{"id":4506,"date":"2021-08-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=4506"},"modified":"2021-08-11T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T09:02:03","slug":"declan-meehan-stevie-dunne-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/declan-meehan-stevie-dunne-sunshine\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Meehan and Stevie Dunne on Sunshine Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7895\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4506-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/19810212_Sunshine_Radio_539m_Declan_Meehan_JB.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/19810212_Sunshine_Radio_539m_Declan_Meehan_JB.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/19810212_Sunshine_Radio_539m_Declan_Meehan_JB.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\/2021\/08\/19810212_Sunshine_Radio_539m_Declan_Meehan_JB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=4506-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/19810212_Sunshine_Radio_539m_Declan_Meehan_JB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19810212_Sunshine_Radio_539m_Declan_Meehan_JB.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/early-declan-meehan.jpg\" alt=\"Declan Meehan and Stevie Dunne on Sunshine Radio\" class=\"wp-image-3157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/early-declan-meehan.jpg 750w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/early-declan-meehan-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption>Declan Meehan in the Sunshine studio in 1981 (photo courtesy of Ian Biggar). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This early recording of Sunshine Radio features two big names in the radio business since the 1970s, Declan Meehan and Stevie Dunne (Stevie Gordon). Made from 531 kHz AM (announcing 539 metres) from 1323-1410 on 12<sup>th<\/sup> February 1981, Declan&#8217;s lunchtime programme includes the Call and Collect competition based on a car registration number and various adverts, including one for the Sands Hotel in Portmarnock where Sunshine was based. Declan is followed at 2pm by Stevie, who had previously worked at the offshore station Radio Caroline. He would go on to work in other Irish pirates such as Radio Nova and South Coast Radio in Cork. Listen <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/interview-declan-meehan-part-2-1982-1989\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> to an interview with Declan about his radio career from his time at Sunshine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is some co-channel interference on this recording as it was made in Scotland by Ken Baird, outside the core Sunshine AM area. Thanks to John Breslin for the donation.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This early recording of Sunshine Radio features two big names in the radio business since the 1970s, Declan Meehan and Stevie Dunne (Stevie Gordon). Made from 531 kHz AM (announcing 539 metres) from 1323-1410 on 12th February 1981, Declan&#8217;s lunchtime programme includes the Call and Collect competition based on a car registration number and various &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/declan-meehan-stevie-dunne-sunshine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Declan Meehan and Stevie Dunne on Sunshine Radio&#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":[486,46,145,153,89,526,47],"class_list":["post-4506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-486","tag-am","tag-declan-meehan","tag-dublin","tag-dx","tag-stevie-dunne","tag-sunshine-radio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Declan Meehan and Stevie Dunne on Sunshine Radio - 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\/declan-meehan-stevie-dunne-sunshine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Declan Meehan and Stevie Dunne on Sunshine Radio - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This early recording of Sunshine Radio features two big names in the radio business since the 1970s, Declan Meehan and Stevie Dunne (Stevie Gordon). 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