151,778,799,798,797,796,777,559],"class_list":["post-11232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","tag-490","tag-christmas-day","tag-cork","tag-dan-noonan","tag-eric-hansen","tag-john-creedon-john-blake","tag-john-mariner","tag-mike-cagney","tag-radio-city-cork","tag-susan-james"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Early Cork series: Christmas 1980 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-christmas-1980-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: Christmas 1980 on Radio City - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Cork pirate Radio City celebrated its first Christmas on air in 1980, 4 months after going on the air. 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