Many years ago, as a young lad with a keen interest in radio, I tried to get myself a gig on one of the countless pirate stations around Dublin at that time.
I took off one day on my trusty bicycle and cycled to Kilmainham to a big old house. I knocked on the door and explained to the strange looking woman that I was looking for a job as a DJ. She told me to come in and brought me into an ‘office’ to the right hand side of the house. I say ‘office’ because that’s what it was supposed to be but it was little more than an old school table with a couple of chairs and a few filing cabinets.
Behind the desk sat a man. There were lots of kids running around the place.
“So you want to be a DJ?”
“Yes, yes I do.”
“Have you ever done any DJ work before?”
“Well…erm…yeah, a little bit.”
“Where would that be now?”
“Ahh, a very small station my friends put together. You wouldn’t have heard of it”, I lied.
“I’ve heard of every station.”
“Erm…ok.”
“Are you a thief?”, he asked me.
“I am not”, I said.
“Right then, you’re on Friday and Saturday night between 9 and midnight.”
“Crikey! Thanks, mister!”
And so began my time at Radio Dublin. The studio was in a room on the left hand side of the house, blocked off from the rest of the room, which contained a skanky couch and possibly a kettle. Two record decks, a mic, possibly a tape deck, an old cart machine that didn’t work and a telephone.
I worked there for months, lugging down boxes of vinyl every week. I remember the bloke who used to come on after me. He was fucking enormous. I swear to God he was massive and the studio chair was this strange thing that you had to twist the seat to make higher. Anyway, he was so fat he couldn’t fit on it. And he always used to play the Commodores ‘Nightshift’ to start his show and he’d say “Dis is Radio Dublin, welcome to de show. It’s me, [whatever his name was], takin’ you true to de small hours on de nightshift-ah. Tanks to Twenty for da last tree hours-ah….”, and such.
Anyway, I went on to have a hugely successful career on hospital radio while the old man who gave me that radio job, Eamonn “Captain” Cooke was found guilty yesterday of 37 counts of sexual assault on young girls in the mid-late 70s.
The filthy old cunt.
That story faint brought a tear to my eye. And it explains soooo much about you ducky.
It wasn’t opposite the war memorial park was it?
It was on Inchicore Road.
Possibly a kettle?
I can’t remember if there was or there wasn’t. It’s possible there was one.
Thats crazy.
a bloke I used to know when I was a kid, he must have been about 6 years older than me. anyways this guy was always a bit weird and seemed harmless enough but last year my brother told me he’d been recently arrested in Waterford.
I even found the link. Do mind the naming and shaming 20??
filthy fucker
Ok he didn’t touch anyone but still.
jaysus lads that trainee garda who solicited the 14 year old is probably going to get away with it…just heard on 1 o’clock news that there is no offence in Irish law regarding what he’s done…
Will he get a medal instead I wonder?
Littlesapling, McDowell seems to think otherwise.
McDowell: “to his knowledge the gardaí had sufficient legislative basis to continue with their current inquiry into an alleged paedophile ring.”
But he would say that, wouldn’t he.
just as filthy as the official at the Chief State Solicitor’s office in Dublin,and One a 21-year-old probationer garda serving in a south Co Dublin those red neck Garda fucks: they are investigating 12 others in connection. Off with their balls.
Sorry, I guess it’s the same paedophile ring you mentioned?
So was a bit of ‘Alright Smashy…not so bad Twenty…popadoodledoo matey’… ‘You ‘aint seen nothin yet’ and the some Bachman Turner Overdrive?
WHEN are we going to start protecting our children??? Sure as hell no-one else is…. : (
Just had a look at what Captain Cooke has done the judgment said ’33 convictions relating to sexual offences involving four different female persons’
In that case I totally agree with your very last comment Twenty. The b*stard should be topped.
It’s funny the people you know..
Really? Well, I guess it’s a good thing for you that he wasn’t into boys…
The 14-year old jackeen at the centre of this so-called paedophile ring was hardly abused in the correct meaning of that word. He was getting EUR 140 per toss. You could say he was an expensive taste.
Selling yourself isn’t what I’d call abuse, and it’s a waste of time going after the punters involved when there are so many authentic baby-rapers out there….and not all of them members of FF or the PDs either.
He’s 14 Yacuncha, not legal age to concent and not an adult. Therefore it is abuse.
Good Luck at the blog awards tonigt twenty!! I’m rooting for you to get blog of the year
So its the 14 year olds fault Yacuncha?
it has to be his fault he’s from Dublin
A wicked young man who corrupted fine upstanding country boys with his wicked ways?
He’s 14 He’s a child.
The animals who abused him are paedophiles
wether they are ogra fianna fail or not
Your moniker is apt,you are a cunt
As I remember Radio Dublin they just put a tape on overnight. Not that it made much difference when they did have a live DJ on, it’d just be “Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro and “Wichita Lineman” by Glenn Campbell on heavy repeat, regardless. They had a line about being “Europe’s oldest ‘independent’ radio station” that must have been hard to keep a straight face while saying.
Cooke had a reputation for being a ruthless fucker but I had no idea he was involved in that sort of carry-on at all.
I’ve got to agree with Scorchio.
Regardless of how canny the child was or whether he was charging these scumbags child is the operative word here and what these people did is wrong
Is the age of consent for boys still fifteen after last year’s debacle? I’m wondering how far off it this young fella was. Obviously he’s still a child, but it’s interesting to know where the law stands at the moment.
Love the way you were sandwiched between Amy Winehouse and Damien Rice on 2fm, Twenty. If that is your real na… hold on…
Love the way you were sandwiched between Amy Winehouse and Damien Rice on 2fm, Twenty.
Yeah, O’Shea might get that Um Bongo shoved up his hole for that.
My ex-boyfriend Karel liked to have Um-Bongo shoved up his hole. He was a cunt.
And yet… You know what? I miss him.
Jesus, Yacuncha. Suddenly my sense of humour deserts me.
You obviously aren’t a parent. In fact, you obviously know almost nothing about anything if that’s the way you think about people raping children.
I have a fourteen-year-old son. If anyone abused him, I’d cut them into small pieces.
You are the sea these horrible fish swim in.
Here’s the knife. I’d advise you ton start with your ear.
Statutory rape, Bock? It’s certainly abuse – as adults we are obliged to look after and protect those who aren’t yet capable of making adult decisions, and there’s no getting round that duty – but I’m not sure if using the term rape is quite right. Then again, perhaps we shouldn’t differentiate between levels of abuse when it involves minors – it’s far too close to making excuses, isn’t it? I’m still curious, though… would we be calling these men paedophiles if it was a sixteen-year-old girl at the centre of this story? She’d be one year off the age of consent, too. If the disparity between the ages of consent for the two sexes still stands, it really needs thinking about. How can boys be deemed mature enough to make decisions on sex before girls?
Er… still on Twenty’s page. Best make a joke. Did you hear about the wooden car with wooden wheels and a wooden engine? It wooden go.
Sweary. Yeah. It’s like the hooker with the eye-patch. Wooden eye?
Serious bit: Anyone under 15 is a child. Fuckers who rape children die. The end.
God Twenty, were you sandwiched in between Father Michael Cleary and Smoochy Kevin Barrett?
And did you buy your floor coverings from Lino Richie, even though the Red Corner Shop were cutting down prices, rat-a-tat-tat?
I was more of a Bargaintown man meself.
Galway News:
Thank God the donkey was of age, not selling itself, and there were no priests or gardai cadets involved, as far as we now know.
“A man who was found dressed in latex and handcuffs brought a donkey to his room in a Galway city centre hotel, because he was advised “to get out and meet people,” the local court heard last week.
Thomas Aloysius McCarney with an address in south Galway was charged with cruelty to animals, lewd and obscene behaviour, and with being a danger to himself when he appeared before the court on Friday. He was also charged with damage to a mini-bar in the room, but this charge was later dropped when the defendant said that it was the donkey who caused that damage.”
Full story: http://tinyurl.com/yrphzg
according to the convention on the rights of the child, anyone under 18 is a child
“Fuckers who rape children die.”
- not often enough, or quickly enough.
And yet, Oscar Wilde is lauded and feted. I don’t get it me.
Strange thing twenty I did the ould radio thing in me youth, Radio Horizon based the Puck Fair in the kingdom, which was an offshoot of WRKY which had been in Killarney which in turn was a branch off from Big L in Limerick. Pirate radio had more b’stard childers than any place in modern Ireland. It was back when Mark Cagney did the late shift on 2FM. The station ended up getting brought up for a few days in front of the beaks in the High court and at 10K per day in legal fees that was that.