Who actually listens to Spirit FM?

John Bruton's daughter doing the breakfast show one day when I accidentally flicked on. You'd think he'd at least get her on to RTE.

Christian rock is all all bad, Black Sabbath have quite a few decent tracks.

I remember when there was RTE 1 and RTE 2 - jesus wept. I love that its there, I'd never listen to it myself. But I'd also love to know who does !

Get a content licence, pay the fee and Saorview is open to all. The other broadcasters would be delighted cause the costs are split - new channels make it cheaper for them,

There is an old pub/venue in Mayo called The Beaten Path.

It used to draw people from miles around in the 80s, massive spot.

Now it an evangelical church with the brilliant sign out the front

"The Beaten Path - Now only serving Jesus"

They’re set up as a registered charity and have a big donate button on their web site - with a specific donation option for UK tax payers. I’d say they’re more concerned with getting their message out there than commercial viability based on listenership.

Acoustic? In the big evangelical churches, these lads often have high end sound gear.

I’d probably go on it for a well paying cushty job in radio. I’ll play as many alive-o songs as you want.

The music is so bad on the radio that I'm often I am flicking through the channels for something half decent and end up stopping on spirit. It actually surprises me how often it happens.

I tune in from time to time and, like the other stations I listen to (Newstalk / Talksport/ RTE1/Today FM (Matt Cooper programme), I have it saved (pun intended!) in settings so its a conscious decision on my part to listen. Its evangelical for the most part but not in "your face" sort of way. Yes, I would imagine that there is a serious Power on that transmitter!😎

Taxi drivers in Dublin! I once had to ask a driver to turn it town!

His son is involved with some weird breakaway Catholic sect.

Those assorted weirdos attract publicity out of all proportion to their numbers.

Never found it too overbearing, definitely not catholic, there used to be a guy on in the early hours chuck something or other, used to listen to it in the car, quite relaxing, generally upbeat and positive station, sometimes a bit too much, Im sure I heard a reasonable almost rap like music on there, after a while I copped that it wasn't mainstream, so me sometimes, and Im not religious.

no hot black, its not a stupid argument but simple fact.

they are religious broadcasters, propaganda stations or not, they target a market that subscribes to a legitimate set of beliefs that people are entitled to subscribe to in ireland and most countries, and that, i am afraid means the right to access to the airwaves as much as any other legitimate belief system, of which the KKK isn't just like isis and other extremist groups meaning your comparison to the KKK fails.

we certainly have standards, but quite rightly that doesn't extend to preventing access to the airwaves to groups and people simply on the basis that we disagree with their views, their views have to be of a certain threshold before such a process by where they can not be given a platform can happen.

you are going to have to learn to live with the fact religious people and their beliefs exist, i don't like religion either, but while it's thankfully declining it is not going to be fully gone in our lifetimes, so you are just going to have to get over it.

I always like things to have an air of officiality, therefore can't see the appeal of evangelical Christianity. Not that I believe in god anyway but as ceremony providers the Catholic church put on a reasonable show.

No. Broadcasting has always been regulated. But it seems that some get a free pass because they're religious. I think the point is being wilfully ignored at this stage...

i get the point, it's just a non-issue and i don't care, i don't need to justify it it's that much of an irrelevance.

religious broadcasters are never going to have balanced discussion on topics that are against the teaching of those religions, and the listeners to those broadcasters don't want it anyway, so therefore there is no point in forcing something on a station and an audience that have no interest as it's wasting air time and everyone's time from those involved to the listener.

all other stations have a cross section of listeners, so it makes sense to require them to have balanced debates, to insure that cross section is represented and are able to get air time, granted the current affairs stuff should be dropped as a requirement from commercial stations anyway.

what you are looking for is unrealistic given the broadcaster and the audience involved.