{"id":977,"date":"2020-01-01T16:30:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=977"},"modified":"2020-11-10T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T19:53:00","slug":"interview-dave-reddy-radio-sandymount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/interview-dave-reddy-radio-sandymount\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Dave Reddy (Radio Sandymount)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3278\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-977-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Dave-Reddy-edit.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Dave-Reddy-edit.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Dave-Reddy-edit.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\/2020\/01\/Dave-Reddy-edit.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=977-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Dave-Reddy-edit.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Dave-Reddy-edit.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"865\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Dave-Reddy-Fergus-Murray-David-Baker-Charlie-Sheehan-via-D-Reddy-1024x865.jpg\" alt=\"Interview: Dave Reddy (Radio Sandymount)\" class=\"wp-image-3017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Dave-Reddy-Fergus-Murray-David-Baker-Charlie-Sheehan-via-D-Reddy-1024x865.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Dave-Reddy-Fergus-Murray-David-Baker-Charlie-Sheehan-via-D-Reddy-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Dave-Reddy-Fergus-Murray-David-Baker-Charlie-Sheehan-via-D-Reddy-768x649.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Dave-Reddy-Fergus-Murray-David-Baker-Charlie-Sheehan-via-D-Reddy.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>L-R Dave Reddy, Fergus Murray, David Baker and Charlie Sheehan at Radio Sandymount (courtesy Dave Reddy).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In this interview, Dave Reddy recalls his involvement in ARD (Alternative Radio Dublin) and Radio 257 at the end of the 1970s. Dave would go to to establish what would today be called &#8216;pop-up&#8217; community stations, starting with Radio Sandymount in 1982. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Radio Sandymount went on air as part of a community festival in that area and Dave Reddy explains that the model was soon to be requested by community groups elsewhere, leading to similar short-term stations in Ringsend, Donnybrook and Wicklow. Dave was also founder of the first Christmas station Radio Snowflake, which is now run by David Baker who himself broadcast on the 1980s pop-up stations and many other pirates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interviewer is Eolann Aitken. You can listen to recordings of Radio Donnybrook <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/tags\/radio-donnybrook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview, Dave Reddy recalls his involvement in ARD (Alternative Radio Dublin) and Radio 257 at the end of the 1970s. Dave would go to to establish what would today be called &#8216;pop-up&#8217; community stations, starting with Radio Sandymount in 1982. Radio Sandymount went on air as part of a community festival in that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/interview-dave-reddy-radio-sandymount\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview: Dave Reddy (Radio Sandymount)&#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":[36,86,24,222,29,9,220,219,221],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","tag-ard","tag-blb","tag-community-radio","tag-radio-257","tag-radio-donnybrook","tag-radio-dublin","tag-radio-ringsend","tag-radio-sandymount","tag-wicklow-regatta-radio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Interview: Dave Reddy (Radio Sandymount) - 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-dave-reddy-radio-sandymount\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Interview: Dave Reddy (Radio Sandymount) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In this interview, Dave Reddy recalls his involvement in ARD (Alternative Radio Dublin) and Radio 257 at the end of the 1970s. 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