European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday August 10, 1978 the stars and stripes Poge 19 from  by Fred schruers Lusic British Rocker Elvis Cost cello recently spent five Days in Nashville recording with George Jones whose next up will also be Sweet ened by Willie Nelson. Yvo Aylon Jennings. Linda Ronstadt. Emmylou Harris and James Taylor. Ien we found Elvis at new York s one Star cafe Ady to take in Delbert Mcclinton s set he would t con pm that Jones will record stranger in the House has is a deliberate attack on the Media and he right of free speech snorted or. Don Moore co Mer of alternative radio Dublin Ard after a net raid. Flu Only pirate to close so far is a gaelic language Sta Bai Ireland s Remote Atlantic Seaboard. It lasted Only Days. Bui 12 other pirates six in Dublin Are going Strong an embarrassing Challenge to prime minister Rich s fianna fail government and the Sale run radio Telef is Eireann Rte. Borne pirates broadcast a lucrative diet of round the c Rock music and commercials. Bui others Are More and Are introducing More socially oriented Dis i programs thai have none of the constraints in donate. Lard underlined its bid for legitimacy earlier this year i special bulletins and analysis on the governments scooping Rte where coverage was halted by a growing number of Rte journalists and producers frequent conflict Wilh the government Over alleged i in programming on the slate broadcasting the Republic which they would run ousting Flanna fail and the Republic s major party Fine Gael. The government is preparing Laws that would close the pirates but permitting non state stations Over which they could exert control. We re not irresponsible people declared business Man Bernard Llewellyn one of Ard s backers and direct i my the Public alarm voiced by the govern r. It a deeper fear that nationalist Republic to end British Rule in neighbouring oni will use the pirates to sidestep m rep Bucan views. Jew ultimate aim of the nationalists and their Irish re army guerrillas is to reunite the province Wilh Dublin pirate of Gerry Campbell at work. Tors. We re willing to observe any reasonable requirements defined by the minister of posts and Tele graphs. We Don t have a License but we Don t feel we re doing anything  the pirates Are winning a mass audience with their Rock music programs and Low Cost advertising that Rte complains is eating into its Revenue. The pirates Are Able to operate through a loophole in the Republic s outdated broadcasting Laws exposed last summer in an abortive government bid to close Down a Small unlicensed transmitter in Dublin. The Case against him collapsed because he proved that his equipment was not exclusively used for broadcasting. Within weeks More stations began operating. Amid continual police harassment the pirates sur round themselves with Early warning systems against raids to give them time to get rid of a Small component thai transforms their transmitters into nothing More than huge amplifiers. The pirates like Eammon Captain Cooke of radio Dublin the godfather of pirate radio and Ard s Moore have become Folk heroes. When the authorities cracked Down on radio Dublin a few weeks ago 200,004 people signed a Peti Tion supporting the station. More than 10,000 youngsters took to the Streels in fes Tive mood to protest government moves in one of the big Gest demonstrations seen in the Irish capital. Cooke is one of the pirate pioneers an ext repairman and lifelong radio Ham who runs radio Dublin from his suburban Home in the cily s Inch Core Section with a staff of 12. He built his own transmitter and began broadcasting a few hours on sundays with his Butcher As his deejay. Official harassment forced him to nil the Road Wilh a Mobile transmitter. But he finally went All the Way. Local businesses eagerly bought advertising Lime and now radio Dublin has an audience of 150,000, one third of the City s regular radio listeners. I thought Rte had had things All its own Way Long enough the Gray haired Cooke said. If you tune into Rte nine times out of 10 there s someone talking Boring you to death