Ireland

The fifteenth annual Cork’s 96FM’s Giving for Living Radiothon has ended with a total of €429,597. It brings the cumulative raised so far by Radiothons run by the Wireless Ireland station since 2008 to more than €6.1 million. Listeners held fundraising events right across Cork City and County including “Coffee Breaks” and a “Paddlethon”. Bus […] […]

Over 5,300 RTÉ radio recordings from the 1927 – 1970s are now available online with rare insight into the voices, sounds and topics from the past. Highlights include: Opening of the Cork radio station 6CK (1927) Maud Gonne Recalls Evictions (1947) Provincial News Round Up (1957) Sean McBride jokes about the merits of radio (Wexford […] […]

Raidió Rí-Rá is planning to celebrate its recent run of FM broadcasts with a special schedule for its final Saturday and Sunday this weekend. The youth chartstation have been broadcasting each weekend across Dublin, Limerick, Cork, and Galway since the 13th of March. To date, special guest presenters have included Sinéad Ní Uallacháin (RTÉ, Beo […] […]

Newstalk has introduced a new logo, visual identity and brand tagline for the first time in 15 years. The new look comes following significant audience research and brand development work with agency partner Dynamo. The logo is made up of two fonts, which the station says plays on the two elements of the Newstalk brand […] […]

Kare Plus is the new sponsor of Today FM’s afternoon show with Ray Foley. The sponsorship will see Kare Plus become an integral part of Ray Foley’s show through stings, promotions and cross station digital display. Ray Foley’s afternoon show has added 26,000 listeners in the past year and continues to be the highest listened […] […]

Former Today FM and iRadio presenter Fergal D’Arcy is joining RTÉ 2FM. […]