RTÉ facilitates a local community radio service for Tallaght.
Presenter Colm Kinsella reads some requests before playing the first record of the evening 'Making Your Mind Up' by Bucks Fizz on the Tallaght local radio service. This is part of a two hour community radio broadcast featuring music, local history and sports news facilitated by RTÉ.
Community radio has been on wheels since 1975.
Padraig O'Neill from RTÉ, has been involved in community radio since the beginning. A part of the RTÉ public service remit is to bring local and community radio to all parts of Ireland.
We want to participate in local broadcasting in the fullest sense.
Padraig O'Neill is not convinced that commercial radio can provide the same community service that public service broadcasting can..
Radio is a most vital means of communication at local as well as at national level.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 25 October 1983. The reporter is Jackie Hayden.
