Radio Empathy Raided 1974, the Irish Pirate Radio Archives Collection

 In July 2021, The Irish Pirate Radio Archive at Dublin City University were delighted to accept the archives of 'Anoraks Ireland'. They had been meticulously gathered by Paul Davidson who ran 'Anoraks Ireland' for over a decade. The archives are extensive covering a golden era of Irish pirate radio (1980's) and shed light on both the social and broadcasting history of Ireland. The archives includes station advertising rates cards, correspondence with stations, detailed questionnaires, comprehensive bandscans, newspaper clippings, photographs of both studios and transmitters and over 2,500 tape recordings. Over the next couple of months we will bring you snippets of this extensive archive to give you a flavour of both its breath and depth and what pirate radio was like in Ireland in the 1970's and 1980's. 

In the 1970's one of Dublin hobby pirate stations was Radio Empathy, in 1974 the station was raided and closed. This is an article from The Sunday World newspaper that includes a report of the court case.

In the Irish Free Radio Movement's magazine 'The Medium' (issue Number 4) published in Autumn 1974, they published their own report on the court case involving Radio Empathy.