Back row, SBCR Station Manager Jim Collins, board members Pat O’Brien and Tom Hanley, volunteers Daragh Leamy and Stephen Minogue. Front Row Trish Nugent and Marie McNamara. CLARE COMMUNITY RADIO stations won big at the Craol Féile and annual achievement awards held this week.
*Jim Collins. Photograph: Ruth Griffin CREATIVITY AND relevance in the local community underpin the success of Scariff Bay Community Radio in East Clare, the chairman of the community radio station.
An evening of music, song and conversation was organised for dozens of East Clare residents over the June Bank Holiday weekend to mark what for many was their first social event in over fifteen months.
Scariff Bay Community Radio are in the process of applying for a ten year broadcasting licence that would staple their future on the airwaves.
*Presenter of Sportsline on Scariff Bay Community Radio, Leo Doyle. Photograph: Ruth Griffin SCARIFF BAY COMMUNITY radio have returned to the FM airwaves after the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) renewed their licence for the next fifty weekends.
Scariff Bay Community Radio celebrated five years on the radio last weekend.