Trish Malone

I was slightly obsessed with the pirate radios when I was 14 and 15.

I actually visited Radio Dublin on several occasions.

I had a crush on one of the DJs.

James Dillon was his name.

He played Sweet Sixteen for me on the radio on my 16th birthday, the highlight of my year.

Yeah, so they're all from 1978, 1979.

Yeah, and I suppose modern kids looking at this would scratch their heads, but I used to troll through the newspapers, the evening press, the Herald, and anything that was anything to do with the station for a year or two, I used to cut out.

It is quite interesting.

People took to the streets to support it.

There's a letter to the press that compares the people who ran pirate radios to fascists and communists, so it's...