A century of Irish radio has delivered wonderful entertainment, social change and political upheaval.  In 1926 the first official radio stat...

Tralee has a long radio history in one guise or another. The first mention of a ‘Radio Tralee’ was in June 1939 when a loudspeaker system ...

                     

The history of Irish pirate radio is diverse and over the years a number of fanzines were published to promote the various pirates. This is ...

On any given Sunday on the Dublin airwaves in 2020, the listener is treated to a melange of radio stations delivering a wide variety of sp...

The Irish Free State authorised 2RN to become the State’s official radio station and on January 1st 1926 it would officially go ...

There were a number of umbrella groups formed to support and lobby for free radio in Ireland. One of the earliest was an Irish branch of...

There were many reasons for the explosion of pirate radio in Ireland in the 1970's and 1980’s. One of the main reasons was the inc...

Through the pandemic of 2020, radio has proved to be vital in both delivering information and entertainment. Radio is still king. But a...

The mere nature of pirate radio broadcasting was that you were breaking the law. The authorities did  not want you on air and to effect yo...