{"id":8618,"date":"2023-06-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=8618"},"modified":"2023-06-06T07:03:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T06:03:46","slug":"religious-programme-on-radio-leinster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/religious-programme-on-radio-leinster\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious programme on Radio Leinster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3192\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8618-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/19810913_Radio-Leinster_fr_michael_conaghty_catholic_universe_TI.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/19810913_Radio-Leinster_fr_michael_conaghty_catholic_universe_TI.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/19810913_Radio-Leinster_fr_michael_conaghty_catholic_universe_TI.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\/05\/19810913_Radio-Leinster_fr_michael_conaghty_catholic_universe_TI.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=8618-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/19810913_Radio-Leinster_fr_michael_conaghty_catholic_universe_TI.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19810913_Radio-Leinster_fr_michael_conaghty_catholic_universe_TI.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/738-R-Leinster-sticker-20230603_152824-SM-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Religious programme on Radio Leinster\" class=\"wp-image-8660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/738-R-Leinster-sticker-20230603_152824-SM-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/738-R-Leinster-sticker-20230603_152824-SM-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/738-R-Leinster-sticker-20230603_152824-SM-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/738-R-Leinster-sticker-20230603_152824-SM-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/738-R-Leinster-sticker-20230603_152824-SM-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Radio Leinster sticker from 1983 (courtesy Svenn Martinsen). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Radio Leinster was a specialist Dublin station with an easy listening and talk format in contrast with the diet of pop preferred by most pirates. It broadcast from 29<sup>th<\/sup> April 1981 until 19<sup>th<\/sup> May 1983, closing down suddenly as panic spread following the raids on super-pirates Radio Nova and Sunshine Radio. Radio Leinster was situated on an elevated site in Sandyford with an excellent view of the city from its studios. The professionally-made 1 kW transmitter on 738 kHz (406 metres) gave good coverage by day but suffered co-channel interference after dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This short recording from Sunday 13<sup>th<\/sup> September 1981 features part of a religious programme presented by Fr. Michael Conaghty, who reads headlines from the <em>Catholic Universe<\/em>. Some of Radio Leinster&#8217;s distinctive interval signals are also heard. The clip was recorded in Malahide, north Co. Dublin and is from the Leon Tipler Tapes Collection, donated to us by Steve England. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Leinster was a specialist Dublin station with an easy listening and talk format in contrast with the diet of pop preferred by most pirates. It broadcast from 29th April 1981 until 19th May 1983, closing down suddenly as panic spread following the raids on super-pirates Radio Nova and Sunshine Radio. Radio Leinster was situated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/religious-programme-on-radio-leinster\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Religious programme on Radio Leinster&#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":[486,46,153,342,37,170],"class_list":["post-8618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","tag-486","tag-am","tag-dublin","tag-leon-tipler","tag-radio-leinster","tag-religious"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Religious programme on Radio Leinster - 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\/religious-programme-on-radio-leinster\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Religious programme on Radio Leinster - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Radio Leinster was a specialist Dublin station with an easy listening and talk format in contrast with the diet of pop preferred by most pirates. 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