St. Ita's Hospital Radio Portrane Dublin Ireland The Crew

	Stereo Jack has always been interested in Hospital Radio and remembers its first broadcast in 1983 in fact he tells me that he operated the decks for the very first air checks for the station. He took a break from radio for and few years but then availed of our training service in 1993 and is now an invaluable member of the Hospital Radio Team
	"Andy Gaffney thinks he is most important thing to happen to a hospital since the invention of the MRI machine, he is very much mistaken. Andy sought out 89.5fm after falling in love with the sound of his own voice through his podcasts and wanted to marry this with his love of good music. Andy presents the Alternative Hour on thursdays playing hits from Elbow to the Beatles. Features on the show include such mind blowers as 'I didn't know that about Animals' with the help from Nurse Christina and the game thats sweeping the country, Two true to be false. He can also be heard sometimes on the Breakfast Show on Fridays"
	Mathieu Norry joined us in March 2008. Matthew hails from Dublin and completed a course in radio production while working in sales. His concept for the show is for a request lunchtime show where listeners can interact with him. There is no set playlist, any music from the 70's to today is likely to feature interspersed with entertainment news.
	Tomas Toal aka T.J. Started broadcasting in the 80's on a Monaghan based radio station. He joined us at St. Ita's in October 2007 and is lasting the pace well. "I have an eclectic musical taste, anything with a melody will catch my ear but if pushed U2, One Republic, Nickleback are amoung my favourites" You can catch TJ on Monday afternoons and Tuesday mornings .
	Ray Matthews joined us in October 2007. In the 1980's Ray broadcast for ABC Radio in Waterford and The Voice Of Peace Anchored a 4 kilometer swim from the beach in Tel-Aviv. Having taken time out to marry Trish and raise thre beauties Ray then succumbed to teh lure of the microphone once more, this time here at St. Ita's. Currently you'll catch him on Thursdays from 12 midday to 2 pm when where the priorities are good music and community news and information.
	Steve Marry joined us in april 2007. Currently he presents a hour of middle of the road music every Tuesday and thursday morningl
	Damien Carey/strong> joined us in January 2007. Currently he presents an oldies show on Sunday afternoon and covers for the other weekend presenters in their absence.
	Dympna Cullen also joined our training program in January 2007. having completed her initial training she now presents a classical music program from 11.00 to 12.00 each thursday morning.
	Christine Noctor presents The Pure Irish every Wednesday at twelve o clock. Her show is a music mix of Irish artists. There's a trip down memory lane with a weekly showband feature, a three in a row from a featured Irish artist and a coupla focal courtesy of our friends at Gael Linn.
	John Martin has been with us since the eighties. He was a presenter on TTTR. He presents our Sunday morning programme with mass live from the Church at St. Ita's. He specialises in country music with his Irish country request show and the ever popular Orange Blossom Country Special.
	Annette Kane Joined us as a co-presenter with paul on the Morning Show. She has now progressed to Presenting her very own show on wednesday Morings from 10 to 11..
	Colm O Grady has been with the Station a few years now and presents the Saturday morning show. He has an expert knowledge of music form the 50s to today and will source the most hard to find music if requested.. If you have ever enjoyed our weekend automated system Colm is the man to thank as he is responsible for it.
	Phil Fagan joined us in early 2004. His show entitled Non Stop Gold is full of great music and features such as Going For Gold and Back 2 the Future. Phil's early radio influences were Sunshine 101 and Radio Nova. Keep an eye out for him on the nightclub scene as he is a regular at various venues around Dublin.
	Jason Reynolds is a home grown talent. He had no previous radio experience when he joined us in 2004 availing of our training programme. He now presents the Monday lunchtime show from 12.00 to 14.00 .
	Ken Hughes is a voluntary presenter and also the Station engineer (also voluntary). He keeps the show on the road with his expertise in all things electronic. He is also an excellent jock and anyone frequented the pubs and clubs in the local area in the mid eighties may well remember him.
	Paul Woods joined the team in 2005. He presents the morning show and an at the movies show . He is another presenter that availed of our training programme having no previous radio experience.
	Rob Davis joined us in 2004 and presents The Love Zone featuring Love songs and today. .Rob first broadcast on the very popular pirate ARD in 1979 and has graced many studios since. His fondest memories of listening to radio in his youth is of Radio Luxemburg and BBC Radio 1. He says the best radio he every heard was Chris Carey's Radio Nova "even the adds were brilliant". Rob is a keen collector of radio memorabilia and has his own radio production studio.
	Michael O Brien is a shift worker and broadcasts in his spare time. He has studied radio production at college and hopes to pursue a full time career in broadcasting one day. He also presents a show on Near FM which is a community Station on the north side of Dublin.
	Richard Smith Having spent many months in Hospital Following an accident I feel that I have a better idea, and a greater understanding of what patients and staff need from their local service. So, I set about creating a programme which, hopefully would appeal to most listeners young and old alike, and in such a format that would suit their varying listening habits. ‘The A to Z of pop!’ has been created especially with Hospital Radio listener’s in mind. ........Read more here.
	Tom Noctor is the Station Manager. It is my job to keep things running smoothly. In that regard I am very lucky to have such a great bunch of dedicated volunteers to work with. I don't get on air as much as I would like as the administration keeps me busy and we have a good compliment of presenters at the moment.

	About Our Service: St. Ita's Hospital Radio broadcasts to inform and entertain the residents of St. Ita's Hospital Portrane, Donabate. Read our history here.
	Meet The Staff: Hospital Radio is staffed by a dedicated group of volunteers with a varied taste in music Pictures and more info available here.
	Listen To Us: You can Listen to some of our programme's online here. The shows are streamed using Flash Just click on the programme you wish to listen to.
	News and Weather: Local, Community National and International news headlines with links to the full stories and a local weather forecast.


Over the past twenty five years Hospital radio has seen a lot of voluntary presenters come and go. They are all still considered as part of the team and we thank them for their commitment to our service.. Unfortunately we do not have pictures of all our past presenters but here are a few of our team that for one reason or another are no longer with us.
	Aussie Brad was with us for a few months in 2004. He has since moved home to Australia but we have a couple of his shows recorded so you may still hear him from time to time.
	Michael Treacy Joined us on work experience from his broadcasting course and stayed with us for two years. He has now left to persue his career. We thank him for his valued contribution to our service and wish him wish him every success in the furure.
	Sean Cahill worked at St Ita's and spent his lunchtimes broadcasting a music mix of country oldies and current chart music. Sean was involved with the radio since it's early days. He retired from nursing in march 2006 and hung up his headphones at the same time.
	Alan Quinn presented a lunchtime show every Tuesday between 12.00 and 13.00. His links between songs were a mixture of Irish and English making him our only Bi Lingual presenter to date. Alan left due to work commitments.
	Austin Sherlock was with us for a year from 2004 to 2005 and presented an oldies show every monday and wednesday morning from 10 to 11 am. He also tested the gray cells of our listeners with his conundrums and quizzes.
	Kevin Kavanagh was with us in the late 90's. He left due to new work commitments but still keeps in regular contact with us and has returned to present the odd show or two since.
	Mark Stowe is currently working in the UK so unfortunately he is unable to do a regular show but when home on holidays he makes the odd guest appearance. .He also sends jokes and interesting news items to us via e-mail so even though he is not here on a regular basis we still look on Mark as part of the Hospital Radio team.
	Sean Fahy is the Day Services Manager at St. Ita's and was instrumental in re launching the station in the early 90's after it closed for a few months. He did some presenting around that time. He has a great interest in the Station and is considers as one of the team.
	Pete Downes is another of our past crew.He was with the station for a few years but he has moved down the country so unfortunately is no longer available to present a show.
	The Two Tonies are two very funny guys, Tony Healy on the right and Tony Lynch on the left. They were with us for about six months in 2002 . We still have all their shows in our archive and broadcast them from time to time.
	Jack Buckley was the longest serving member of our team until he passed away on the 28/Feb/1998. His shows consisted mostly of dance band music. He broadcast his last show on the 20th of February 1998
	Declan Meehan made a guest appearance on the station in the eighties. Here he is behind the microphone In the old Hospital Radio studio.
	Vera Neville was one of our very first presenters.
	Julie joined the crew in the mid eighties . She presented a very popular daily country Irish show until she left us in 1993.
	Pat Kinsella joined us in October 2005. He Presented a Classical Music programme every second Friday from 1 to 2 pm. Pat left due to work promotion but hopes to return in the future.

St Ita's Hospital Radio entertains and informs the residents of St. Ita's hospital Portrane, Donabate- Phone: 8436633 - SMS 087 2 895 895
© 2007 Tom Noctor