This list of radio stations in the Republic of Ireland lists all licensed radio stations broadcast in the Republic of Ireland, sorted first by legal status, then by area. The abbreviations MW, FM,

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Public radio stations

National analogue and digital radio

* RTÉ Radio 1 (87.8–90.2 FM, DTT) * RTÉ 2FM (90.4–92.2 and 97.0 FM, DTT) *

RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta (; "Radio of the Gaeltacht"), abbreviated RnaG, is an Irish language radio station owned and operated by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). The station is available on FM in Ireland and via satellite and on the Intern ...

(92.6–94.4 and 102.7 FM, DTT) *

RTÉ lyric fm RTÉ Lyric FM (stylised as RTÉ lyric fm) is an Irish classical-music and arts radio station, owned and operated by RTÉ. The station, which is based in Limerick, was launched in 1999 and is available on FM throughout Ireland (in some areas a ...

(95.2, 96.7 and 97.8–99.6 FM, DTT)

National digital radio

RTÉ Radio 1 Extra RTÉ Radio 1 Extra is a digital radio station produced by the Irish public-service broadcasting service Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). History Initially launched on 1 December 2008 as RTÉ Choice RTÉ Choice was a digital radio stati ...

(DTT) *

RTÉ Pulse RTÉ Pulse is an electronic dance music station from Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), Ireland's national broadcaster. It plays a varied mix of dance music, with a small number of shows covering RnB. It started broadcasting in April 2008, but ...

(DTT) * RTÉ 2XM (DTT) * RTÉjr Radio (DTT) *

RTÉ Chill RTÉ Chill is a digital radio station of the Irish public-service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). It broadcasts mostly chillout and ambient music as well as other low-tempo genres and typically features the output of such cutti ...

(DTT) *

RTÉ Gold RTÉ Gold is an Irish radio station broadcasting on Saorview, online, and Virgin Media. RTE Gold is also available on Eir TV (eirtv /eir vision) eir Background The station plays music from the 1950s to the 2000s. Weekday programming has pre ...

(DTT)

Private radio stations

Independent national radio

* Newstalk (103.3, 105.8–107.9 FM) *

Today FM Today FM is an Irish national commercial FM radio station, owned and operated by Bauer Audio Ireland Limited. Broadcasting since 17 March 1997, it broadcasts mostly music, with a daily news and current affairs programme. Today FM holds a lic ...

(97.3, 100.0–101.8, 105.5 FM)

Independent regional radio

Beat 102 103 Beat 102 103 is an independent regional radio station in the Republic of Ireland licensed by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland covering counties Waterford, Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford and Tipperary in South East Ireland. It began broadcast ...

(102.0–103.1 FM) – Counties Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford and south Tipperary *

iRadio iRadio is a music-driven youth radio station broadcast in the Border, West, Mid-East and Midland regions of Ireland. The station is one of four music-driven youth stations that were licensed by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to challe ...

(96.9, 102.1–106.7 FM) – Counties Cavan, Donegal, Galway, Kildare, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Westmeath and north-east County Laois * SPIN South West (94.7, 102.3–103.9 FM) – Counties Clare, Limerick, Kerry, north Tipperary and south-west County Laois

Independent multi-city radio

Ireland's Classic Hits Radio Ireland's Classic Hits Radio is an Irish Radio in Ireland, independent multi-region radio station based in Dublin, and broadcasting to that city as well as Cork city, Cork, Limerick, Galway, County Clare, County Wicklow, County Kildare, County M ...

(94.6–95.4, 97.2–97.4 and 104.2–104.9 FM) – Counties Clare, Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Limerick, Meath and Wicklow *

Spirit Radio Spirit Radio is an Irish Christian and religious radio station which began broadcasting in January 2011. It is licensed by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) to broadcast to the cities of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford, Bray ...

(87.7, 89.8-94.5 FM and 549 MW) – Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford cities and Athlone, Bray, Carlow, Clonmel, Drogheda, Dundalk, Ennis, Greystones, Kilkenny, Killarney, Letterkenny, Naas, Navan, Sligo, Tralee and Wexford on FM; nationwide on MW

Independent local radio

Dublin

* 98FM (97.4 and 98.1 FM) * FM104 (103.1 and 104.4 FM) *

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(101.5 and 102.2 FM) * Radio Nova (95.7 and 100.1–100.5 FM) * SPIN 1038 (103.5 and 103.8 FM) *

Sunshine 106.8 ''Sunshine 106.8'' is an easy listening radio station, based in Dublin, Ireland. It is licensed by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) as a commercial FM broadcaster in the Dublin area. The station broadcasts on 106.8 MHz from Thr ...

(106.6 and 106.8 FM)

Cork

C103 C103 is one of three local radio stations licensed by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland for Cork City and County in Republic of Ireland (the other two being its sister station 96FM and youth music station Red FM). It broadcasts from stud ...

(102.6–103.9 FM) *

Cork's 96FM 96FM is one of three local radio stations licensed by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland for Cork (city), Cork City and County Cork, County in Ireland (the other two being its sister station C103 and youth music station Red FM (Ireland), Red ...

(95.6–96.8 FM) * Red FM (104.2–106.1 FM)

Connacht

Galway Bay FM Galway Bay FM is an Irish independent local radio station and operates under a licence from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland. Established in 1989, the station broadcasts from studios in Galway, serving the city and County Galway. Programmi ...

(95.8–97.4 FM) – west County Galway *

MidWest Radio MidWest Radio is a radio station based in County Mayo, Ireland. Officially opened in 1989 (having operated previously as an unlicensed station), its current studios are located on Clare Street, Ballyhaunis. The JNLR/MRBI radio listenership sur ...

(95.4–97.2 FM) – County Mayo * Ocean FM (94.7, 102.5, 103.0 and 105.0 FM) – County Sligo, north County Leitrim and south County Donegal *

Shannonside FM Shannonside Northern Sound is a dual radio franchise which operates across counties Cavan, Monaghan (Northern Sound Radio), Leitrim, Longford and Roscommon (Shannonside FM) in Ireland. It has a 46.9% market share. History Shannonside FM an ...

(95.7, 97.2 and 104.1 FM) – County Roscommon, south County Leitrim, east County Galway and north-west County Longford

Leinster (excluding Dublin)

East Coast FM East Coast FM (formerly known as BLB, Horizon FM, then East Coast Radio) is an Irish local radio station broadcasting from Bray, County Wicklow under a sound broadcasting contract from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland The station operates ...

(94.9, 96.2, 99.9, 102.9 and 104.4 FM) – County Wicklow *

KCLR 96FM KCLR 96FM is an Irish radio station which broadcasts to Carlow and Kilkenny in Ireland. It began broadcasting in May 2004. Schedule KCLR breakfast with John Walsh is a three-hour show from 7am to 10am and continues to be the most popular br ...

(94.6 and 96.0–96.9 FM) – Counties Carlow and Kilkenny * Kfm (97.3 and 97.6 FM) – County Kildare * LMFM (95.5–96.5 FM) – Counties Louth and Meath *

Midlands 103 Midlands 103 (previously known as Midlands Radio 3) is an Irish local independent radio station broadcasting to counties Laois, Offaly, and Westmeath. The station's offices and main broadcast studios are in Tullamore, County Offaly. It also h ...

(95.4–96.5 and 102.6–103.5 FM) – Counties Laois, Offaly, Westmeath and south-east County Longford *

South East Radio South East Radio is an Irish radio station based in County Wexford, broadcasting at 95.6; 96.2, and 96.4 MHz., The station also broadcasts on the same frequencies into adjoining counties - including Wicklow, Carlow, Kilkenny and Waterford. South ...

(95.6–96.4 FM) – County Wexford

Munster (excluding Cork)

Clare FM Clare FM is an Irish radio station which broadcasts to County Clare and the surrounding areas. The station has won many Irish radio awards. Clare FM broadcasts on frequencies 95 - 96FM including 95.2, 95.5, 95.9, 96.4 & 96.6. In the past, it al ...

(95.2–96.6 FM) – County Clare *

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(95.0 and 95.3 FM) – County Limerick * Radio Kerry (96.2–97.6 FM) – County Kerry *

Tipp FM Tipp FM (Tipperary Local Radio), licensed since 1989 by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, is the local radio station covering County Tipperary. In addition to the official franchise area, the station also enjoys a listenership in neighbo ...

(95.3, 97.1 and 103.3–103.9 FM) – County Tipperary * WLR FM (94.8–95.5 and 97.5 FM) – County Waterford

Ulster

Highland Radio Highland Radio is the local radio service for the County Donegal (North) franchise, operating under a licence from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI). Headquartered at the Mountain Top in Letterkenny, the station broadcasts throughout a ...

(94.7–95.2 and 102.1–104.7 FM) – north County Donegal * Northern Sound (94.8, 96.3 and 97.5 FM) – Counties Cavan and Monaghan

Community radio

* Athlone Community Radio (88.4 FM) – Athlone, County Westmeath *

Claremorris Community Radio Claremorris Community Radio is a locally-run community radio station in Claremorris, County Mayo, Ireland. It is a Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI)-licensed, communally owned, not-for-profit community media project. The station aims t ...

(94.6 FM) – Claremorris, County Mayo * Community Radio Castlebar (102.9 FM) – Castlebar, County Mayo * Community Radio Kilkenny City (88.7 FM) – Kilkenny city * Community Radio Youghal (104.0 FM) – Youghal and east County Cork *

Connemara Community Radio Connemara Community Radio is a community-based radio station broadcasting for 10 hours per day throughout the north-west Connemara region of Ireland. It initially began broadcasting in September 1988 until New Year's Eve 1988 as a pirate station ...

(87.8–88.4, 102.2 and 106.1 FM) – west County Galway *

Dublin South FM Dublin South FM is a Community Radio station for South Dublin, which broadcasts seven days a week from 11am to 11pm on 93.9 FM, and broadcasts 24 hours a day on digital. The station is operated by a democratic co-operative, Dublin South FM ...

(93.9 FM) – south County Dublin * Dundalk FM (97.7 FM) – Dundalk, County Louth *

Liffey Sound FM Liffey Sound FM is a not-for-profit community radio station broadcasting to the suburban town of Lucan, County Dublin and its environs, broadcasting on the frequency 96.4 MHz. The station is operated by Liffey Sound Communications Co-Opera ...

(96.4 FM) – Lucan, County Dublin * Near FM (90.3 FM) – north-east Dublin city *

Phoenix FM Phoenix FM is a community radio station serving the areas of Brentwood and Billericay, England on 98.0FM and online, covering an area of over 140,000 people. History The station was formed in 1996 and has been broadcasting full-time on FM since ...

(92.5 FM) – Dublin 15 * Raidió Corca Baiscinn (92.5, 94.8 and 106.4 FM) – south-west County Clare * Raidió na Life (106.4 FM) – Dublin city and County Dublin * Ros FM (94.6 FM) – County Roscommon * Tipperary Mid-West Radio (104.8 and 106.7 FM) – Tipperary town, Cashel and south County Tipperary *

West Limerick 102 West Limerick 102 is a community radio station broadcasting to the western parts of County Limerick in Ireland. The station operates on a non-commercial basis and has a five year licence issued by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland. The stat ...

(101.4, 101.6 and 102.2 FM) – west County Limerick

Community interest radio

Flirt FM Flirt FM is a licensed student radio station located at the University of Galway.Rosemary Day. Community Radio in Ireland. In: The Encyclopaedia of Social Movement Media, edited by J. Downing. Thousand Oaks: Sagpreprint/ref> It broadcasts at 101. ...

(101.3 FM) – National University of Ireland, Galway * Juice FM (88.7 FM) – Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa, Cork (30 days on FM temporary licence per college year) * UCC 98.3FM (98.3 FM) – University College Cork *

Wired FM Wired 99.9FM is a college radio station in Limerick city, Ireland, licensed by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to serve the student population of Limerick City. It is currently run as a partnership between Mary Immaculate College and Limer ...

(99.9 FM) – Limerick city

Institutional radio

* CUH FM (102.0 FM) – Cork University Hospital * Dreamtime Radio (90.9 FM) – SOS Kilkenny *

Limerick Regional Hospital Radio Limerick ( ; ga, Luimneach ) is a western city in Republic of Ireland, Ireland situated within County Limerick. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West Region, Ireland, Mid-West which comprises pa ...

(94.2 FM) – University Hospital Limerick * South Tipperary General Hospital Radio (93.7 FM) – South Tipperary General Hospital, Clonmel * St. Ita's Hospital Radio (89.5 FM) – St Ita's Hospital, Portrane

Special interest radio

Dublin City FM 103.2 Dublin City FM (''Previously: Anna Livia FM and Dublin City Anna Livia FM'') is an Independent Local Radio station in Dublin, Ireland, operated by Dublin Public Service Radio Association Ltd, under a sound broadcasting contract from the ...

(103.2 FM) – Dublin city

Religious radio

* Life FM (93.1 FM) – Christian radio, Cork city * Radio Maria Ireland (DTT) – Catholic radio * UCB Ireland (DTT) - United Christian Broadcasters.

Digital radio

* Dublin Digital Radio – Experimental and community radio, Dublin City/ online

References

External links

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