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 …
Programme #2 (November 2016)
Programme #1 (September 2016)
Welcome to the fhe first edition of the new radio series about radio, Wireless on Flirt FM 101.3. Broadcast on September 5th 2016 it included an interview with Brendan Balfe about the BAI radio event as part of Culture …