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On what were we like, Orchee's podcast about modern Irish history, we look at the impact they had on the country.

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reference to sexual abuse.

This is Radio Dublin on 253 metres medium wave and time band time check mausers at 1.32, 2 minutes after half passed 1.

It was the most extraordinary broadcast I think I've ever heard.

Well, a scandal, rumour, or take it what way you will, was dug up from somewhere, rather.

I was not here, so I could not refute it.

For a week, Radio Dublin had disappeared from my dial.

I was in Spain, and anyone wishing to close the station couldn't have picked a better opportunity.

Outside of a handful of people, no one really knew what was going on.

The allegations, of course, are the type of allegations which people cannot disprove.

But on Sunday, the 16th of April, 1978, the station was back when A.man Cook returned from holidays and took to the airwaves.

They can deny them, certainly. They can deny them, like myself, until I am blue in the face.

But as everyone out there will say, well, there's no smoke without a little bit of fire.

I pointed my transistor at the Dublin Mountains and pressed play and record.

In my wildest dreams, I could never have anticipated what I heard next.

Yes, they were the allegations laid down against me personally, children were allowed into this radio station here and were indecently molested.

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