{"id":474992,"date":"2026-01-07T16:29:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?p=474992"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:29:54","slug":"irish-pirate-closedowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?p=474992","title":{"rendered":"Irish pirate closedowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year to all from Pirate.ie, the online archive of Irish pirate radio. On New Year&#8217;s Eve 1988, dozens of pirate stations across Ireland fell silent in advance of the new broadcasting legislation to licence independent radio. Many of the pirates were audible to listeners on the west coast of the UK and occasionally further afield. You can listen here to dozens of recordings of that historic day in Irish radio: <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/tags\/1988-closedowns\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/tags\/1988-closedowns\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Info via BDXC via WOR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year to all from Pirate.ie, the online archive of Irish pirate radio. On New Year&#8217;s Eve 1988, dozens of pirate stations across Ireland fell silent in advance of the new broadcasting legislation to licence independent radio. Many of the pirates were audible to listeners on the west coast of the UK and occasionally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?p=474992\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irish pirate closedowns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5CD59-1Zza","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":463479,"url":"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?p=463479","url_meta":{"origin":474992,"position":0},"title":"Irish pirate radio audio archive","author":"Administrator","date":"June 12, 2020 20:32","format":false,"excerpt":"The Irish pirate radio audio archive was lucky to recently receive a donation of hundreds of cassettes belonging to the British radio enthusiast Leon Tipler who made valuable recordings of the Irish pirate scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. 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