Most obscure radio program you remember

Des Cahill in the Gaybo slot was pretty grim.

Live line 1.45 to 3pm Monday to Friday 😁

Bit of nostalgia here from Henry Kelly. He mentions Michael Dillon's cattle mart reports, which from memory followed the evening news bulletin on Radio Eireann.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishman-s-diary-1.908725

Radio Ulster still does that as part of Good Morning Ulster, example here at 24:50. I often thought that along with the death notices, it would be a service appreciated by some local radio listeners. Maybe some local stations do mart reports?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001285k

Some local station have farming news, usually as part of their main evening news bulletins. They don't include Mart reports AFAIK.

We all used listen aswell

The Two Pete's Talk Rubbish - on Phantom, with Pete Reid and Sinister Pete and in particular their "nuts of the world" (can't remember the exact title) segment.

Glad to see it has an obscure Boards mention back in 2010 - https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2055898642/2-petes-talk-rubbish

The Openline with Greg Merriman in the late ‘90’s….

it was on around midnight or 1am. You could listen in on a good night and wake up the next morning in pain from laughing… not always brilliant but when they got it right…it was unscripted genius.

Tony the monkeychild and Mary Schocolattes were two hilarious contributors… I think Jim Nugent aka Jim-Jim played both but I’m open to correction…

I did a night shift back in 1999 and along with obscure music there was fascinating details and discussion of various internet sites from the newly discovered 'world wide web' .I think it might have being Gerry Wilson presenting mad to think of it at 3 and 4 am

Gerry Wilson’s World Web Radio. I always remember someone called in to say “I’m the one who sent you 8 megabytes of WAVs” (sound files). My brother was listening in one night when someone sent him an MP3 and he had no software to play it!

Tthe Rambling House sunday nights in early 90s on Radio Kerry was great fun.

'Round the house and mind the dresser Maura ' how could you ever forget it .I wonder I suppose they are all dead now from that era!!

Back around 1980 Radio Dublin had a second service 'Channel 2' broadcasting on FM only. At the time, the medium wave stations had a far bigger audience (until Chris Cary arrived and set up Nova). Channel 2 started as an alternative service with specialised programmes such as a heavy metal show, my own radio anoraks programme, and 'Live Jive'.

Live Jive was a programme of bootleg gig recordings, many recorded at Dublin venues using a state of the art walkman discretely worn by the programme presenter, with a left and right microphone wired down each sleeve of his jacket. He also operated a bootleg shop on Mary Street where a vast range of concert recordings could be purchased (mostly on cassette, but also some vinyl). It became so well known that often reps of bands that had played in Dublin a few days before, would call in and ask if there was a recording made that they could purchase.

I remember the programme produced a world exclusive copy of the U2 live album 'Under a blood red sky' , before it was released. The album consisted of tracks recorded on an American tour and the track list was reported on before it was released. As it happened, a gig in Red Rock Colorado was broadcast on radio by a local FM station and Live Jive obtained a copy, so the album was produced on cassette using the official track listing. The vast collection of material available also included vinyl copies of outtake tracks and alternative versions from various artists, that didn't make it on to official albums. In the days long before the internet, it took good personal connections in the recording industry to get hold of a lot of the recorded material that was used on the programme.

It was certainly one of the more unusual programmes I ever heard, presented by I think, Paul Richards?

So i heard a Garda car being sent to a petrol station on the quays while a robbery was taking place...... which turned out to be just someone using the ATM.

Another night I listened as they prepared to raid a brothel.....

In the early 80s Bord Gais and some taxi companies operated around 87mhz. In the mid 90s I had an airband scanner which used to pick up Harcourt Street garda control and cars on around 465mhz and the local garda stations operated around 165mhz. Made interesting listening especially during the 90s when joyriding was big. I remember one chase that started in southside Dublin, went through the city centre and out by Fairview and ended in Howth. One garda commented on the radio that someone should inform Hollyhead police that they were coming their way!! It also was able to pick up portable house telephones, which used to make for mostly boring listening, apart from discovering that a neighbour was having an affair with a member of some club that she was involved in!! I also heard one or two calls from people enquiring about escort services.

Remember Billy Connolly making a joke that when he was a young lad he remembers the family sitting around the radio listening to the snooker! 😄

Haha yes I do

Dear Frankie

radio stations used to broadcast LIVE night clubs back in the 80s / 90s - the Dublin Superpirates such as Sunshine and some of the post 1988 local stations

I remember bout 20 years ago or maybe more there was a show on Radio One called something like the Mackey and Murray show. The Mackey was Liam Mackey of hot press and football writing, Murray not quite sure but from one of the papers anyway I think. Was an entertaining magazine type show, Mackey in particular was very good and better than at least 80% of the people I've heard in broadcasting through the years.

I remember this show well. Eamon Dunphy rang up on a number of occasions. The theme tune was Richard Claydermans (how 80s!) version of Rhapsody in Blue.

You’d often hear phones ringing in the background and although it was quite ramshackle at times they never seemed stuck for callers (and this being 2am on a Friday night/Saturday morning).

A few years back I enquired about the whereabouts of Pat Jennings on the sadly now defunct radiowavesforum site and got a rather cryptic ‘why do you want to know this information’ response from a punter who did go on to say that Pat lives in London now.

For what’s it’s worth I have fond memories of the show which I think wrapped up in late 1987.