{"id":1684,"date":"2020-05-29T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:13:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:13:51","slug":"full-recording-radio-sligo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-radio-sligo\/","title":{"rendered":"Border series: Sunday shows on Radio Sligo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7569\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1684-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/19810816-1120-1130-RadioSligo_MervynHamilton-1130-1200-CeiliHouse-1200-1230-CrazyCorner-1230-1308-DavidHamilton-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/19810816-1120-1130-RadioSligo_MervynHamilton-1130-1200-CeiliHouse-1200-1230-CrazyCorner-1230-1308-DavidHamilton-1.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/19810816-1120-1130-RadioSligo_MervynHamilton-1130-1200-CeiliHouse-1200-1230-CrazyCorner-1230-1308-DavidHamilton-1.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\/19810816-1120-1130-RadioSligo_MervynHamilton-1130-1200-CeiliHouse-1200-1230-CrazyCorner-1230-1308-DavidHamilton-1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=1684-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/19810816-1120-1130-RadioSligo_MervynHamilton-1130-1200-CeiliHouse-1200-1230-CrazyCorner-1230-1308-DavidHamilton-1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19810816-1120-1130-RadioSligo_MervynHamilton-1130-1200-CeiliHouse-1200-1230-CrazyCorner-1230-1308-DavidHamilton-1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"874\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Radio-Sligo-logo-1024x874.jpeg\" alt=\"Border series: Sunday shows on Radio Sligo\" class=\"wp-image-1681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Radio-Sligo-logo-1024x874.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Radio-Sligo-logo-300x256.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Radio-Sligo-logo-768x655.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Radio-Sligo-logo-1536x1310.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Radio-Sligo-logo-2048x1747.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Radio Sligo t-shirt courtesy of Ian Biggar\/DX Archive. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This is a rare recording of Radio Sligo from 1981, made during one of DX Archive&#8217;s tours of Ireland. It is partially airchecked, but gives a great sense of the variety of Sunday programming spanning country, traditional Irish and heavy metal. Audio levels are up and down and there are plenty of technical glitches including a break in transmission after which the presenter says that the problem was fixed with a screwdriver! The recording was made from 1260 kHz (237 metres) on the 16th of August 1981 and is courtesy of Ian Biggar.   A station ident refers to 250 metres (1197 kHz) so Radio Sligo must have been on that frequency previously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The line-up on this recording is Mervyn Hamiton from 1120-1130, C\u00e9il\u00ed House from 1130-1200, a comedy show called Crazy Corner presented by Mike Marchini from 1200-1230 and a mixed show including heavy metal, country and pop with David Hamilton from 1230-1308. There&#8217;s also a message from Paul Martell about the station&#8217;s forthcoming marathon in aid of the Irish Wheelchair Association, an early example of the pirates supporting <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/aircheck-pirates-co-operate-in-charity-marathon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">charitable causes<\/a>. It&#8217;s not clear how long this version of Radio Sligo lasted but in 1984 the <em>Sligo Champion<\/em> reported on a court case which heard that a former DJ had allegedly wrecked the station, causing \u00a31,500 worth of damage. Another station, Radio Northwest called itself Radio Sligo on occasion in late 1984 and 1985 but was a separate outfit. In 1987 and 1988 Anoraks Ireland lists a Sligo Radio and a Westside Radio on FM only in Sligo but these are not thought to be connected to the original Radio Sligo either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a unique recording of a little-known rural station showing how much variety there could be on Irish pirate radio. You can read more on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/dxarchive.com\/ireland_a_to_z_irish_pirates_radio_sligo.html\" target=\"_blank\">DX Archive<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a rare recording of Radio Sligo from 1981, made during one of DX Archive&#8217;s tours of Ireland. It is partially airchecked, but gives a great sense of the variety of Sunday programming spanning country, traditional Irish and heavy metal. Audio levels are up and down and there are plenty of technical glitches including &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-radio-sligo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Border series: Sunday shows on Radio Sligo&#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":[15,152],"tags":[486,46,260,314,315],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","category-full-recordings","tag-486","tag-am","tag-border","tag-radio-sligo-81-84","tag-sligo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Border series: Sunday shows on Radio Sligo - 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\/full-recording-radio-sligo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Border series: Sunday shows on Radio Sligo - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is a rare recording of Radio Sligo from 1981, made during one of DX Archive&#8217;s tours of Ireland. 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