{"id":1813,"date":"2020-06-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2021-08-06T20:03:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T19:03:15","slug":"aircheck-twiggs-fm-galway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/aircheck-twiggs-fm-galway\/","title":{"rendered":"Aircheck: Twiggs FM (Galway)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7217\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1813-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1987_nd_Twiggs_FM_Ciaran_Wilson-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1987_nd_Twiggs_FM_Ciaran_Wilson-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1987_nd_Twiggs_FM_Ciaran_Wilson-online-audio-converter.com_.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\/06\/1987_nd_Twiggs_FM_Ciaran_Wilson-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=1813-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1987_nd_Twiggs_FM_Ciaran_Wilson-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"1987_nd_Twiggs_FM_Ciaran_Wilson-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Twiggs-flyer-1-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"Aircheck: Twiggs FM (Galway)\" class=\"wp-image-1815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Twiggs-flyer-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Twiggs-flyer-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Twiggs-flyer-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Twiggs-flyer-1-1536x863.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Twiggs-flyer-1-2048x1151.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Twiggs FM flyer courtesy of Ian Biggar\/DX Archive. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Twiggs FM was a short-lived radio station broadcasting from the Galway suburb of Salthill for about six months in 1987 and 1988. It was set up in August 1987 in the Eglinton Hotel on Salthill promenade, which had been leased by two returned emigrant Galway businessmen. According to an Anoraks UK <em>Weekly Report<\/em> from October 1987, Mike Richardson, formerly of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/tags\/big-l\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big L Radio<\/a> in Limerick and Horizon Radio in Killorglin, Co. Kerry, was also involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hotel was a busy entertainment venue with a large 1,500-capacity nightclub called Twiggs and a popular student venue in the basement. The businessmen were persuaded by local man Shane Martin, who was a DJ at the club and had worked in other Galway pirates, to create a professional radio station to advertise their business interests as well as other services. Twiggs FM was set up by Martin and Dublin man Alan Russell, who was behind an earlier Galway station <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-atlantic-sound-galway\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atlantic Sound<\/a>, and sound engineer Roland Burke (RIP) was also hired from Dublin. A professional studio was installed on the first floor overlooking Galway Bay. The station regularly broadcast gigs from the nightclub and DJs were paid for radio shift work and topped up their income with gigs at the Twiggs venue and other clubs run by the owners. Presenters included Roland Burke, Alan Russell, Ciaran Wilson (Brannelly), Robert Ashley, Shane Martin and Daragh Murphy as well as student DJs and guest DJs from Dublin. In January 1988 it was taken over by Mike Richardson and renamed West Coast Radio but the station closed by March because of the backers\u2019 impatience with poor advertising revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Eglinton-Hotel-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Aircheck: Twiggs FM (Galway)\" class=\"wp-image-1839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Eglinton-Hotel-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Eglinton-Hotel-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Eglinton-Hotel-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Eglinton-Hotel-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Eglinton-Hotel-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>A current view of the former Eglinton Hotel in Salthill, now a direct provision centre (photo by John Walsh). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Twiggs FM broadcast on 98.5 from Salthill and later added an additional relay on 100.1 in the city. This recording is an undated aircheck of two shows by Ciaran Wilson (Brannelly) in the autumn\/winter of 1987. The first is from a Thursday at about 1645 and the second from Friday at 1515. There was a definite student vibe to the station, with notices from the Law Society at University College Galway (now the National University of Ireland, Galway) and reference to a programme by the Regional Technical College (now Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology). There&#8217;s also a competition to win a bale of briquettes so the Galway winter must have been approaching! Thanks to Ciaran for this recording and additional background information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twiggs FM was a short-lived radio station broadcasting from the Galway suburb of Salthill for about six months in 1987 and 1988. It was set up in August 1987 in the Eglinton Hotel on Salthill promenade, which had been leased by two returned emigrant Galway businessmen. 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