Declan Meehan is an Irish

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 radio presenter. Currently fronting The Morning Show with local radio station East Coast FM

East Coast FM

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, his career has incorporated involvement with multiple pirate radio

Pirate radio

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 stations (including Radio Milinda

Radio Milinda

Radio Milinda was the first pirate radio station in the Ireland to be raided by police and prosecuted. On Sunday, December 17, 1972 almost 100 police raided the station at 5 North Gloucester Place, Dublin . Seven people were arrested and taken to Store Street police station, where they were later...

, the first to be raided and prosecuted) and, later, Radio 2

RTÉ 2fm

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 (where he was one of the pioneering station's original presenters). From there he moved to the superpirates of the 1980s, before a spell with legal radio in London

London

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, England

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. He is remembered for "presenting a cool and calm front"." on the morning that Radio Nova

Radio Nova (Ireland)

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 was raided in May 1983. He had joined the station from Sunshine Radio

Sunshine Radio

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.

When Radio Milinda was threatened with closure in December 1972, Meehan declared on air in the week prior to the eventual raid, that they would "fight anybody who tried to close them down". Years later, he commented on the raid:

"We were fined £2, all the equipment was confiscated and it was great fun, a great adventure."

List of Stations

Radio Vanessa 1970-1972
Radio Milinda 1972
RTÉ Trinity Radio 1976 Temporary Licence
ARD 1976-1978
Big D 1978
ARD 1979
RTÉ Radio 2 1979-1980
Sunshine Radio 1981
Radio Nova 1982 - 1984
Capital Radio London 1984- 1988
RTÉ Millennium Radio 1988
Century Radio 1989 - 1991
FM 104 1992 - 1996
East Coast FM 1994 -
Radio Ireland/Today FM 1997 -