If you didn’t want to listen to RTE Radio 1 or 2 up to the end of the 1980s, the only option you had was to listen to the pirate radio stations.











Pictured: Brian Greene, host of Pirate.ie and the famous Radio Caroline ship, which was launched from the port of Greenore by Ronan O’ Rahilly in 1964 and changed the radio landscape for decades in both UK and Ireland.



The most famous of these stations was Radio Caroline. The station broadcast to the UK from 1964 and was seen as core to the swinging 60s counter cultural movement in promoting music that engaged young people. The station itself launched many mainstream broadcasting careers. Based on ships off the coast in the north sea, Radio Caroline actually launched by an Irishman from the port of Greenore.







There were many other pirate radio stations and some broadcast to locations up and down the M1. To discuss this, I am joined by Brian Greene, radio enthusiast and domain host of radio.ie



We start off the episode with the sounds of pirate radio stations which existed between Dublin and Louth in the 1980s (along the M1)- Telstar, Sunsine, Community Radio Fingal and Boyneside.