{"id":9211,"date":"2023-12-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=9211"},"modified":"2023-12-08T21:59:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T21:59:53","slug":"late-night-requests-on-radio-vera-from-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/late-night-requests-on-radio-vera-from-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Late night requests on Radio Vera from Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3378\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9211-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VERA01.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VERA01.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VERA01.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\/12\/VERA01.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=9211-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VERA01.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"VERA01.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Compliments-Card-1024x477.jpg\" alt=\"Late night requests on Radio Vera from Limerick\" class=\"wp-image-9212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Compliments-Card-1024x477.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Compliments-Card-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Compliments-Card-768x358.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Compliments-Card-1536x715.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Compliments-Card.jpg 1789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Radio Vera compliments slip (Anoraks Ireland Collection). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Radio Vera was a Limerick station broadcasting towards the end of the 1980s pirate era. Launched in late 1987, it was linked to an existing city station, Radio Munster with which it shared a building in William Street. Radio Vera aimed its programmes at the 15-34 age cohort, featuring pop music, chat, news, sports and local interviews. It claimed to be one of the few Limerick stations available over a 50-mile radius around Limerick City and its advertising brochures included maps covering most of the southwest of Ireland. Radio Vera closed at the end of 1988 along with other pirate stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"734\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Radio-Vera-Rate-Card-Side-1-1024x734.jpg\" alt=\"Late night requests on Radio Vera from Limerick\" class=\"wp-image-9213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Radio-Vera-Rate-Card-Side-1-1024x734.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Radio-Vera-Rate-Card-Side-1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Radio-Vera-Rate-Card-Side-1-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Radio-Vera-Rate-Card-Side-1-1536x1101.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Radio-Vera-Rate-Card-Side-1-2048x1468.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Advertising material with claimed coverage map (Anoraks Ireland Collection). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This tape was made from 97.7 FM on 14<sup>th<\/sup> November 1988 from 2230-2307 and features Jeff Graham with a late-night requests show. News at the top of the hour is read by Edwina and adverts cover Limerick and north Kerry. The recording is of fair reception quality as it was made outside the core broadcasting area. We thank John Breslin for the donation. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Vera was a Limerick station broadcasting towards the end of the 1980s pirate era. Launched in late 1987, it was linked to an existing city station, Radio Munster with which it shared a building in William Street. Radio Vera aimed its programmes at the 15-34 age cohort, featuring pop music, chat, news, sports and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/late-night-requests-on-radio-vera-from-limerick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Late night requests on Radio Vera from Limerick&#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":[487,224,108],"class_list":["post-9211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-487","tag-limerick","tag-radio-vera"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Late night requests on Radio Vera from Limerick - 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\/late-night-requests-on-radio-vera-from-limerick\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Late night requests on Radio Vera from Limerick - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Radio Vera was a Limerick station broadcasting towards the end of the 1980s pirate era. 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