This show is a bumper special edition of Wireless on Monday to end the current series. Boss of the Dublin rock station Radio Nova, Kevin Branigan, looks back and forward and we also remember the original Nova of the …
Community Radio Day 2017
Programme #10 (June 2017)
On this edition of Wireless on Flirt FM 101.3, we hear about the new AM licence awarded to the legendary UK station Radio Caroline which defined pirate radio from the 1960s on. Our station manager Paula Healy reports from …
Programme #9 (May 2017)
On this edition of Wireless on Flirt FM, we hear from Jack Byrne, founding member of the long-established community station Near FM in Dublin. We find out about new Dublin pirate station Energy Power AM (1395 kHz) and radio …
Programme #8 (April 2017)
On this edition of Wireless, RTÉ’s long wave radio service gets another reprieve, this time until 2019, and the Irish in Britain are to get their own replacement DAB+ service. We ask radio activist Brian Greene what it all …
Programme #7 (March 2017)
On this edition of Wireless we meet Flirt FM manager Paula Healy and hear her views on community radio in Ireland and her plans for the station’s future. Simon Maher of 8radio.com tells us why Ireland needs an alternative music …
Programme #6 (February 2017)
On this edition of Wireless, we talk to Richard Logue in London about the campaign to keep RTÉ Radio 1 on long wave for the diaspora in Britain. Dr Andrew Ó Baoill of NUI Galway explains why the Trump presidency …
Programme #5 (January 2017)
On this edition of Wireless on Flirt FM, historian Eddie Bohan tells us about the development of legal independent radio in Ireland since 1989. We profile the new Galway Irish language station Raidió na dTreabh. From Barcelona we hear …
Programme #4 (December 2016)
On this edition of Wireless we meet some of those involved with radio in Limerick. Radio academic Dr Rosemary Day of Mary Immaculate College discusses the history of community radio in Ireland. We meet Ray Burke of student station Wired …
Programme #3 (November 2016)
On this edition of Wireless, broadcast historian Eddie Bohan tells us about the history of Irish pirate radio from 1916 until the infamous closedowns of 1988. New York-based radio academic and activist John Anderson discusses the background to pirate radio …