Irish pirate radio former CBC and CCLR stations along with some from the DJing circuit at the time of the closures of both CBC, CCLR with the introduction of the new Radio Licensing Laws which led to the closure of many pirate radio stations in Ireland. Radio City was the first station to use and switch from the medium wave transmitter to an FM transmitter. Most of the Radio City presenters went to national and local licensed radio stations. Other notable stations that came along were radio caroline cork the longest running pirate station of them all still on corks airwaves to this
Irish pirate radio called Radio Now, providing "Underground" music from many of the "Underground" D.J.s of Cork. Limerick has had an amount of pirate radio stations over the years, The First radio stations in the region from the late '70s to mid-'80s were Capital Radio(3 months), RLWE(4 Months) , Big L(7 years),Raidio Luimni(8 Years) and Hits 954(2 years).on air and longevity in that order Other reasonably significant radio stations in the area over the years included CCR (City Centre Radio), Radio Vera, Radio Munster, SoundChannel and Mid-West Radio (a name since adopted somewhat confusingly by a legal radio station in Mayo, in the