{"id":7153,"date":"2022-10-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=7153"},"modified":"2022-10-07T21:43:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T20:43:53","slug":"hugh-obrien-and-david-dennehy-on-ard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/hugh-obrien-and-david-dennehy-on-ard\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh O&#8217;Brien and David Dennehy on ARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6872\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7153-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/8065AI-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/8065AI-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/8065AI-192.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\/09\/8065AI-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=7153-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/8065AI-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"8065AI-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"669\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/crofton-aerial-2-669x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Hugh O&#039;Brien and David Dennehy on ARD\" class=\"wp-image-7167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/crofton-aerial-2-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/crofton-aerial-2-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/crofton-aerial-2-768x1175.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/crofton-aerial-2-1004x1536.jpg 1004w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/crofton-aerial-2-1338x2048.jpg 1338w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/crofton-aerial-2-scaled.jpg 1673w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><figcaption>ARD&#8217;s aerial at the Crofton Hotel in 1981 (courtesy Noel Hiney). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording of Alternative Radio Dublin (ARD) was made on a Saturday afternoon in 1981. Hugh O&#8217;Brien is on air with mostly oldies and is joined by David Dennehy with sports news. Both would be heard on other pirates throughout the 1980s and on licensed radio thereafter. The recording includes a news flash about the highjacking of an Aer Lingus plane in Paris. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are plenty of adverts including one for Channel 3 television, later to be known as Channel D. Channel 3 was one of a handful of short-lived pirate television stations broadcasting in the 1980s. It was set up by Don Moore of ARD and Michael Tiernan of the National Independent Broadcasting Organisation, a grouping of commercial pirate stations. Other voices heard on adverts are Paul Vincent, Dave C. and Tony Allan. The cassette has become degraded over time and there is some audio distortion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/8065AI-1024x664.jpg\" alt=\"Hugh O&#039;Brien and David Dennehy on ARD\" class=\"wp-image-7229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/8065AI-1024x664.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/8065AI-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/8065AI-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/8065AI-rotated.jpg 1184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Original cassette label from Anoraks Ireland Collection. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording was made from 99.9 FM from 1659-1745 on 2nd May 1981. It is from the Anoraks Ireland Tapes Collection, donated to us by Paul Davidson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recording of Alternative Radio Dublin (ARD) was made on a Saturday afternoon in 1981. Hugh O&#8217;Brien is on air with mostly oldies and is joined by David Dennehy with sports news. Both would be heard on other pirates throughout the 1980s and on licensed radio thereafter. The recording includes a news flash about the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/hugh-obrien-and-david-dennehy-on-ard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hugh O&#8217;Brien and David Dennehy on ARD&#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":[486,564,36,608,528,153,200],"class_list":["post-7153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-486","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-ard","tag-channel-3","tag-david-dennehy","tag-dublin","tag-hugh-obrien"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hugh O&#039;Brien and David Dennehy on ARD - 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\/hugh-obrien-and-david-dennehy-on-ard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hugh O&#039;Brien and David Dennehy on ARD - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This recording of Alternative Radio Dublin (ARD) was made on a Saturday afternoon in 1981. 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