| January | 1st | The airwaves are silent as pirate stations across the country close except for Radio Dublin. | ||||||||||||||
| January | 1st | The last Morse code message sent to Sweden from Malin Marconi station. In operation since 1902, new voice communication technology had been recently installed |
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| January | 5th | The electricity and telephones are cut at Radio Dublin |
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| January | 12th | The IRTC public hearing for National Licence at the National Concert Hall |
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| January | 13th | 2FM broadcast live from the lobby of St George's Hotel Limerick |
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| January | 14th | RTE Cork Local Radio broadcast hours extended |
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| January | 20th | The High Court orders the temporary re-connection of power and telephone to Radio Dublin |
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| January | 20th | Final date for applications to the IRTC for one of the new licences |
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| January | 20th | It’s announced that Richard Branson of Virgin Radio has purchased Radio Nova International from Chris Cary |
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| January | 22nd | Gay Byrne confirms he will not be joining Century Radio |
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| January | 24th | 85 applications are made for the local commercial independent franchises. ' The great radio race' begins for the 24 licences |
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| January | Pirates that remain on air include Radio Dublin, Premier Radio, Radio City 105 and K 104. Outside Dublin there was Radio North. Zee 103, Borderside Weekend Radio, Rainbow Radio, Laser 89 and Radio Star County |
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| February | 1st | Ray Burke, the Minister announces that the new Radio and TV licences will generate 600 jobs | ||||||||||||||
| February | 1st | Eamon Cooke win another seven day extension to the injunction against the ESB and P&T for the cutting of services to the pirate station |
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| February | 2nd | Dorothy Hayden Cudahy known as the 'First Lady of Irish Radio' in the US, chosen as Grand Marshall for the New York St Patrick's Day parade. She died in August 2010 |
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| February | 3rd | Waterford newspapers announce that local pirate station Laser 1989 has gone off the air |
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| February | 6th | Radio Dublin lose their Supreme Court challenge |
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| February | 7th | Radio Dublin is raided. |
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| February | 8th | 3.05pm Radio Dublin comes back on the air |
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| February | 11th | 7.30am and Radio Dublin is raided again |
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| February | 15th | It is announced that after ten years (November 1980) Declan Meehan was returning to RTE Radio 2 |
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| February | 16th | The IRTC hold submissions conference for the two Dublin Franchises |
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| February | 20th | NIHE student radio takes to the air with an IRTC licence |
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| February | 21st | IRTC hearings held in Cork for the Cork and Kerry franchises, there are 13 bids for 4 licences |
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| February | 21st | It is announced that the late Sir Terry Wogan was joining the board of Century Radio |
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| February | 22nd | The transmission fee row between Century and RTE intensifies |
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| February | 23rd | Radio 2000 and Capital Radio win the two franchises for Dublin Next blog with cover March & April 1989 |
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