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The recent deaths of RTÉ broadcasting giants Gay Byrne, Marian Finucane and Larry Gogan prompted an enormous outpouring of sadness from the public, reflecting the genuine fondness and respect that people felt for them. Coming in …
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 …
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 …
I loved AM radio during the pirate era and still listen to it today despite the growing challenges as stations pull the plug and electrical interference increases. In a pre-internet era, I always liked how AM created a better sense …