My name is Ann Nolan and I am an employee here in Community Radio Kilkenny City and how I got involved, I was sitting in a friend’s car one day and we happened to be listening to Community Radio and he said I should enquire about it because I have…
I have always had a great interest and passion for Radio in particular Local Radio, and can fondly remember the early days of Local Radio in Kilkenny. In fact one of the best presents I ever received was an Internet Radio from my wife. Literally the sounds of the world…
Its hard to credit that it began in 1970, at Loreto Private School (long since defunct ) when Mother Demarillac told me “ Ask your Mother to telephone me, we have RTE Radio coming here next week, ask can you go on the programme. Her confidence in picking me for…
Tommy Dowd joined Community Radio Kilkenny City in 2011, when he saw an advertisement in the local paper about Community Radio Kilkenny City looking for presenters. Tommy started on Music for all on a Sunday evening. He also presented That Pop Feeling show, where he counted down the Community…
Nickey Brennan has been involved with Community Radio Kilkenny City (CRKC) since 2009 as a member of the Kilkenny Community Communications Co-operative Society Board (until September 2017) and as a broadcaster with the station. During that period Nickey engaged directly with the BAI to secure a number of temporary licences,…
Radio Eireann and the BBC Light Programme were the only stations until Radio Luxemburg came along with a totally different style of radio. Pop music came along and then Radio Caroline and now there were stations springing up all over the place, catering for young people for the first time.…
Maurice O'Connor is a Dub who moved to Kilkenny with his wife and three children in 2005. In November 2012, he took voluntary severance from a senior management role in ESB in Dublin and since then has thrown himself into community and voluntary activity in Kilkenny and nationally. In the…
It was always Rhythm and Roots with KAYB, with such a passion for music its no surprise to learn that i started on this fantastic journey in 1982 as a pirate radio presenter with K.C.R. in a hay-barn on the Ballycallan Road. I used to cycle my old high Nelly…
Born and bred in Kilkenny, I have spent a number of years living in other parts of our beautiful country. I completed my theology degree in Belfast and worked with the Methodist church in Cork for a year. Later on, I went to Dublin for two years to complete…
[caption id="attachment_193" align="aligncenter" width="150"] Fr Willie Purcell[/caption] Fr. Willie Purcell is the parish priest of Clara Kilkenny; he also works as the national vocations coordinator and immigrant field officer for the Irish Conference of Catholic Bishops. Fr. Willie is qualified in media broadcasting and communications and has worked as a…
