{"id":2667,"date":"2020-09-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2021-08-07T15:02:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T14:02:05","slug":"northeast-series-boyneside-radio-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/northeast-series-boyneside-radio-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast series: Boyneside Radio (1980-1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8101\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2667-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19800319_Boyneside_Ken_Murray_Tomas_OFiaich_EC.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19800319_Boyneside_Ken_Murray_Tomas_OFiaich_EC.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19800319_Boyneside_Ken_Murray_Tomas_OFiaich_EC.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19800319_Boyneside_Ken_Murray_Tomas_OFiaich_EC.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=2667-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19800319_Boyneside_Ken_Murray_Tomas_OFiaich_EC.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19800319_Boyneside_Ken_Murray_Tomas_OFiaich_EC.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/eric-ken-gavin-eddie-1981-1024x687.jpeg\" alt=\"Northeast series: Boyneside Radio (1980-1)\" class=\"wp-image-2666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/eric-ken-gavin-eddie-1981-1024x687.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/eric-ken-gavin-eddie-1981-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/eric-ken-gavin-eddie-1981-768x515.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/eric-ken-gavin-eddie-1981.jpeg 1466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>L-R: Ken Murray, Eric Vaughan, Gavin Duffy &amp; Eddie Caffrey at Boyneside in 1981 (photo courtesy Eddie Caffrey)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we bring you three short recordings of Boyneside Radio in 1980 and 1981. The first recording above is a bit of a scoop &#8211; an interview by Ken Murray with Cardinal Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 Fiaich on 19<sup>th<\/sup> March 1980. The Catholic Primate of All Ireland was in Drogheda to accept the award of freeman of the town. Cardinal \u00d3 Fiaich was well aware of the importance of local radio but stopped short of calling for it to be licensed! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second recording below is an airchecked version of Eddie Caffrey&#8217;s afternoon show with \u00c1ine N\u00ed Ghuidhir on news on April 14<sup>th<\/sup> 1980. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19800414_Eddie_Caffrey_edit.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, from sometime in 1981, a recording of Gavin Duffy announcing a meeting in Drogheda to discuss the future of local radio, presumably called after the publication of the Independent Local Radio Authority Bill on 1<sup>st<\/sup> May that year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19810000_Gavin_Duffy_local_radio_meeting_EC.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We thank Eddie Caffrey for donating these recordings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we bring you three short recordings of Boyneside Radio in 1980 and 1981. The first recording above is a bit of a scoop &#8211; an interview by Ken Murray with Cardinal Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 Fiaich on 19th March 1980. The Catholic Primate of All Ireland was in Drogheda to accept the award of freeman of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/northeast-series-boyneside-radio-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Northeast series: Boyneside Radio (1980-1)&#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],"tags":[490,486,18,119,376,160,398,154,544],"class_list":["post-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","tag-490","tag-486","tag-boyneside-radio","tag-eddie-caffrey","tag-eric-vaughan","tag-gavin-duffy","tag-ken-murray","tag-louth","tag-northeast-series"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Northeast series: Boyneside Radio (1980-1) - 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\/northeast-series-boyneside-radio-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Northeast series: Boyneside Radio (1980-1) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today we bring you three short recordings of Boyneside Radio in 1980 and 1981. 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