{"id":3101,"date":"2020-11-25T07:54:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T07:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2020-11-25T07:57:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T07:57:10","slug":"pirate-radio-still-making-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/pirate-radio-still-making-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate radio still making waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1997\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3101-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201124_Q102_Aidan_Cooney_Ken-Sweeney.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201124_Q102_Aidan_Cooney_Ken-Sweeney.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201124_Q102_Aidan_Cooney_Ken-Sweeney.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\/11\/20201124_Q102_Aidan_Cooney_Ken-Sweeney.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=3101-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201124_Q102_Aidan_Cooney_Ken-Sweeney.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20201124_Q102_Aidan_Cooney_Ken-Sweeney.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Irish_Pirate_Radio_Archive-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Pirate radio still making waves\" class=\"wp-image-1345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Irish_Pirate_Radio_Archive-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Irish_Pirate_Radio_Archive-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Irish_Pirate_Radio_Archive-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Irish_Pirate_Radio_Archive-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Irish_Pirate_Radio_Archive-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Irish_Pirate_Radio_Archive.png 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Veteran broadcaster Aidan Cooney worked on many pirate stations in Dublin from the late 1970s including Radio Dublin, ARD, Treble TR, Sunshine Radio and Radio Nova. Since 1989 he has been a presenter on commercial radio and television and is currently heard on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.q102.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Q102<\/a>&nbsp;in Dublin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the Q102 breakfast show on 24<sup>th<\/sup> November 2020, Aidan was brought down memory lane about his pirate days with <em>Irish Sun<\/em> entertainment editor Ken Sweeney. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran broadcaster Aidan Cooney worked on many pirate stations in Dublin from the late 1970s including Radio Dublin, ARD, Treble TR, Sunshine Radio and Radio Nova. Since 1989 he has been a presenter on commercial radio and television and is currently heard on Q102&nbsp;in Dublin. On the Q102 breakfast show on 24th November 2020, Aidan &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/pirate-radio-still-making-waves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pirate radio still making waves&#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":[14],"tags":[148,36,133,9],"class_list":["post-3101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","tag-aidan-cooney","tag-ard","tag-history","tag-radio-dublin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pirate radio still making waves - 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\/pirate-radio-still-making-waves\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pirate radio still making waves - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Veteran broadcaster Aidan Cooney worked on many pirate stations in Dublin from the late 1970s including Radio Dublin, ARD, Treble TR, Sunshine Radio and Radio Nova. 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