Andrew O'Baoill is our guest to discuss the young community and college radio movement in Ireland. Andrew is a PhD. student at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois and in the mid-90s he helped to put on the air one of the first college/community radio stations in Ireland, Flirt FM (http://www.flirtfm.nuigalway.ie/) at the University of Galway.

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The show is 29:00 minutes.
The first file is the 64kbps broadcast quality mp3