{"id":776,"date":"2019-01-27T11:09:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T11:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=776"},"modified":"2022-04-09T21:08:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T20:08:25","slug":"aircheck-christian-community-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/aircheck-christian-community-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Aircheck: Christian Community Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5701\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-776-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/O_Mahony_GB_01.01.87.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/O_Mahony_GB_01.01.87.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/O_Mahony_GB_01.01.87.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\/O_Mahony_GB_01.01.87.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=776-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/O_Mahony_GB_01.01.87.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"O_Mahony_GB_01.01.87.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"814\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC00109-2-1024x814.jpg\" alt=\"Aircheck: Christian Community Radio\" class=\"wp-image-4606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC00109-2-1024x814.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC00109-2-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC00109-2-768x611.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC00109-2-1536x1221.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC00109-2-2048x1628.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dublin had a number of Catholic pirate radio stations during the 1980s. The Irish Christian Broadcasting Service (ICBS) broadcast mostly pre-recorded programmes on 1071 and later 981 kHz from Chapelizod from west Dublin.  A more conservative outfit was Christian Community Radio operated by Catholic solicitor Gerry O&#8217;Mahony from Merrion Square in Dublin 2. O&#8217;Mahony was a leading campaigner against the liberalisation of Irish society in the 1980s and used his station to oppose gay rights, abortion and divorce. In 2008 he was banned by the Archbishop of Dublin from distributing leaflets in churches as part of a &#8216;prayer crusade&#8217; against the Lisbon Treaty being debated at the time.  Mr O&#8217;Mahony died that year aged 90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christian Community Radio is listed on 1512 kHz AM and 90.2 FM by Anoraks Ireland in November 1986. By July 1987, it was on 90.2 only. Sound quality and production standards were poor, the programmes consisting mostly of recordings of prayers and masses. The proximity of the Christian Community Radio frequency to a BBC Radio 1\/2 transmitter on 90.1 MHz from Belfast prompted complaints from listeners and brought greater notoriety to the station. On 28<sup>th<\/sup> October 1987, Gerry O&#8217;Mahony was interviewed on Ireland&#8217;s most-listened to radio programme, the Gay Byrne Show on RT\u00c9. He argued that the BBC signal was freak reception and even claimed brazenly that he had been licensed to broadcast. The station was raided by the Department of Communications two days later. We&#8217;re not sure if Christian Community Radio returned to the air but there is no mention of the station in Anoraks Ireland lists from early 1988. It is likely that the nationwide publicity provided by Gay Byrne sounded its death knell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/O_Mahony_GB_01.01.87-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin had a number of Catholic pirate radio stations during the 1980s. The Irish Christian Broadcasting Service (ICBS) broadcast mostly pre-recorded programmes on 1071 and later 981 kHz from Chapelizod from west Dublin. A more conservative outfit was Christian Community Radio operated by Catholic solicitor Gerry O&#8217;Mahony from Merrion Square in Dublin 2. O&#8217;Mahony was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/aircheck-christian-community-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aircheck: Christian Community 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":[15],"tags":[505,234,153,169,170],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","tag-505","tag-christian-community-radio","tag-dublin","tag-gay-byrne","tag-religious"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Aircheck: Christian Community 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\/aircheck-christian-community-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aircheck: Christian Community Radio - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dublin had a number of Catholic pirate radio stations during the 1980s. 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