Only the strong survive

On May 18th 2015 it will be 30 years since my first radio show. Now I don’t have a date for when I first fell in love with radio but it preceded 1985 by a good bit. Thinking of those early days of radio I think of my record box – I didn’t have many…

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Ripping the radio news

Does anyone remember when Eamonn Cooke & Radio Dublin would rip the 8am news off RTE Radio 1. This was in the days before Morning Ireland. The news pips would chime and Radio Dublin would take the news feed from RTE while Nova & Sunshine were staffing Newsrooms with NUJ Journalists. At the end of…

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Gender issues for Microphones

Women are under represented in radio. In Ireland less than 1 in 4 voices in news / current affairs is female. One possible contributor and untested reason for this is that the radio studio is not adjusted to the female voice. How could this be? Warning, here comes some sweeping generalisations. Men build radio stations…

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