{"id":251284,"date":"2026-01-18T15:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251284\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:21:13","slug":"as-mayo-as-it-gets-how-its-local-radio-station-has-woven-its-way-into-the-fabric-of-the-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251284\/","title":{"rendered":"As Mayo as it gets \u2013 how its local radio station has woven its way into the fabric of the county"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Midwest Radio presenters Paul Claffey and Gerry Glennon. Photo courtesy of Midwest Radio\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/49e60ddd-8d1d-4519-b410-1b8152bdb742.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Midwest Radio presenters Paul Claffey and Gerry Glennon. Photo courtesy of Midwest Radio<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Midwest Radio is woven into the fabric of society in County Mayo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s predecessor started off as a pirate radio station broadcasting in a cloakroom in Ballyhaunis and it has become a phenomenon heard in cars and kitchens across the west of Ireland and, indeed, throughout the entire world, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Midwest Radio presenters Paul Claffey and Gerry Glennon. Photo courtesy of Midwest Radio Midwest Radio is woven into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,94087],"class_list":{"0":"post-251284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-oisin-mcgovern"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}