{"id":8417,"date":"2023-05-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=8417"},"modified":"2024-08-01T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T14:02:08","slug":"final-day-of-radio-sandymount-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/final-day-of-radio-sandymount-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Final day of Radio Sandymount 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4898\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8417-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AI1217-A-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AI1217-A-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AI1217-A-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\/2023\/04\/AI1217-A-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=8417-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AI1217-A-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"AI1217-A-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"802\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/David-Baker-Paula-Walsh-Dermot-Lacey-via-Dave-Reddy-1024x802.jpg\" alt=\"Final day of Radio Sandymount 1984\" class=\"wp-image-3007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/David-Baker-Paula-Walsh-Dermot-Lacey-via-Dave-Reddy-1024x802.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/David-Baker-Paula-Walsh-Dermot-Lacey-via-Dave-Reddy-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/David-Baker-Paula-Walsh-Dermot-Lacey-via-Dave-Reddy-768x602.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/David-Baker-Paula-Walsh-Dermot-Lacey-via-Dave-Reddy.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">L-R: David Baker, Paula Walsh (Miss Sandymount) and Dermot Lacey during the station&#8217;s broadcasts in 1986. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Radio Sandymount was one of several pop-up community radio stations run by the Community Broadcasting Co-operative (CBC) in Dublin and surrounding counties between 1982 and 1988.\u00a0Set up by Dave Reddy and Al O&#8217;Rourke, Radio Sandymount was the first such station and proved so popular that the idea was replicated in other parts of Dublin as well as Wicklow and Meath. The CBC stations coincided with local community festivals and were a regular part of the radio scene on the east coast during the 1980s. Another CBC station was Radio Snowflake, which came on air at Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Radio Sandymount broadcast each year during the Sandymount and Merrion Community Week in late May or early June. This recording features the last day of the station&#8217;s run in 1984 . On air is David Baker, a familiar voice on the CBC stations and on numerous other pirates throughout the decade. There are plenty of requests, competition winners and references to local talent competitions and dinner dances &#8211; local radio at its finest! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording was made from 103.3 FM on 28<sup>th<\/sup> May 1984 between 1048-1135. Radio Sandymount also broadcast on 1116 kHz during the same period. The tape is from the Anoraks Ireland Tapes Collection, donated to us by Paul Davidson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Sandymount was one of several pop-up community radio stations run by the Community Broadcasting Co-operative (CBC) in Dublin and surrounding counties between 1982 and 1988.\u00a0Set up by Dave Reddy and Al O&#8217;Rourke, Radio Sandymount was the first such station and proved so popular that the idea was replicated in other parts of Dublin as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/final-day-of-radio-sandymount-1984\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Final day of Radio Sandymount 1984&#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":[537,564,429,24,27,153,219],"class_list":["post-8417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-537","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-community-broadcasting-co-operative","tag-community-radio","tag-david-baker","tag-dublin","tag-radio-sandymount"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Final day of Radio Sandymount 1984 - 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\/final-day-of-radio-sandymount-1984\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Final day of Radio Sandymount 1984 - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Radio Sandymount was one of several pop-up community radio stations run by the Community Broadcasting Co-operative (CBC) in Dublin and surrounding counties between 1982 and 1988.\u00a0Set up by Dave Reddy and Al O&#8217;Rourke, Radio Sandymount was the first such station and proved so popular that the idea was replicated in other parts of Dublin as &hellip; 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