{"id":2347,"date":"2020-07-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2021-08-07T14:56:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T13:56:25","slug":"full-recording-radio-carousel-dundalk-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-radio-carousel-dundalk-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Full recording: Radio Carousel (Dundalk)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6967\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2347-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/19830520-1645-1728-FrankMitchell.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/19830520-1645-1728-FrankMitchell.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/19830520-1645-1728-FrankMitchell.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\/19830520-1645-1728-FrankMitchell.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=2347-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/19830520-1645-1728-FrankMitchell.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19830520-1645-1728-FrankMitchell.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/carousel-1981-Eddie-1024x693.jpeg\" alt=\"Full recording: Radio Carousel (Dundalk)\" class=\"wp-image-2339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/carousel-1981-Eddie-1024x693.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/carousel-1981-Eddie-300x203.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/carousel-1981-Eddie-768x520.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/carousel-1981-Eddie-1536x1040.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/carousel-1981-Eddie-2048x1387.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Radio Carousel staff from 1981, including Frank Mitchell and Shane Mullen (photo courtesy of Eddie Caffrey)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording of Radio Carousel features Frank Mitchell on air from 1645-1728 on 20<sup>th<\/sup> May 1983, the station&#8217;s 5<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. The date is significant because it was the time of the raids on Radio Nova and Sunshine Radio, which caused many other pirates to close temporarily as a precaution. The recording was made from FM and there is interference at times. The channel is also re-tuned on a few occasions during the recording. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A noticeable aspect is the large number of requests from listeners throughout Louth and beyond. There are also competitions to win tickets for nights out in local hotels as well as adverts and notices. Shane Mullen reads sports news at 5.30 and the evening news programme at 6pm is mentioned. It all sounds like a respectable local station offering a mixture of music and information and with no shortage of listeners and advertisers. Frank Mitchell currently works as a weather presenter on <a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/utvprogrammes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UTV<\/a> and presents on radio station <a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.u105.com\/on-air\/phone-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U105<\/a>. This recording was made by Gary Camblin and given to us by Ian Biggar.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recording of Radio Carousel features Frank Mitchell on air from 1645-1728 on 20th May 1983, the station&#8217;s 5th birthday. The date is significant because it was the time of the raids on Radio Nova and Sunshine Radio, which caused many other pirates to close temporarily as a precaution. The recording was made from FM &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-radio-carousel-dundalk-3\/\" 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":[501,379,154,544,116],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-501","tag-frank-mitchell","tag-louth","tag-northeast-series","tag-radio-carousel"],"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-3\/\" \/>\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 recording of Radio Carousel features Frank Mitchell on air from 1645-1728 on 20th May 1983, the station&#8217;s 5th birthday. 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