On this edition of Wireless on Flirt FM, Independent Broadcasters of Ireland protest against government broadcasting policy, west Cork gets a new community station West Cork FM, World Radio Day on Limu Radio in Finland and from the Irish …
Programme #27 (February 2019)
On this edition of he show, the Craol community news service explained by Ciarán Murray of Near FM. A report from Paula Healy at Salon de la Radio – the European Radio Show in Paris. Nails Mahoney and Tracey …
Programme #26 (January 2019)
This edition edition of Wireless is a special programme about the Irish pirate radio audio archive which went live on December 24th. We feature a selection of archival recordings and jingles and bring you the perspectives of listeners, broadcasters and …
Programme #25 (December 2018)
In this edition of Wireless on Flirt FM, we hear how the Grassroots Radio project is helping a new community radio station in Cork. Brian Greene reports from the recent International Radio Festival in Malta and radio activist and …
‘You’re playing senior hurling now!’ In the deep end at Century Radio
Century Radio – 100.3 in Dublin and various FM, 1143 AM in Dublin and Cork
I heard the launch of Century Radio on September 4th 1989 on a tinny transistor in my grandmother’s house in Dublin. After all the …
Programme #24 (November 2018)
It’s been a big month for pirate radio history in Ireland. We report on the donation of the Irish Pirate Radio Archive to DCU and also bring you a flavour of the pirate radio meet-up in Dublin, where we recorded …
Programme #23 (October 2018)
On this edition of Wireless on Flirt FM, we have big news about the Irish Pirate Radio Archive which is heading to Dublin City University. We hear from Nick Richards who was involved in the ‘border blaster’ pirate KISS …
Into the licensed era: Horizon Radio in Bray
By the autumn of 1989 I was pretty despondent about radio, having filled my teenage summers with pirate bliss only to see it snuffed out when the sector was finally regulated. There were a lot of unemployed former pirates in …
Programme #22 (September 2018)
On the first programme of series 3 of Wireless on Flirt FM we have a distinctively pirate theme. Broadcast historian Eddie Bohan tells us about his travelling pirate radio exhibition currently running in Galway and Liam Byrnediscusses the history …
Programme #21 (July 2018)
On this edition of Wireless, we report from the Summer School on Transnational Radio History held recently at the University of Luxembourg and reminisce about that tiny country’s greatest ever radio export. The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland launches a new …