Declan Meehan ( ga, Déaglán Ó Míocháin) is an

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radio presenter. Currently fronting ''The Morning Show'' with local radio station

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, his career has incorporated involvement with multiple

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stations (including

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, the first to be raided and prosecuted) and, later, RTE Radio 2 (where he was one of the pioneering station's original presenters). From there he moved to the superpirates of the 1980s, before a spell with legal radio in

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. He is remembered for "presenting a cool and calm front". on the morning that Radio Nova was raided in May 1983. He had joined the station from Sunshine Radio. When Radio Milinda was threatened with closure in December 1972, Meehan declared on air in the week prior to the eventual raid, that they would "fight anybody who tried to close them down". Years later, he commented on the raid:

"We were fined £2, all the equipment was confiscated and it was great fun, a great adventure.""Radio Milinda"
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List of stations worked with

* Radio Vanessa 1970–1972 *

1972 * RTÉ Trinity Radio 1976 Temporary Licence * ARD 1976–1978 * Big D 1978 (Declan Matthews) * ARD 1979 * RTÉ Radio 2 1979–1980 * Sunshine Radio 1980–1982 * Radio Nova 1982–1984 *

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London 1984–1988 *

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1989–1991 * FM 104 1992–1996 *

1994–present. He has presented the weekday mid-morning slot for many years, * Radio Ireland/Today FM 1997–2016. "Sunday Breakfast with Declan Meehan" 7am - 10am every Sunday morning

References

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