Photo courtesy of Eoin O’Hagan, Scariff Bay Community Radio

Wireless on Flirt FM is back for its 5th series. The September edition contains an interview with broadcast historian Eddie Bohan on the large number of unlicensed transmitters operated by …

The late Pat Herbert with radio producer Helen Shaw at the Hurdy Gurdy Museum (photo courtesy of Joe Guilfoyle).

We heard the sad news recently that Pat Herbert, curator of the Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio in Howth, had …

Radio in the garden during the fine weather of the June bank holiday weekend 2020.

In the June 2020 edition of Wireless we caught up with community and alternative radio stations across Ireland and found out how they were coping …

Declan Meehan (left) with the late Ronan O’Rahilly at the Radio Caroline North 40th Anniversary Convention in the Isle of Man.

In the May 2020 edition of Wireless we consider the legacy of Ronan O’Rahilly, the founder of the UK …

Beautiful vintage radio dial, as spotted in Terryglass, Co. Tipperary.

In the April 2020 edition of Wireless we talk to British radio activist and journalist Chrissy Brand about how radio in the UK is dealing with COVID-19 and also about …

Radio en el jardín … Garden radio

Here are the original audio clips, mostly in Spanish, from the last edition of Wireless about how European radio is dealing with the crisis. We thank José Emilio Pérez Martínez and the Red …

Radio in the garden, well within the 2km limit from home, and tuned to Flirt FM 101.3 of course.

In this second special edition of Wireless to mark the COVID-19 crisis, we look in depth at how radio in France, …

The banner image for the #trustradiochooseradio hashtag on Twitter, a campaign by Independent Broadcasters of Ireland to highlight the importance of radio during the COVID-19 crisis, and the threat to the sector.

In this special edition of the programme, we …

In this month’s edition of the show we feature two new temporary community radio projects in our part of the west of Ireland, Loughrea Community Radio in Co. Galway and X-PO Folk Radio in Co. Clare. We also learn more …

Panel from left: Aodh Ó Coileáin, Fiona McGarry, John Walsh and Paula Healy

There’s been a lot of discussion of late about the threat to the future of public service broadcasting and public service media in general so this month …