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Welshy to join SPIN for a Friday Night Residency
SPIN has announced that they will welcome Kilkenny native Welshy to its Friday night line-up. Welshy will take to the airwaves exclusively on SPIN from 6-8pm on Fridays as he joins the station for SPIN’s Friday Night Residency with Welshy. Nick Karkazis, Assistant Programming Director, SPIN Network commented “SPIN is beyond excited to announce that Irish DJ, Welshy is next to take up the helm of the Friday Night Residency...Publication date: 12.07.2022
iRadio sponsors Mondello24 and opens new suite at Mondello Park
iRadio is sponsoring Mondello24 this weekend and opening a new suite at Mondello Park. The event on June 18th will see cyclists taking over the famed international race circuit for a full 24 hours. On the same day, iRadio launches the brand-new and exclusive iRadio Suite at Mondello Park, with iRadio at the Weekend broadcasting live from there on Saturday and Sunday...Publication date: 16.06.2022
RTÉ Radio 1 Extra to air complete dramatisation of Ulysses
The complete dramatisation of Ulysses is being broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 Extra this week. This year marks 100 years since the publication of James Joyce’s peerless modernist classic, Ulysses, and RTÉ will celebrate Bloomsday, June 16th, with a series of broadcasts, articles, and archive clips to mark the occasion via RTÉ Drama on One...Publication date: 15.06.2022
Roz Purcell and Emma Power to cover The 2 Johnnies on RTÉ 2FM
Roz Purcell and Emma Power are lined-up to host Drive on 2FM for three weeks from Monday. They’ll be covering The 2 Johnnies as they head to America to film a new RTÉ television series. Emma, who has presented The Request Show on Sunday nights since 2017 is no stranger to the show. She regularly contributes along with The 2 Johnnies in the afternoons...Publication date: 09.06.2022
Ireland’s favourite classic hit announced by Classic Hits Radio
Ireland’s Classic Hits Radio has been counting down the top 300 classic hits for Ireland over the Bank Holiday Weekend. The most popular song was revealed as Phil Collins’ ‘In the Air Tonight’. The search for Ireland’s favourite classic hit was launched last week by Gareth O’Callaghan...Publication date: 07.06.2022
New children’s podcast series planned for RTÉjr Radio
Actor Ciarán Hinds is lined up to narrate a brand-new children’s podcast series for RTÉjr Radio. The Neighbourhood is a nine-part series for younger children, and centres around a group of kids whose neighbourhood is their kingdom, a leafy place of play and imagination...Publication date: 06.06.2022
Carlow journalist Dayna Kearney is joining Beat 102-103
Beat 102-103 has hired Carlow journalist Dayna Kearney to its news team as digital and broadcast journalist. Before joining Beat, Dayna completed Beat 102-103’s Broadcast Course in conjunction with SETU and worked as the Carlow IT Student’s Union communications officer...Publication date: 05.06.2022
Cork’s 96FM Giving for Living Radiothon 2022 raises €384,000
The fourteenth annual Cork’s 96FM’s Giving for Living Radiothon has ended with a total of €383,973.68 bringing the cumulative raised so far by Radiothons run by the Wireless Group station to almost €5.8 million. Money raised this year is to support Cancer Services in Cork provided through the five local charity partners: Mercy Hospital Foundation; CUH Charity; Marymount Hospice; ARC Cancer Support House and Breakthrough Cancer Research...Publication date: 30.05.2022
Local radio stations team up with talkSPORT for cricket coverage
talkSPORT in London is teaming up with local radio stations in Ireland to offer coverage of Cricket Ireland’s home fixtures. FM104, Q102, 96FM, C103, Live 95 and LMFM (plus U105 in Belfast) will benefit from the new partnership with sister station talkSPORT to air matches against India, New Zealand and South Africa...Publication date: 23.05.2022
Listener finds runaway Beat presenters Niall Power and Darren Rice
A mother from Carlow has won €2,000 after she tracked down runaway Beat presenters Niall Power and Darren Rice in the Marble City. It comes following a three-day escapade during Beat’s On The Run competition. Ciara Griffin finally caught up with the elusive Beat jocks at The Parade in Kilkenny City on Wednesday afternoon in a culmination to what’s been one of the largest promotions in Beat’s nineteen-year history...Publication date: 14.05.2022