Wireless Flirt is on the move to a new website at http://wirelessflirt.radio.ie/. That’s where you’ll find the monthly programme Wireless on Flirt FM which is now also available as a podcast. We’ll also continue our station profiles and historical items as time allows. The programme will also be reposted on Mixcloud from Flirt FM’s archive. With thanks […]
Wireless on Flirt FM – programme 31
On the final edition of Wireless in this series, Ralph McGarry interviews the manager of Community Radio Kilkenny City Declan Gibbons on 40 years of community radio in the city. Brian Greene reports from the Hearsay International Audio Festival in Co. Limerick and we look back at a highlight of Wireless from this season of […]
Wireless on Flirt FM – programme 30
On the May 2019 edition of Wireless on Flirt FM, Chair of the Oireachtas Communications Committee Hildegarde Naughton tells us about the latest reprieve for RTÉ’s long wave radio service. Eddie Bohan’s new book on Irish radio history is launched and we reminisce about Louth pirate station Boyneside Radio with former presenter and radio enthusiast […]
Wireless on Flirt FM – programme 29
On the April 2019 edition of Wireless on Flirt FM, Fianna Fáil communications spokesperson Timmy Dooley tells us about his party’s proposal for a Public Service Broadcast Fund to support commercial radio. Historian Eddie Bohan discusses his new book ‘A Century of Ireland Radio 1900-2000’. We also profile the country’s two longest-running community and institutional […]
Wireless on Flirt FM – programme 28
On this edition of Wireless on Flirt FM, Independent Broadcasters of Ireland protest against government broadcasting policy, west Cork gets a new community station West Cork FM, World Radio Day on Limu Radio in Finland and from the Irish pirate radio audio archive an interview with radio enthusiast Ian Biggar.
Wireless on Flirt FM – programme 27
On the February edition of the show, the Craol community news service explained by Ciarán Murray of Near FM. A report from Paula Healy at Salon de la Radio – the European Radio Show in Paris. Nails Mahoney and Tracey Lee of OnAirCoach from the International Radio Festival in Malta and more from the www.pirate.ie archive.
Wireless on Flirt FM – programme 26
On the January 2019 edition we bring you a special programme about the Irish pirate radio audio archive which went live on December 24th. We feature a selection of archival recordings and jingles and bring you the perspectives of listeners, broadcasters and technicians.
Wireless on Flirt FM / programme 25
In the December edition of Wireless on Flirt FM, we hear how the Grassroots Radio project is helping a new community radio station in Cork. Brian Greene reports from the recent International Radio Festival in Malta. And radio activist and academic Gloria Khamkar responds to David Lloyd’s controversial report about community radio in the UK. […]
‘You’re playing senior hurling now!’ – in the deep end at Century Radio
Century Radio – 100.3 in Dublin and various FM, 1143 AM in Dublin and Cork By John Walsh 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 hype about the new national radio station, it was something of an anti-climax: […]
Wireless on Flirt FM – programme 24
It’s been a big month for pirate radio history in Ireland. We report on the donation of the Irish Pirate Radio Archive to DCU and also bring you a flavour of the pirate radio meet-up in Dublin, where we recorded oral histories of pirate memories. Eoin Ronayne tells us his involvement with the pirate WLR, […]
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