Declan Meehan (radio presenter)

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Declan Meehan ({{langx|ga|Déaglán Ó Míocháin}}) is an Irish radio presenter. Currently fronting The Morning Show with local radio station East Coast FM,[http://eastcoast.fm/content/view/65/80/ "Declan Meehan"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206175705/http://eastcoast.fm/content/view/65/80/ |date=6 December 2008 }}. East Coast FM. Retrieved 21 November 2008. his career has incorporated involvement with multiple pirate radio stations (including Radio Milinda, the first to be raided and prosecuted) and, later, RTE Radio 2 (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, England. He is remembered for "presenting a cool and calm front".{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20081024015433/http://www.radiowaves.fm/portrait/DeclanMeehan.shtml "Declan Meehan"]}}. RADIOWAVES. Retrieved 21 November 2008. on the morning that Radio Nova was raided in May 1983. He had joined the station from Sunshine Radio.

When Radio Milinda was threatened with closure in December 1972,{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/laweb/brc/brc_timeline.html|title= History of Irish Public Service Broadcasting – Timeline|accessdate=16 March 2008|format=RTÉ|publisher=RTÉ News}} 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."[http://www.radiowaves.fm/database/index.html?http&&&www.radiowaves.fm/database/radiomilinda.html "Radio Milinda"]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. RADIOWAVES. Retrieved 21 November 2008.