Peter Mulryan

But when the super pirate stations embraced FM, well, it's like the radio waves of Ireland turned from black and white to technicolour.

A new sound for a new decade.

Change was in the air for Eamon Cook too.

The trail was blazed by Radio Dublin, run by Eamon Cook from a terraced house in Inchicore.

He was leaving his home on Starsfield Road and taking everything, including Radio Dublin, with him to a new building not far away.

Audiences and advertisers have followed.

Radio Dublin showed that there was money to be made and that anyone could make it.

It was illegal, of course.

Cook's new home at 58 Inchacore Road was a ramshackle detached Victorian bungalow on its own grounds with plenty of room for the 100-foot transmitter aerial to tower over the property.

The place was a little on the rough side with big holes in the floor.

The same floor was also seemingly the main ashtray in the house.

This description of Radio Dublin was written by a visiting English journalist in 1981.

The station looked like a local hangout for all and sundry.

Some of the guys in the living room were throwing burning bits of paper at each other.

There were tiles missing off the roof, the place was in absolute bits.

A lot of the house was derelict.

This is Neil Hayes, the Radio Dublin DJ we met in our last episode, together with his photographs of Jimmy Savile.

The transmitter room was secure, and it was secured by a big steel door.

That was also his bedroom, wasn't it?

That was his bedroom.