{"id":9903,"date":"2024-06-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=9903"},"modified":"2025-09-01T20:15:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:15:52","slug":"charity-fundraising-weekend-on-kiss-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/charity-fundraising-weekend-on-kiss-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity fundraising weekend on KISS FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1822\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9903-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/8112AI-A-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/8112AI-A-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/8112AI-A-192.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\/2024\/06\/8112AI-A-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=9903-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/8112AI-A-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"8112AI-A-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fullsizeoutput_18b-1024x530.jpeg\" alt=\"Charity fundraising weekend on KISS FM\" class=\"wp-image-1144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fullsizeoutput_18b-1024x530.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fullsizeoutput_18b-300x155.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fullsizeoutput_18b-768x397.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">KISS FM flyer (courtesy Ian Biggar). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Over the St. Patrick\u2019s weekend 1986, Dublin station KISS FM (1985-1986) organised a charity fundraiser for the Irish Society for Autistic Children. Listeners were invited to pledge \u00a31 or more and station DJs collected money on the streets of Dublin near the KISS FM studios in Foley Street in the north inner city. The highlight of the weekend was a disco dancing marathon at the nearby North Star Hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This airchecked recording includes live links with station manager David Baker from the city centre, using what appears to be a radio mic. David refers to the imminent arrival of an outside broadcasting unit from Radio West in Mullingar but for the moment, listeners have to tolerate telephonic audio quality. There are links with the disco event in the nearby North Star Hotel, presumably using an FM or VHF link, and plenty of interactions with listeners. Other voices heard are Colm Mooney, Gareth Scully, Bryan Lambert, Clem Francis, Suzanne Duffy, Keith Shanley and Rachel Walsh (aka Fionnuala Sweeney, who went on to bigger pirates and eventually RT\u00c9 and CNN). The recording also includes occasional snippets from Radio Nova, which would close down a few days later.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240529_123301-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Charity fundraising weekend on KISS FM\" class=\"wp-image-9938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240529_123301-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240529_123301-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240529_123301-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240529_123301-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240529_123301-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Foley Street today &#8211; KISS FM was in a building left of the tree, long since demolished (photo John Walsh). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The tape was made on Sunday 16<sup>th<\/sup> March 1986, presumably from KISS FM\u2019s main transmitter on 104.1 FM although no frequency is logged. 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The highlight &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/charity-fundraising-weekend-on-kiss-fm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Charity fundraising weekend on KISS FM&#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":[536,455,432,719,718,27,153,714,715,716,242,717],"class_list":["post-9903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","tag-536","tag-anoraks-ireland","tag-bryan-lambert","tag-clem-francis","tag-colm-mooney","tag-david-baker","tag-dublin","tag-fionnuala-sweeney","tag-gareth-scully","tag-keith-shanley","tag-kiss-fm-dublin-1","tag-suzanne-duffy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Charity fundraising weekend on KISS FM - 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\/charity-fundraising-weekend-on-kiss-fm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Charity fundraising weekend on KISS FM - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over the St. Patrick\u2019s weekend 1986, Dublin station KISS FM (1985-1986) organised a charity fundraiser for the Irish Society for Autistic Children. 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