Lawrence John's Pirate Stations

Declan A Walsh

Lawrence John is a name that crops up a lot when looking at archives of Irish pirate radio stations during the 1980s, particularly Dublin. As you can see below, he resurfaced again on the pirate scene from the late 1990s to the mid 2000s. I think I may have come across him once or twice in the 1980s. Here are the stations that I am aware of from looking at archives. Unless otherwise stated, they were from the 1980s and were Dublin pirates.

Radio Leinster

Radio Nova

Sunshine Radio/101

Kiss AM/FM (from Parnell Square - not Radio Nova's sister station Kiss FM)

Q102

Cara 95/Heartbeat FM

Kiss FM (Monaghan Town as John Friday)

Energy 106 (1997-2005 - initially near Belfast and then Monaghan from 1998)

Do you know of any other pirates that Lawrence John was with?

Declan A Walsh

I found another Monaghan Town based pirate that Lawrence John was involved with in 1989. It was called FM100 and was run by him from the former studios of another Monaghan pirate called K.I.T.S. From what I read, FM100 may initially have used the studio of Belfast pirate B-96. It is possible that he may have had some involvement with that pirate too (there is a picture of him in B-96's studio in 1989), but I cannot be sure about that. I wonder did Lawrence John, who was from Belfast after all, have previous involvement in Belfast pirates before he turned up on Dublin pirates.

Declan A Walsh

I see as well that Lawrence John was doing voiceovers in 1989 on long running Monaghan pirate Radio Star Country. It does not mention if he actually presented on it. I wonder did he do much voiceover work for other pirates.

Declan A Walsh

i found another Dublin pirate that Lawrence was with! It was Capitol Radio from 1982, the short-lived album-oriented station.