{"id":6358,"date":"2022-05-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=6358"},"modified":"2024-05-02T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T15:20:08","slug":"radio-sandymount-during-1983-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/radio-sandymount-during-1983-raids\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Sandymount during 1983 raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7770\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6358-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/19830519_Radio_Sandymount_Charlie_Sheehan_199m_SK.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/19830519_Radio_Sandymount_Charlie_Sheehan_199m_SK.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/19830519_Radio_Sandymount_Charlie_Sheehan_199m_SK.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\/2022\/05\/19830519_Radio_Sandymount_Charlie_Sheehan_199m_SK.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=6358-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/19830519_Radio_Sandymount_Charlie_Sheehan_199m_SK.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19830519_Radio_Sandymount_Charlie_Sheehan_199m_SK.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"943\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Charlie-Sheehan-via-Dave-Reddy-943x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Radio Sandymount during 1983 raids\" class=\"wp-image-3003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Charlie-Sheehan-via-Dave-Reddy-943x1024.jpg 943w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Charlie-Sheehan-via-Dave-Reddy-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Charlie-Sheehan-via-Dave-Reddy-768x834.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Charlie-Sheehan-via-Dave-Reddy-1414x1536.jpg 1414w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Charlie-Sheehan-via-Dave-Reddy.jpg 1458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Charlie Sheehan on Radio Sandymount (courtesy Dave Reddy). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1983 raids on Radio Nova and Sunshine Radio rocked the Irish pirate scene, with many stations closing temporarily as a precaution. This recording is of temporary station Radio Sandymount on the morning of Thursday 19<sup>th<\/sup> May, not long after Sunshine Radio in Portmarnock was raided. Radio Nova had been put off the air the previous day but returned on the morning of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> on lower power. Charlie Sheehan is the presenter on Radio Sandymount, which was in the middle of its run to coincide with the Sandymount and Merrion Community Festival. There&#8217;s no mention of the raids but panic was spreading through the pirate world at the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording was made from 1512 kHz, announcing 199 metres. Radio Sandymount also broadcast on 99.9 FM. The station was part of the Community Broadcasting Co-operative that ran several temporary community stations in Dublin and surrounding counties between 1982 and 1988. This recording is from the Skywave Tapes Collection. Radio Skywave was a shortwave pirate broadcasting from northeast Dublin in the 1980s.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1983 raids on Radio Nova and Sunshine Radio rocked the Irish pirate scene, with many stations closing temporarily as a precaution. This recording is of temporary station Radio Sandymount on the morning of Thursday 19th May, not long after Sunshine Radio in Portmarnock was raided. Radio Nova had been put off the air the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/radio-sandymount-during-1983-raids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Radio Sandymount during 1983 raids&#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":[501,171,707,46,435,429,24,153,219,545],"class_list":["post-6358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-501","tag-1983-raids","tag-19th-may-1983","tag-am","tag-charlie-sheehan","tag-community-broadcasting-co-operative","tag-community-radio","tag-dublin","tag-radio-sandymount","tag-skywave-collection"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Radio Sandymount during 1983 raids - 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\/radio-sandymount-during-1983-raids\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Radio Sandymount during 1983 raids - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 1983 raids on Radio Nova and Sunshine Radio rocked the Irish pirate scene, with many stations closing temporarily as a precaution. 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