Steve Conway is an Irish radio broadcaster and writer from

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. He formerly worked at the offshore

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station

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, later on the Dublin indie rock station

Phantom 105.2 TXFM (formerly Phantom 105.2) was a Dublin-based radio station, founded in 1997 as a pirate radio station. TXFM broadcast under a contract awarded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI). The station ceased broadcasting on 26 October 2016 ...

, and most recently

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, an online station operated by Phantom founder Simon Maher. Conway started his radio career on a small London rock-music pirate, South East Sound in 1985, before moving to Radio Caroline, where he rose to the positions of Head of News and Programme Controller. Initially, when he started for the first time on Radio Caroline, Conway's sole function was as a newsreader. In 1991 he was one of the final crew on board the Caroline ship Ross Revenge when it ran aground on the

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. In 1999, he returned to help relaunch Radio Caroline on satellite, moving home to Dublin and taking up a position the following year on Phantom, which at the time was a pirate. Conway had also involvement with at least two other pirates during the 1990s and the early 2000s -

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and ABC Dublin. He was Head of News during Phantom's two temporary license runs in 2003 and 2004. His main show on

, when it was on a full-time license, was Random Access on Sunday evenings. In 2009

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published Conway's memoir, ''Shiprocked: Life on the Waves with Radio Caroline''. which details his involvement with Radio Caroline in its final years at sea (1987–91) and briefly covers the relaunch of the station on satellite in 1998/9. A revised edition of ''Shiprocked'' was published in November 2014. Conway also got involved in 2010 with a licensed Dutch radio station called Radio Seagull. He worked once again with his brother Chris, who had previously worked with him in the late 1980s on Radio Caroline. Conway has also had a short story "Old Haunts" published in a 2008 anthology of Irish writing, ''Census'' , and has also contributed feature articles to the Irish music magazine ''

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''. Since 2013, Conway has worked at the online station 8Radio on a number of temporary-licensed runs on FM radio between 2013 and 2018, covering Dublin,

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and

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. For most of his time with 8Radio, Conway has presented a long-running series called "A to Z of Great Tracks", both online and on FM. He currently works in the I.T. industry and resides in

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in Ireland.

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