{"id":11649,"date":"2026-08-31T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=11649"},"modified":"2026-08-23T12:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:16:41","slug":"more-1980-dublin-radio-including-radio-257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/more-1980-dublin-radio-including-radio-257\/","title":{"rendered":"More 1980 Dublin radio including Radio 257"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4885\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11649-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Tipler-1980-Tape-2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Tipler-1980-Tape-2.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Tipler-1980-Tape-2.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\/2026\/08\/Tipler-1980-Tape-2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=11649-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Tipler-1980-Tape-2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Tipler-1980-Tape-2.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_9795-1024x719.jpg\" alt=\"More 1980 Dublin radio including Radio 257\" class=\"wp-image-3820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_9795-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_9795-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_9795-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_9795-1536x1079.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_9795-2048x1438.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Crofton Airport Hotel where Radio 257 was located (courtesy Noel Hiney). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is another recording made by English anoraks Leon Tipler in summer 1980 during one of his frequent visits to Dublin to document the Irish pirate radio scene. From AM, it includes clips of Radio City from Capel Street in the city centre. Logs from that year mention Radio City slightly off channel on 1164 kHz. The adverts for businesses in the Capel Street area are voiced by the late Tony Allan. There are also snippets of Southside Radio on 999 kHz, Big D on 1116 kHz and Radio Dublin on 1188 kHz with plenty of distortion. From FM, we heard adverts and news from RT\u00c9 Radio 1 followed by the start of the <em>Gay Byrne Show<\/em> and part of the Ronan Collins show on Radio 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recording concludes with a longer clip of Jason Maine on the Radio 257 drivetime show, including a holiday giveaway to the Isle of Man and plenty of adverts. 257 news at 1700 is sponsored by the <em>Weekend Star<\/em> newspaper. The tape was made on 29<sup>th<\/sup> July 1980 and is from the Leon Tipler Collection, donated to us by Steve England. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another recording made by English anoraks Leon Tipler in summer 1980 during one of his frequent visits to Dublin to document the Irish pirate radio scene. From AM, it includes clips of Radio City from Capel Street in the city centre. Logs from that year mention Radio City slightly off channel on 1164 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/more-1980-dublin-radio-including-radio-257\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More 1980 Dublin radio including Radio 257&#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":[15,254],"tags":[490,46,35,153,169,201,342,222,25,9,193,389,195],"class_list":["post-11649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","category-bandscans","tag-490","tag-am","tag-big-d","tag-dublin","tag-gay-byrne","tag-jason-maine","tag-leon-tipler","tag-radio-257","tag-radio-city-dublin","tag-radio-dublin","tag-ronan-collins","tag-rte-radio-1","tag-rte-radio-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>More 1980 Dublin radio including Radio 257 - 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\/more-1980-dublin-radio-including-radio-257\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More 1980 Dublin radio including Radio 257 - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is another recording made by English anoraks Leon Tipler in summer 1980 during one of his frequent visits to Dublin to document the Irish pirate radio scene. 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