{"id":2672,"date":"2020-09-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2021-08-07T15:01:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T14:01:56","slug":"northeast-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/northeast-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast series: Boyneside Radio (1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3142\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2672-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19810400_Boyneside_nighttime_Daire_Nelson_EC-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19810400_Boyneside_nighttime_Daire_Nelson_EC-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19810400_Boyneside_nighttime_Daire_Nelson_EC-online-audio-converter.com_.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\/19810400_Boyneside_nighttime_Daire_Nelson_EC-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=2672-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19810400_Boyneside_nighttime_Daire_Nelson_EC-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19810400_Boyneside_nighttime_Daire_Nelson_EC-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=\"967\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/EricAug1981.jpg\" alt=\"Northeast series: Boyneside Radio (1981)\" class=\"wp-image-2712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/EricAug1981.jpg 967w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/EricAug1981-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/EricAug1981-768x794.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Eric Vaughan at Boyneside Radio in August 1981 (photo courtesy of Ken Baird, DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we bring you two recordings of Boyneside Radio from spring 1981, not long before the station split. The first extract above is an aircheck of Daire Nelson, a well-known presenter on Boyneside and other stations in the northeast, on his overnight programme in May 1981. Although it sounds like a live show, the overnight tapes at Boyneside were pre-recorded. At the end, Daire hands over to Eric Vaughan on the breakfast show. Sound quality is excellent as this is the original studio copy on a C-120 tape. Daire cut his radio teeth at Midland Radio in Athlone in 1979 before moving to North East Radio in Dundalk. He also worked in Radio Carousel, East Coast Radio in Ardee, Radio West in Mullingar and was a familiar voice on the northeast&#8217;s licensed station <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lmfm.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">LMFM<\/a> after 1989. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"729\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BoynesideFlyer1981-729x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Northeast series: Boyneside Radio (1981)\" class=\"wp-image-2673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BoynesideFlyer1981-729x1024.jpg 729w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BoynesideFlyer1981-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BoynesideFlyer1981.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><figcaption>Boyneside Radio flyer from 1981 (courtesy of Ian Biggar). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The second recording below is an airchecked version of Eric Vaughan on an overnight show on Boyneside, also a studio copy and from May 1981.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Boyneside-May-1981-Eric-Vaughan.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many thanks to Eddie Caffrey for donating these recordings and to Ian Biggar for additional information.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we bring you two recordings of Boyneside Radio from spring 1981, not long before the station split. The first extract above is an aircheck of Daire Nelson, a well-known presenter on Boyneside and other stations in the northeast, on his overnight programme in May 1981. Although it sounds like a live show, the overnight &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/northeast-series\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Northeast series: Boyneside Radio (1981)&#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":[486,18,399,376,44,154,544],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","tag-486","tag-boyneside-radio","tag-daire-nelson","tag-eric-vaughan","tag-lmfm","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 (1981) - 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\/\" \/>\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 (1981) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today we bring you two recordings of Boyneside Radio from spring 1981, not long before the station split. 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