Offshore radio acquired the yacht Ceto and installed radio equipment. Unfortunately, the apparatus could not operate properly overboard, the signal being heavily affected by the climate conditions. The transmitter was then replaced by Siemens loudspeakers and the Ceto toured England "broadcasting" gramophone records interspersed by advertising. Unauthorized offshore broadcasting stations operating from ships or fixed platforms in the coastal waters of the Northern Sea first appeared in 1958. There were as many as eleven such stations in the mid-1960s. One of the most popular offshore radio broadcasts in Europe came from Radio Caroline, which developed out both of the strict broadcasting regulations
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