{"id":3323,"date":"2020-12-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2024-12-10T21:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T21:25:57","slug":"more-of-the-final-day-of-centre-radio-new-years-eve-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/more-of-the-final-day-of-centre-radio-new-years-eve-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"More of the final day of Centre Radio, New Year&#8217;s Eve 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1933\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3323-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19881231_Centre_Radio_Stephen_Davitt_Andy_Callaghan_1308-1408_aircheck.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19881231_Centre_Radio_Stephen_Davitt_Andy_Callaghan_1308-1408_aircheck.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19881231_Centre_Radio_Stephen_Davitt_Andy_Callaghan_1308-1408_aircheck.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\/12\/19881231_Centre_Radio_Stephen_Davitt_Andy_Callaghan_1308-1408_aircheck.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=3323-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19881231_Centre_Radio_Stephen_Davitt_Andy_Callaghan_1308-1408_aircheck.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19881231_Centre_Radio_Stephen_Davitt_Andy_Callaghan_1308-1408_aircheck.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"820\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2-unident-1024x820.jpg\" alt=\"More of the final day of Centre Radio, New Year&#039;s Eve 1988\" class=\"wp-image-3324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2-unident-1024x820.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2-unident-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2-unident-768x615.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2-unident.jpg 1431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>In the studio on December 31st, L-R: Brian Greene, Dave O&#8217;Flynn, Tom Campbell, John Walsh, Eamonn Roe. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we bring you more recordings of the final day of Centre Radio on 31<sup>st<\/sup> December 1988 as the airwaves fell silent to make way for new radio legislation. In its two years on air, Centre Radio was based in youth centres or clubs in Baldoyle and Bayside in northeast Dublin and trained about 80 young people in radio. On the final day, various DJs did an hour each and others dropped in to say their goodbyes. Despite serious sleep deprivation, Brian Greene kept it all going. Behind the scenes was Tom Berry (RIP), who had given the youthful station credibility and kept an eye on output since it moved to Bayside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"831\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201225_00003_010_1-831x1024.jpg\" alt=\"More of the final day of Centre Radio, New Year&#039;s Eve 1988\" class=\"wp-image-3325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201225_00003_010_1-831x1024.jpg 831w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201225_00003_010_1-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201225_00003_010_1-768x946.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201225_00003_010_1.jpg 1129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Tom Berry (RIP) who was involved in running Centre Radio when it moved to Bayside in 1987. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On 31<sup>st<\/sup> December, there was a special news bulletin every hour from 12 noon to 7pm with Richard Taylor (John Walsh) which included features about well-known pirates that were closing down or had already left the airwaves. The first recording above is an aircheck of the hour 1308-1408 with Stephen Davitt (Daragh O&#8217;Sullivan) and Andy Callaghan. News at 2pm features Capitol Radio which was also due to close at midnight and Sunshine Radio which switched off on 30<sup>th<\/sup> December. You can hear another recording of Daragh O&#8217;Sullivan <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-centre-radio-dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"817\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Pauline-unident-1024x817.jpg\" alt=\"More of the final day of Centre Radio, New Year&#039;s Eve 1988\" class=\"wp-image-3326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Pauline-unident-1024x817.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Pauline-unident-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Pauline-unident-768x613.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Pauline-unident.jpg 1420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Pauline Reddin and Conal Lawlor on New Year&#8217;s Eve 1988. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The second recording below is of DJ Caroline (Pauline Reddin) from 1715-1815. News at 6pm features KLAS\/Class Radio. Pauline was Brian&#8217;s girlfriend at the time and they would later get married. She presented &#8216;Music of the Century&#8217;, an easy listening show. Centre had a broad range of musical styles from easy listening to punk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19881231_Centre_Radio_Pauline_Reddin_1715-1815.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we bring you more recordings of the final day of Centre Radio on 31st December 1988 as the airwaves fell silent to make way for new radio legislation. In its two years on air, Centre Radio was based in youth centres or clubs in Baldoyle and Bayside in northeast Dublin and trained about 80 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/more-of-the-final-day-of-centre-radio-new-years-eve-1988\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More of the final day of Centre Radio, New Year&#8217;s Eve 1988&#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":[15,152],"tags":[487,302,43,53,309,153,739],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","category-full-recordings","tag-487","tag-1988-closedowns","tag-brian-greene","tag-centre-radio","tag-daragh-osullivan","tag-dublin","tag-new-years-eve"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>More of the final day of Centre Radio, New Year&#039;s Eve 1988 - 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\/more-of-the-final-day-of-centre-radio-new-years-eve-1988\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More of the final day of Centre Radio, New Year&#039;s Eve 1988 - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today we bring you more recordings of the final day of Centre Radio on 31st December 1988 as the airwaves fell silent to make way for new radio legislation. 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