{"id":2341,"date":"2020-07-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2021-08-06T17:33:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:33:06","slug":"full-recording-radio-carousel-dundalk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-radio-carousel-dundalk-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Full recording: Radio Carousel (Dundalk)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9578\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2341-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/19790103_Radio-Carousel_1133khz_265m_Mike-Ahern_Eric_Vaughan.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/19790103_Radio-Carousel_1133khz_265m_Mike-Ahern_Eric_Vaughan.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/19790103_Radio-Carousel_1133khz_265m_Mike-Ahern_Eric_Vaughan.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\/07\/19790103_Radio-Carousel_1133khz_265m_Mike-Ahern_Eric_Vaughan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=2341-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/19790103_Radio-Carousel_1133khz_265m_Mike-Ahern_Eric_Vaughan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19790103_Radio-Carousel_1133khz_265m_Mike-Ahern_Eric_Vaughan.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Carousel-2-Mike-1024x691.jpeg\" alt=\"Full recording: Radio Carousel (Dundalk)\" class=\"wp-image-2311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Carousel-2-Mike-1024x691.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Carousel-2-Mike-300x202.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Carousel-2-Mike-768x518.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Carousel-2-Mike-1536x1037.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Carousel-2-Mike-2048x1382.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Mike Ahern (aka Richard McCullen) in the new Carousel studio in Dundalk Shopping Centre (photo courtesy of Ian Biggar). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is another early recording from Radio Carousel made in Dundalk itself on 3<sup>rd<\/sup> January 1979 from 1330-1403. Mike Ahern (aka Richard McCullen) is finishing his lunchtime programme and hands over to Eric Vaughan (aka Eric Griffin) at 2pm. The station was announcing 265 metres (1134 kHz) at this time and had moved to a better studio in Dundalk Shopping Centre. There are adverts for the shopping centre voiced by Mike Ahern himself, an ad for a business in Warrenpoint in Co. Down and a request from a listener in Drumiskin south of Dundalk, giving a sense of Carousel&#8217;s core coverage area at the time. Both Mike and Eric worked in Carousel and Boyneside during the pirate era and continued in licensed stations afterwards as Richard McCullen (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmfm.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LMFM<\/a>) and Eric Griffin (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c103.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">C103<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tape is a bit wobbly in places but has withstood the passage of time relatively well and the signal is strong having been recorded locally. The recording was made by Kieran Murray and was donated to us by Ian Biggar.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another early recording from Radio Carousel made in Dundalk itself on 3rd January 1979 from 1330-1403. Mike Ahern (aka Richard McCullen) is finishing his lunchtime programme and hands over to Eric Vaughan (aka Eric Griffin) at 2pm. The station was announcing 265 metres (1134 kHz) at this time and had moved to a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-radio-carousel-dundalk-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Full recording: Radio Carousel (Dundalk)&#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":[491,376,44,154,116,117],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-491","tag-eric-vaughan","tag-lmfm","tag-louth","tag-radio-carousel","tag-richard-mccullen"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Full recording: Radio Carousel (Dundalk) - 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-carousel-dundalk-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Full recording: Radio Carousel (Dundalk) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is another early recording from Radio Carousel made in Dundalk itself on 3rd January 1979 from 1330-1403. 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