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Tuesday, September 28, 2004
AFTER a nail biting semi-final and final in our South African competition, Anne Cleary from Ballintra, County Donegal, won the overall prize on my mid-morning show last Monday.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004
As you have probably heard at this stage the board of directors of North West Radio have taken the decision to cease broadcasting on Friday October 1st, the last day of our existing broadcasting licence.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004
IN many ways, technology has made this world a very small place indeed.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004
As you move around the country, you really have to be impressed with the voluntary effort, and by that I mean the sheer number of people who dedicate long hours of their valuable time into organising a myriad of events, festivals, fair days, sport events, patterns, fleadhs and several other such gatherings.
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Tuesday, August 17, 2004
You know in lots of ways, I think we may have reached a crossroads in Irish society.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Starting off this week with news of an early Christmas present for all Tommy Fleming fans.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2004
LAST Sunday upwards of 40,000 people made the annual pilgrimage to Croagh Patrick, Ireland's Holy Mountain, situated outside Westport in County Mayo.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Last week I was telling you the story of why men are just happier people.
Now believe me, I didn’t invent this next piece or have anything to do with the writing of it.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
What else can I do this week except start off by saying congratulations to Aisling McKenna from Enniskillen who, after a monumental battle in our Beat the Intro quiz last week, pipped Stella O'Neill from Ballyhaunis into second place and in the process won for herself an all-expenses-paid trip to beautiful Mojacar in Southern Spain from September 21 to 28?
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Tuesday, July 06, 2004
The volume of e-mails, telephone calls and letters that have been flowing into us at the radio station since the judicial announcement last week has been absolutely overwhelming.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2004
"I am refusing the application". Those were the words uttered just after 10.30am on Wednesday June 23 in the High Court telling us that the Court had refused our application to overturn the bizarre decision of the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland to award the North West Radio licence to Ocean fm in April of 2003.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2004
I want to start off by acknowledging the many calls of congratulations that have come our way in relation to the election coverage last weekend.
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Tuesday, June 15, 2004
As you read this we are busy putting the finishing touches to a great holiday promotion that we will have on my programme next week giving you the opportunity to win a week for two people to a beautiful place called Mojacar in Southern Spain from 21st from 28th September.
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Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Since the advent of internet radio, the world really has become a small place and, as we have discovered, Irish people have made their way to the four corners of the globe.
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Tuesday, June 01, 2004
We're heading into the June Bank Holiday weekend and for us it's one of the busiest times of the year, especially this year with European and local elections just around the corner.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004
In this day and age it gets harder and harder to come up with ideas for fundraising in one's locality…
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004
This Friday the People in Need fundraising campaign comes to a head with the Telethon on RTE television.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Tommy Marren's very successful Our Town series continues again this Thursday night in the Bay View Hotel, Killybegs.
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Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Last Monday I was sitting in the studio doing my programme, during the show I spoke to a lady called Mai Lohan who was celebrating her 100th birthday.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004
AS we head towards the May Bank Holiday weekend, there is much talk in sporting circles about the clash of Mayo and New York in Gaelic Park in the first round of the championship.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004
YOU might say it’s a funny time of the year to be thinking about losing weight, but like everything else, there is no good time for starting a campaign like this.
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Tuesday, April 06, 2004
With Easter just around the corner, I want to use this opportunity to tell you about the slight changes that we will be making to our programme schedule over the holiday period.
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Tuesday, March 30, 2004
This week I want to start off by congratulating Mayo Cancer Support Group on winning a couch, a TV and a video on a promotion sponsored by Eddie and the team at Carrowkeel Furniture in Ballyvary.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004
First this week I want to wish you all a very happy St. Patrick’s Day wherever you might be celebrating it.
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Tuesday, March 09, 2004
It isn’t often that a living legend comes to these parts, but without fear of contradiction that can be said of Charlie Pride who brings his show to the Great Northern Hotel in Bundoran this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 12th, 13th and 14th March and then to the Royal Theatre, Castlebar on Tuesday, 16th.
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Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Already into the third month of the year and of course in radio life we’re
gearing towards St. Patrick’s Day and preparing for extensive coverage of parades, both at home and abroad which we will tell you more about next week.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2004
This week I’m going to do something a little bit different in that this article will consist of the following message which was sent to Tommy Marren’s programme last week from a listener in the Sligo area.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Radio business at the best of times can be busy and full of surprises. But thankfully last week a very pleasant surprise came our way when the JNLR figures were released to radio stations.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2004
This week I want to start by acknowledging the amount of phone calls, emails and indeed letters that have been coming into us supporting us with the decision to launch a judicial review into the B.C.I.’s decision about the North West Radio licence.
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Tuesday, February 03, 2004
Fresh from our ‘Music to your Ears’ weekend in Galway, where we all had a wonderful time. Exhausting but it’s only one weekend and it’s great to see so many people out for a bit of a laugh and a bit of fun.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004
IF it’s laughter you’re after, then I have the perfect tonic for you this weekend. Because one of Ireland’s funniest comedians, the man from Donegal, Conal Gallen, direct and fresh from his panto in Derry is coming to the Hawks Well Theatre, Sligo this Friday and Saturday, 30th and 31st January.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2004
It isn’t often that a legend like Charlie Pride comes to these parts, but that’s all about to change this March when international superstar, Charlie Pride takes to the stage at the Great Northern Hotel and Conference Centre, Bundoran on Friday and Saturday, March 12 and 13.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2004
For about the first three weeks of January every year, one of the main queries that we receive at the station is where can old Christmas cards and used stamps be sent that are gathered in the run-up to Christmas.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2004
Well after all the Christmas celebrations, its time to settle back into a New Year now and into what can be called a regular routine.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2003
At the best of times for some people, the amount of telephone numbers that we have to give out for our programmes is confusing to say the least, what with three different landlines, our text number and our lo-call number.
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Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Over the summer months you may have noticed that we started broadcasting our Sunday morning Masses on what is called a full-quality link.
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Tuesday, December 02, 2003
It's very much countdown to Christmas time this week, three weeks tomorrow is
Christmas Eve and therefore by my calculations, only twenty-one shopping days left.
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Tuesday, November 25, 2003
AS you read this today, we’re hours away from our big celebration concert for North West Radio in the Great Northern Hotel, Bundoran.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2003
I want to start-off this week by telling you about our big concert that is being organised to celebrate the recent news of the fact that North West Radio has been voted ‘Radio Station of the Year’.
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Tuesday, November 04, 2003
This has been a very successful year again in relation to picking-up awards for various programmes and stories we have covered and I suppose that culminated in North West Radio picking up the ‘Station of the Year’ Award.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Please forgive us if this week I'm guilty of blowing our own trumpets but quite frankly there is a palpable sense of genuine excitement and vindication in the announcement last Friday that North West Radio has been voted the Local Radio Station of the Year.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2003
FIRSTLY, this week I’d like to congratulate Carmel Hussey-Comer from Glenamaddy who was the winner of the trip to the Caribbean on my Mid Morning Show last week.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2003
It’s been a good week for us at the radio station because word has come through from the PPI, which is the Phonographic Performance Society of Ireland that four of our programmes, plus both of our radio stations have been nominated to pick-up awards.
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Tuesday, October 07, 2003
LAST week was World Animal Health Week and this week would you believe is National Spay and Neuter Week.
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Wednesday, October 01, 2003
With all the excitement of our official opening last week I never thought to congratulate Agatha Higgins from Knockbrack, in Ballyhaunis on winning a new Hyundai Getz at Cunningham’s Londis, Ballyhaunis last Thursday week.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2003
THIS is Week Two of our Mid Morning Show Top 100 countdown, which is going extremely well. So far we’re delighted with the response but then again there is a great prize up for grabs.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2003
A LONG threatening comes at last and finally we are in a position to announce the official opening of our Mid West Radio state of the art broadcasting centre at Clare Street, Ballyhaunis.
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Tuesday, September 09, 2003
After the youngsters go back to school and we settle into the autumn schedule, people start thinking about having a night out for themselves and of course the culture in this country has moved very much towards concerts and theatre in the last few years.
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Tuesday, September 02, 2003
Following on from the success of our survey results last week, thankfully it’s more good news again this week because we have just received our JNLR survey results for our weekend audiences which has placed us firmly as the number one local radio station in the country.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2003
THIS week radio life has been revolving around our bi-annual JNLR Survey Results.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2003
It’s just over a year ago since a fresh-faced young lad walked into Soundtrax Studios in Castlebar with a handful of songs and a whole lot of hope in his heart that he might become a professional singer.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2003
August is moving along at a pace and of course holidays are priority in people’s minds at the moment.
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Tuesday, August 05, 2003
WE’RE now well settled in our new Mid West Radio headquarters and thankfully everything is working well.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2003
BACK again for another week and already it’s the August bank holiday weekend.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2003
AS you read the article this week we have finally moved into our new headquarters for Mid-West Radio in Clare Street, Ballyhaunis.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2003
We’re all heading into a very busy few weeks here on radio land. It’s very much the season of festivals and various other types of outdoor activities and because of all of this our Outside Broadcast teams will be extremely busy for the next five or six weeks.
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Tuesday, July 08, 2003
This week I have to say the events of Sunday, June 29 are still very fresh in my mind. Of course I'm referring to the huge SOS rally which took place in Sligo under glorious weather.
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Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Another Tuesday and another week and what a momentous one it has been for us all, especially after the rally in Sligo on Sunday.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2003
THIS week the countdown is on to the big S.O.S (Save our Station) rally which has been organised by a wonderful group of people from across the region for this Sunday.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2003
IT has been a very busy week and a lot has been happening on the radio front, particularly in relation to North West Radio.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2003
You might not think it with the way the weather has been over the past few weeks but we are well and truly into the summer season now. And as always radio life is as busy as ever.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2003
It's another bank holiday weekend and they come at such speed this time of year, you're no sooner out of one than you're into another.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Back again for another week and firstly I want to keep you up to date on the situation with our North West Radio licence.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2003
I'M afraid there is only one story that will dominate my article this week and that's the extraordinary decision taken by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland to take the broadcasting licence from North West Radio.
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Tuesday, May 06, 2003
North West Radio boss Paul Claffey has rejected claims that a breach in the BCI advertising guidelines cost them their North West franchise.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2003
This week we‘re heading towards another Bank Holiday, it seems to be the season of Bank Holidays. But we’re moving rapidly towards the May one and I suppose it’s no harm that we all get a day off every now and again.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2003
Hope your Easter went well and thankfully the weather added to the holiday weekend. It was absolutely fabulous and as listeners keep saying, without doubt, so far it has been one of the best springs in living memory.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2003
THIS week its good news all the way and I want to start-off by inviting you to tune into my programme every day this week because we are giving two lucky people the chance to win the trip of a lifetime on my music and fun trip to the sun in the Algarve in Portugal.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2003
Yesterday we wrapped up a busy weekend of outside broadcasts by travelling to Knock Airport to broadcast the launch of a new daily air service from Knock to Birmingham.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2003
THIS Sunday is Mother’s Day so I hope that all you mums out there will be in a position of having to do absolutely nothing on your special day except to be wined and dined by your loved ones.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Greetings after the St. Patrick ‘s weekend celebrations. I hope everything went well for you all and that you had a nice relaxing weekend.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2003
GREETINGS again this week as we get that little bit closer to St. Patrick’s Day.
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Tuesday, March 04, 2003
I want to start off this week by talking to you about old cures. Those of you who listen to my programme will know that not a day goes by that I’m not asked for cures for practically everything under the sun.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2003
Back again for another week and this Wednesday night is a very special night as we broadcast our own 'This is your Life' show from the Allingham Arms Hotel, Bundoran where I will be joined by comedians Conal Gallen and Frank Forde.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Back again and definitely celebrating this week with some of the best news ever in our broadcasting careers.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2003
THE COUNTDOWN is on to Valentine’s Day and as always we’re not letting the occasion pass here on Mid and North West Radio without having some nice prizes to give away.
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Tuesday, February 04, 2003
This week I want to start off by letting you know that our North West Radio licence is up for renewal this year.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2003
Back again for another week and already we’re looking at February 1, which is this coming Saturday. As well as being the first day of spring it is also St. Bridget’s Day.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2003
We'll start off this week with all the good news. First of all a huge congratulations to Padraic Walsh from Walsh's Timber Flooring, Kiltimagh on winning the prize of 10,000 euro off his mortgage on Padraic Walsh's Late Late Lunchbox.
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Wednesday, January 08, 2003
It's a brand new year and at this stage I can safely assume that things are coming back to normal for you all after a hectic Christmas and New Year period.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2002
As I put pen to paper this week I sincerely hope that you have been enjoying the Christmas celebrations and that it has been a happy and healthy time for you all.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2002
I’m sure you’re all extremely busy this week as there is now only seven days to go until Christmas day.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2002
As you read the article this week it’s hard to believe that we only have two weeks to go to Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
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Wednesday, December 04, 2002
WITH only three weeks to go until Christmas here at the radio station we’re busy preparing for our Christmas schedule, which will have various different Christmas programmes that will hopefully make your festive season a brighter and happier one.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2002
THE COUNTDOWN is definitely now on to Christmas. Four weeks today we will all be preparing for the Christmas dinner.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2002
IT’S NICE to be back on the air again after the break. I have to say that it was something I had in the back of my mind to do for a long time.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Well this week is my final postcard from the Caribbean, in fact as this article goes to press, we’re in the final days of the trip with our final group.
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Wednesday, November 06, 2002
WELL, as you read the article this week, our last group of holiday makers have arrived in the Caribbean and have all settled in very well.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2002
Greetings once again from the Caribbean. This week we’re preparing to greet our third group of visitors who will be joining us on Sunday and we’ll all be heading home on November 13.
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Tuesday, October 22, 2002
As you read this article this week we are preparing to say goodbye to our second group of visitors to the Caribbean and I’m delighted again that everyone has had a wonderful time.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2002
Let me start this week by saying that my second group of people are with us in the Caribbean and just like our last group things have been going extremely well.
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Wednesday, October 09, 2002
Firstly this week I’d like to congratulate Anne Kelly from Ballygawley, County Sligo. Anne won herself a brand new Ford Ka in the Sligo Weekender promotion held on Tuesday night last in the Hawk’s Well Theatre.
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Wednesday, October 02, 2002
I want to start this week by paying tribute to a great friend and colleague of mine over the years, John Duggan.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2002
The countdown is on to our big concert for Mid-West-Radio which takes place in the Royal Theatre, Castlebar this coming Monday night to celebrate the renewal of our licence for another ten years.
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Wednesday, September 18, 2002
Can I start this week by thanking all the many people who have been sending us cards, letters and messages of goodwill as a result of us securing the franchise to broadcast in the Mid West Region for another 10 years.
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Wednesday, September 11, 2002
This week I have to start by saying that probably the best news of all came to us last Monday when the Broadcasting Commission decided to renew our Mid West Radio licence to broadcast in the franchise area for the next ten years.
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Wednesday, August 28, 2002
I have to say this week has been a wonderful week for us all at Mid and North West Radio because on Tuesday last we received our JNLR survey results for the year 2001 showing increases again in our listenership for both Mid West and North West Radio.
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Wednesday, August 07, 2002
Welcome again to the Mid and North West Radio Newsletter. Hopefully you all had a great Bank Holiday Weekend.
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Friday, July 26, 2002
Welcome once again to the Mid and North West Radio weekly newsletter.
Monday last was a very big day for us at Mid West Radio as we presented our oral submission to the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland to renew our broadcasting contract for the next ten years.
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