on April 27, 2006 at 03:55 PM caitriona said:

was that when you formed the ability to identify dead transistors?


on April 27, 2006 at 05:32 PM Martin said:

That very time.


on April 27, 2006 at 07:15 PM An tInnealtór Fánach said:

A Mháirtín a Chara,
Is soiléir nach mbeidh ár leithéid arís ann.

Beir bua,
Mícheál O hÉalaithe
Gaeltacht Meán Uilbheach


on May 01, 2006 at 11:57 AM isabel Healy said:

Ah the days! Even that essential part of broadcasting, the Honda 50, was called 'Juliette" after the Italian who won the Eurovision Song Contest that year - the singer not the song. Biscuit tins, Honda 50s and our mother's housekeeping apparatus. One day Radio Juliette had to go off air during a broadcast because I had been told go to tell the 'broadacast engineers' that "Mum wants the extension lead for the vacuum cleaner".

But Saor Radio wasn't all fun. The project was so secretive that not everyone knew who done it and some got the sceal wrong when they saw a group of stronseiris huddled around being secretive. There was a dispute over cement in the West at the time and one night a concrete block came crashing through the window of the local pub where the crew were ag ol, with the cry "If ye want cimint - we'll bury ye in cimint".


on May 31, 2010 at 04:52 PM Cormac O' Conare said:

Dia duit,

I'm from Ros Muc and my father (RIP) work with saor radio and after with Radio Na Gealtachta. I hear so many stories about the first weekend of the radio. Great stories. The work you guys done that time was a giant step in saving the Irish language.
Thanks,

Cormac


on September 15, 2011 at 01:44 PM Cormac Sheridan said:

Hi Martin,
Tim Robinson refers to this little slice of broadcasting history in his new book: 'Connemara - A Little Gaelic Kingdom' (p.99). And Mícheál [and Isabel of course] are first cousins of mine. A talented bunch, those Healys :)

Cormac


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