{"id":7393,"date":"2022-11-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=7393"},"modified":"2025-10-25T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:55:08","slug":"all-night-sunshine-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/all-night-sunshine-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"All-night Sunshine Radio on October bank holiday weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9567\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7393-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/19851028_Sunshine_Radio_101fm_nonstop_news_0138-0202_SG.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/19851028_Sunshine_Radio_101fm_nonstop_news_0138-0202_SG.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/19851028_Sunshine_Radio_101fm_nonstop_news_0138-0202_SG.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\/11\/19851028_Sunshine_Radio_101fm_nonstop_news_0138-0202_SG.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=7393-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/19851028_Sunshine_Radio_101fm_nonstop_news_0138-0202_SG.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19851028_Sunshine_Radio_101fm_nonstop_news_0138-0202_SG.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"869\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_20221126_0005-1024x869.jpg\" alt=\"All-night Sunshine Radio on October bank holiday weekend\" class=\"wp-image-7394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_20221126_0005-1024x869.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_20221126_0005-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_20221126_0005-768x652.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_20221126_0005-rotated.jpg 1376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Sunshine sticker from 1986 (courtesy Pat Herbert RIP). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording of Dublin&#8217;s super-pirate Sunshine Radio was made in the early hours of the October bank holiday Monday 1985. Non-stop music is heard for the first twenty minutes or so, possibly from the Tamango&#8217;s nightclub at the Sands Hotel in Portmarnock where Sunshine was based. The <em>Sunshine Radio Review<\/em> of 1985 lists live music from Tamango&#8217;s from midnight to 2am every Saturday morning. This may have been the case also on the Sunday of the bank holiday weekend, although there is no mention of the club during the music sweep. News at 2am is read by Joyce Jackson, who would go on to work as a journalist in RT\u00c9. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording was donated kindly to us by Shay Geoghegan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recording of Dublin&#8217;s super-pirate Sunshine Radio was made in the early hours of the October bank holiday Monday 1985. Non-stop music is heard for the first twenty minutes or so, possibly from the Tamango&#8217;s nightclub at the Sands Hotel in Portmarnock where Sunshine was based. 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