{"id":966,"date":"2019-12-29T15:38:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T15:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=966"},"modified":"2023-03-25T14:54:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T14:54:31","slug":"interview-kildare-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/interview-kildare-pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Kildare pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5235\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-966-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Liam-Kett-Anthony-McAllister-edit-mp3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Liam-Kett-Anthony-McAllister-edit-mp3.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Liam-Kett-Anthony-McAllister-edit-mp3.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\/12\/Liam-Kett-Anthony-McAllister-edit-mp3.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=966-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Liam-Kett-Anthony-McAllister-edit-mp3.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Liam-Kett-Anthony-McAllister-edit-mp3.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pirate-dot-ie-red-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Interview: Kildare pirates\" class=\"wp-image-4287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pirate-dot-ie-red-logo.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pirate-dot-ie-red-logo-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite its proximity to Dublin, Kildare had its own pirate stations down the years, including Radio Cill Dara (Naas), Kildare Community Radio (Naas) and KLB Community Radio (Newbridge). 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They recall that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/interview-kildare-pirates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview: Kildare pirates&#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":[14],"tags":[86,643,214,215,9],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","tag-blb","tag-kildare","tag-klb","tag-radio-cill-dara","tag-radio-dublin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Interview: Kildare pirates - 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\/interview-kildare-pirates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Interview: Kildare pirates - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Despite its proximity to Dublin, Kildare had its own pirate stations down the years, including Radio Cill Dara (Naas), Kildare Community Radio (Naas) and KLB Community Radio (Newbridge). 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