{"id":719,"date":"2019-01-17T08:48:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T08:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=719"},"modified":"2022-12-04T16:20:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T16:20:32","slug":"full-recording-centre-radio-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-centre-radio-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Davitt on Centre Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6957\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-719-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19881227_Centre_Radio_Stephen_Davitt_1107_1152_full_recording.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19881227_Centre_Radio_Stephen_Davitt_1107_1152_full_recording.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19881227_Centre_Radio_Stephen_Davitt_1107_1152_full_recording.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19881227_Centre_Radio_Stephen_Davitt_1107_1152_full_recording.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=719-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19881227_Centre_Radio_Stephen_Davitt_1107_1152_full_recording.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19881227_Centre_Radio_Stephen_Davitt_1107_1152_full_recording.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"838\" height=\"357\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/centre_radio-scaled1000.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Davitt on Centre Radio\" class=\"wp-image-309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/centre_radio-scaled1000.jpg 838w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/centre_radio-scaled1000-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/centre_radio-scaled1000-768x327.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Centre Radio logo courtesy of Brian Greene. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Centre Radio began as a hobby station on December 19th 1986 from Baldoyle in northeast Dublin and came on air during school holidays. Brian Greene of Pirate.ie was one of the original founders and the other founder of this site John Walsh was also involved. By 1987 the station had developed into a youth project and was training up to 80 young people in radio. From February 1988 Centre was on air every evening and weekend from  Bayside. It was one of the last stations in Dublin to close down at midnight on New Year&#8217;s Eve 1988. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording is from 94 FM a few days prior to closedown, 27th December 1988, and features a youthful Stephen Davitt (aka Daragh O&#8217;Sullivan) on air.  You can read more about the history of Centre <a href=\"https:\/\/wirelessflirt.wordpress.com\/2016\/12\/19\/centre-radio\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre Radio began as a hobby station on December 19th 1986 from Baldoyle in northeast Dublin and came on air during school holidays. Brian Greene of Pirate.ie was one of the original founders and the other founder of this site John Walsh was also involved. By 1987 the station had developed into a youth project &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-centre-radio-dublin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stephen Davitt on Centre 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":[487,53,24,309,153],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-487","tag-centre-radio","tag-community-radio","tag-daragh-osullivan","tag-dublin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stephen Davitt on Centre 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\/full-recording-centre-radio-dublin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stephen Davitt on Centre Radio - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Centre Radio began as a hobby station on December 19th 1986 from Baldoyle in northeast Dublin and came on air during school holidays. 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