{"id":9081,"date":"2023-10-28T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=9081"},"modified":"2023-10-28T19:34:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T18:34:20","slug":"paul-barnett-rip-on-wabc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/paul-barnett-rip-on-wabc\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Barnett (RIP) on WABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5158\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9081-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/19880707-WABC-1017fm-1019-1105-Paul-Bentley-IB.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/19880707-WABC-1017fm-1019-1105-Paul-Bentley-IB.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/19880707-WABC-1017fm-1019-1105-Paul-Bentley-IB.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\/10\/19880707-WABC-1017fm-1019-1105-Paul-Bentley-IB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=9081-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/19880707-WABC-1017fm-1019-1105-Paul-Bentley-IB.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19880707-WABC-1017fm-1019-1105-Paul-Bentley-IB.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"695\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/paul-and-land-rover-1991-IB-1024x695.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Barnett (RIP) on WABC\" class=\"wp-image-9088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/paul-and-land-rover-1991-IB-1024x695.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/paul-and-land-rover-1991-IB-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/paul-and-land-rover-1991-IB-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/paul-and-land-rover-1991-IB-1536x1043.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/paul-and-land-rover-1991-IB.jpg 1737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Paul Barnett at WABC in 1990 (courtesy Ken Baird and Ian Biggar). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul Barnett (RIP) was involved in pirate radio in Donegal and since the late 1990s was the operator of the long-running AM station Radio North until his death in October 2023. Another station associated with Paul was WABC, which he launched on FM in September 1987. WABC left the airwaves along with the other pirates at the end of 1988 but returned in mid-1989 from the village of Greencastle. The signal was beamed across Northern Ireland and could also be heard in parts of Scotland. The station even had two separate channels for a time, WABC Hot Hits and WABC Gold. Paul left Donegal in 1991 to pursue radio interests in the UK but returned to Ireland in the late 1990s when he revived WABC for a time and took over operation of Radio North. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"671\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DX-Archive-sticker.jpeg\" alt=\"Paul Barnett (RIP) on WABC\" class=\"wp-image-9082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DX-Archive-sticker.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DX-Archive-sticker-300x205.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DX-Archive-sticker-768x526.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>WABC sticker from the late 1980s (courtesy DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording of WABC from 101.7 FM was made between 1019 and 1105 on 7<sup>th<\/sup> July 1988 and features Paul on air, using the name Paul Bentley. 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WABC left the airwaves along with the other pirates &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/paul-barnett-rip-on-wabc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paul Barnett (RIP) on WABC&#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":[487,260,459,675,676],"class_list":["post-9081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-487","tag-border","tag-donegal","tag-paul-barnett","tag-wabc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Paul Barnett (RIP) on WABC - 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\/paul-barnett-rip-on-wabc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Paul Barnett (RIP) on WABC - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Paul Barnett (RIP) was involved in pirate radio in Donegal and since the late 1990s was the operator of the long-running AM station Radio North until his death in October 2023. 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