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Inishowen Community Radio
Inishowen Community Radio (ICR FM) was a local radio station broadcasting on the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal in Ireland. The station was one of three in the county. The station was initially granted a five-year licence which was renewed in September 2007 by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland for an additional ten years. ICR was based in Carndonagh and employed four full-time staff as well as six part-time in addition to unpaid volunteers. The station broadcast seven days a week and under the terms of its licence consisted of 50% music and 50% talk, and like most community and local stations covered a wide range of music including dance, traditional and classical along with its own news team. ICR's main competitor was the local commercial station Highland Radio, which is based in Letterkenny and broadcasts throughout the north of the county. ICR FM stopped broadcasting on 17 October 2012 at 11.15am. However, Inishowen Live launched in 2013 with many of ICR's presen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inishowen
Inishowen () is a peninsula in the north of County Donegal in Ireland. Inishowen is the largest peninsula on the island of Ireland. The Inishowen peninsula includes Ireland's most northerly point, Malin Head. The Grianan of Aileach, a ringfort that served as the royal seat of the over-kingdom of Ailech, stands at the entrance to the peninsula. Towns and villages The main towns and villages of Inishowen are: * Ballyliffin, Buncrana, Bridgend, Burnfoot, Burt * Carndonagh, Carrowmenagh, Clonmany, Culdaff * Dunaff * Fahan * Glengad, Gleneely, Greencastle * Malin, Malin Head, Moville, Muff * Redcastle * Shrove * Quigley's Point * Urris Geography Inishowen is a peninsula of 884.33 square kilometres (218,523 acres), situated in the northernmost part of the island of Ireland. It is bordered to the north by the Atlantic Ocean, to the east by Lough Foyle, and to the west by Lough Swilly. It is joined at the south to the rest of the island and is mostly in County Don ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Donegal
County Donegal ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county of the Republic of Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster and is the northernmost county of Ireland. The county mostly borders Northern Ireland, sharing only a small border with the rest of the Republic. It is named after the town of Donegal (town), Donegal in the south of the county. It has also been known as County Tyrconnell or Tirconaill (), after Tyrconnell, the historical territory on which it was based. Donegal County Council is the local government in the Republic of Ireland, local council and Lifford is the county town. The population was 167,084 at the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census. Name County Donegal is named after the town of Donegal (town), Donegal () in the south of the county. It has also been known by the alternative name County Tyrconnell or Tirconaill (, meaning 'Land of Conall Gulban, Conall'). The latter was its official name between 1922 and 1927. This is in reference to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcasting Commission Of Ireland
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI; ) is a former broadcasting authority which regulated both public and commercial broadcasting sector in Ireland. It was established in 2009, effectively replacing the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) (). It was dissolved in 2023 and its staff and functions were transferred to a new body entitled . History *The Authority came into being under the Broadcasting Act 2009. *The Independent Radio and Television Commission (IRTC) was established under the terms of the Radio and Television Act 1988. This act allowed the first legal stations not operated by RTÉ, the national broadcaster, to come into existence. Prior to this commercial broadcasting in Ireland had been unlicensed and illegal. Despite this a thriving pirate radio scene existed. The Act sought to bring this under a regulatory framework. *From 1989 onwards the commission began to license Independent Local Radio stations. It also sought to introduce a national radio and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carndonagh
Carndonagh (; ) is a town on the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland, close to Trawbreaga Bay. It is the site of the Carndonagh stones. The Irish name, ''Carn Domhnach'', means "the cairn or mound of the church". Amenities The town is laid out around a central square, or Diamond, and is dominated by its Romanesque Revival Catholic chapel. It is home to 6 national schools including St. Patrick's GNS and BNS, Glentogher NS, Craigtown NS, Donagh NS, St. Bridget's NS and Carndonagh Community School, formerly the largest community school in the Republic of Ireland. Carndonagh is home to a number of musicians, artists and writers and to the Inishowen Carnival Group, Carndonagh Musical Society, Brass Band, and the Inishowen Gospel Choir (both international performers). History Carndonagh railway station opened on 1 July 1907, but finally closed on 2 December 1935. Transport TFI Local Link, runs a number of public transport routes for the area: 952 (Carndonagh/Derry) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letterkenny
Letterkenny ( , meaning "hillside of the O'Cannons"), nicknamed the Cathedral Town, is a large town in County Donegal, Ireland, on the River Swilly in the north-west of Ulster. Along with the nearby city of Derry, Letterkenny is a regional economic gateway for the north-west of Ireland. Letterkenny began as a market town at the start of the 17th century, during the Plantation of Ulster. A castle once stood near where the Cathedral of St Eunan and St Columba, County Donegal's only Catholic Church, Catholic cathedral, stands today. Letterkenny Castle, built in 1625, was located south of Mt Southwell on Castle Street. County Donegal's largest third-level institution, Atlantic Technological University, Atlantic Technological University (ATU) Letterkenny, is located in the town, as are St Eunan's College, Highland Radio, and a Hinduism, Hindu temple. Letterkenny was also the original home of Oatfield (confectioner), Oatfield Sweet Factory, a confectionery manufacturer; the factory c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio In Ireland
Licensed radio broadcasting in Ireland is one element of the wider media of Ireland, with 85% of the population listening to a licensed radio broadcasting service on any given day. History Ireland as a radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian inventor and the father of long-distance radio transmission, had a significant connection to Ireland as a descendent of the influential Jameson family, and the country played a crucial role in his early radio experiments. The earliest known radio broadcast in Ireland took place on 6 July 1898, when Marconi set up a wireless telegraphy link between Rathlin Island and Ballycastle. This communication system was established on behalf of Lloyd's. In 1907 Marconi International Marine Communication Company the world's first transatlantic wireless telegraphy service in the world in Clifden. The station conducted the first successful transmission of the first commercial wireless messages across the Atlantic Ocean between Clifden and Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
