{"id":1482,"date":"2020-05-18T07:40:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T06:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2024-05-02T16:35:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T15:35:02","slug":"sunshine-radio-nova-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/sunshine-radio-nova-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine Radio reports Radio Nova raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9341\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1482-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/19830518_unident_Sunshine.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/19830518_unident_Sunshine.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/19830518_unident_Sunshine.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/19830518_unident_Sunshine.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=1482-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/19830518_unident_Sunshine.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19830518_unident_Sunshine.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"829\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine_raid5_0583-1024x829.jpg\" alt=\"Sunshine Radio reports Radio Nova raid\" class=\"wp-image-1532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine_raid5_0583-1024x829.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine_raid5_0583-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine_raid5_0583-768x622.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine_raid5_0583.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Robbie Robinson at the Portmarnock studios on the day of the raid (courtesy Gary Hogg &amp; Ian Biggar). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a recording of Sunshine Radio from the 18th of May 1983 from 1722-1738 recorded from 531 kHz AM. The presenter is Eugene Higgins. News headlines at 5.30 are read by Emer Dolan (Woodful) and refer to the Radio Nova raid that morning and plans by the opposition Fianna F\u00e1il party to press once again for legislation on local radio. The following morning Sunshine Radio <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/dxarchive.com\/raids_1983_sunshine_radio_raid.html\" target=\"_blank\">would itself be raided<\/a> and put off the air. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"806\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine_raid4_0583-806x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Sunshine Radio reports Radio Nova raid\" class=\"wp-image-1534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine_raid4_0583-806x1024.jpg 806w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine_raid4_0583-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine_raid4_0583-768x976.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine_raid4_0583.jpg 1053w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Sunshine engineer the late Peter Gibney works on a new AM transmitter after the main one is confiscated in the raid. Photo courtesy of Gary Hogg\/Ian Biggar. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording is from the Skywave Tapes Collection. Skywave Radio International broadcast a shortwave station in the 1980s from Baldoyle in northeast Dublin.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a recording of Sunshine Radio from the 18th of May 1983 from 1722-1738 recorded from 531 kHz AM. The presenter is Eugene Higgins. News headlines at 5.30 are read by Emer Dolan (Woodful) and refer to the Radio Nova raid that morning and plans by the opposition Fianna F\u00e1il party to press once &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/sunshine-radio-nova-raid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunshine Radio reports Radio Nova raid&#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":[709,501,171,46,153,545,47],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-18th-may-1983","tag-501","tag-1983-raids","tag-am","tag-dublin","tag-skywave-collection","tag-sunshine-radio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sunshine Radio reports Radio Nova raid - 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\/sunshine-radio-nova-raid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sunshine Radio reports Radio Nova raid - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is a recording of Sunshine Radio from the 18th of May 1983 from 1722-1738 recorded from 531 kHz AM. 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