Editing Pirate radio in Ireland (section)

====Smaller stations of the late 1970s, early 1980s====
Other pirate stations in Dublin included Radio Dublin, Capitol Radio (Alternative Music station which from September 1986 had an alter ego station Nitesky 96FM), Big D, Radio City, TTTR (Country Music) and ARD (Alternative Radio Dublin - based in Drimnagh then at the Crofton Airport Hotel in Whitehall). Amongst the DJs at the Big D were Chris Wilkinson, Dennis Murray and Dj Shagnasty. Well-known names on radio and television that went through these smaller stations include [[Marty Whelan]], [[Gerry Ryan]], [[Dave Fanning]], John Paul, [[Ian Dempsey]] and Robbie Irwin.
North Dublin Community Radio (a forerunner to [[Near fm 90.3|NEAR FM]]), was a local community-based radio station, which operated in the Northside of Dublin broadcasting on 100&nbsp;MHz FM and on 1008&nbsp;kHz AM.<ref>[http://www.irishpirates.com/audio/wmv/ndcr.mp3 NDCR.mp3] www.irishpirates.com.</ref>