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Trish Malone

Trish Malone

Guest on RTÉ's Pirate Predator podcast; former Dublin teenager fascinated by pirate radio in the 1970s-80s

May 25, 2026

8:28
It's kind of like a contemporaneous rolling history of Radio Dublin
8:34
Yeah, and, uh, I suppose modern kids looking at this would scratch their heads, but, uh, I used to troll through the, 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.
8:48
It's, it is quite interesting.
8:49
People took to the streets to support it.
8:52
There's a letter to the press that compares the people who ran pirate radios to fascists and communists, so it's, [laughs] it, it was interesting
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11:39
The, the process of grooming and the steps along the way, and ultimately culminating in, in him taking children to bed naked and, and penetrating, that culminated in, for instance, carrying Siobhan and I in, in both arms naked into his bedroom
11:58
You could have one of the DJs on air, the telephonists are on the phone, and if you happened to go in or your friend happened to go in, he'd say, "I have to show you something upstairs." They weren't aware

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