South East Radio Press Release Archive

Mr Joe Foley of Enniscorthy in Co. Wexford hit the jackpot last week when he won the first prize of €9000 with Rehab Radio Bingo on South East Radio.

Joe has been playing the game since it started just over three months ago; he has never missed a week. He bought his book in Greenville Stores in Greenville Lane, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.

Joe was shocked and delighted when he realised he had the jackpot number and had scooped the prize of €9,000 and also shared the daily prize of €600. Joe has used the services Rehab provides in Wexford in the past and was delighted to support Rehab by buying a Rehab Radio bingo book each week.

Joanne Eakins Sales Manager, Rehab Group, said: “Rehab Radio Bingo has been a fantastic success in County Wexford with tremendous support from South East Radio as well as from local shops. It really has caught the imagination of listeners who have given the game great backing. While Joe has scooped the jackpot, the people using Rehab’s services are winners too as all the proceeds go to support Rehab.”

Listeners to South East Radio can buy bingo books for €4 in shops across Co. Wexford.  Participants have the chance to win the daily prize of €300 which rolls over until it is won, as well as the jackpot prize every Tuesday which starts at €3,000 and rolls over by €500 each week until it is won. The winning numbers are called out on air four times a day, Monday to Friday just after the main news at 10am,11am,6pm and 7pm. 

Liam Dwyer, General Manager, of South East Radio said: “South East Radio is proud to be associated with Rehab and we are delighted with Radio Bingo since it started just over three months ago.  The draw has been a popular success and I am delighted for the overall winner, Joe.”

5th October 2007 - South East Radio programmes shortlisted for prestigious awards

Two of South East Radio's most popular programmes have been shortlisted for this year's prestigious PPI awards. "South East Radio's Full Irish Breakfast" presented by Tony Scott and "South East Radio's Sports Hour" presented by Alan Corcoran have made it into the top five on the shortlist in their categories, alongside nominations from a number of national and local stations.
The PPI awards are an annual event, recognizing standards of excellence in broadcasting. The nominated broadcasters will attend an awards ceremony in Dublin on October 19th.

05.07.07  Aslan to feature on South East Radio's Full Irish Breakfast

Billy McGuinness and Christy Dignam from Aslan will be Tony Scott's guests live on "South East Radio's Full Irish Breakfast" on Monday 23rd July.
It's 25 years since "This Is" was released and was their first hit - they have since gone on to become one of Ireland's hardest working live bands with a string of chart topping albums and singles, their latest of which will be out in the Autumn.
Engaging and entertaining they are sure to make great live guests on our Breakfast Show.

June 07 South East Radio "Zippy Crew

"Wexford's South East Radio have launched a new promotional team called the "South East Radio Zippy Crew". 
The team use unique electronic personal transportation devices that propel the rider almost silently around the street.  The 2 wheeled eco-friendly devices are electronically controlled to balance automatically and glide along by the rider leaning in the direction of intended travel.  The team's Abi Way was seen riding a South East Radio Zippy during their initial outing at a promotion in Wexford for Meteor.  On their first outing they attracted major attention from passers-by who were full of questions about how the vehicles worked and what they were (and where they were off to next!).  

June 07 - South East Radio Listener wins VIP trip to meet Beyonce

Wexford's South East Radio were giving listeners the chance to win an amazing prize recently.  They linked with Sony Music to offer a pair of tickets to see Beyonce with a V.I.P "meet 'n' greet" session backstage after the gig.  But the station added on a prize package which included limo transport, shopping for designer

clothes and sunglasses, a pamper session at a local spa, and hotel stay after the gig in Dublin - nice one!

May 07 - Alan Corcoran to present South East Radio Sport 

South East Radio is delighted and excited to announce the appointment of popular broadcaster Alan Corcoran as their new Sports Editor.  Alan's long experience in broadcasting, coupled with his knowledge and interest in sports, make him the ideal presenter of the newly improved South East Radio Sport.  You can look forward to extra sports bulletins on weekdays, in-depth interviews and reports, plus coverage of sports related news and stories right throughout all the progammes starting this week.    South East Radio’s weekend

sports coverage will be extended too with Alan at the helm. 

Oct 06 - EuropeanIrish.com choose South East Radio.

South East Radio has been selected as the "EuropeanIrish Radio Station of the month" for June 2005
The EuropeanIrish Radio site features more than 55 online radio stations, mostly Irish based, or online ones with Irish interest. 1000's of Irish people based across Europe and around the world visit Europeanirish.com regularly, and tune-in live online to the Radio & TV stations, including South East Radio. http://www.europeanirish.com/Radio/index.htm EuropeanIrish is a news and information resource about, and for, the Irish community across Europe. The site features 25,000 European Irish Music, Sport and Cultural events across the continent, details of 2500 Irish Pubs in Europe, including ones which show live Irish sports coverage, and/or have live Irish Music.

27.2.05 South East Radio nominated for Advertising Award

South East Radio has been nominated for an impressive tally of 7 awards in the Annual Radio Advertising Awards this year. The awards take place at a special ceremony for Advertising Industry practitioners in Dublin on Friday 4th March. For details click here.

31.1.05 South East Radio and Wexford's Talbot Hotel Announce new Local Awards Initiative

The South East Radio / Talbot Hotel Person of the Month Awards are a new initiative to reward local people in the voluntary, charity, sporting and business sectors. The awards are presented in association with the Talbot Hotel's celebrations for their 100th year in business. Each month nominations are invited from listeners via nomination forms available throughout the region. The Talbot Hotel in Wexford, South East Radio's offices in Wexford and various retail businesses will have forms available. Further details and on-line submissions are available here.

Each month the Person of the Month will be presented with a special trophy, a weekend break for 2 in an Irish Hotel and a €100 voucher for Wexford's Talbot Hotel. One nominator each month will also be invited to a meal for two at the Talbot Hotel. In February 2006 all winners of the "Person of thee Month Award" will be invited to a spectacular black-tie ball at the Talbot Hotel. The event will announce an overall winner who will receive a continental holiday valued at €2000. For more details, and how you can get involved, listen to South East Radio and don't miss the Alan McGuire Show (10-1pm Mon - Fri). Alan will announce winners at the end of each month starting at the end of February 2005

10.9.04 Another award-winner for South East Radio!

Congratulations to South East Radio's Tracey Lee who received the July "Ad Of The Month" award from Indpendent Radio Sales in Dublin. This is a prestigious accolade competed for by independent radio stations from around the country every month. Tracey produced the excellent ad for Funges of Gorey called "Skippy" in-house at the station. To read about and listen to the ad click here. South East Radio produce most of the ads heard on the station in-house using state-of-the-art digital facilities. South East Radio also record ads for a number of other stations around the country and around the world (wherever you are travelling see if you can spot the voices from your favourite local station!).

30.8.04 South East Radio's Alan Corcoran wins national programme award

This from the GAA's official website:

Best Local Radio Programme: South East Radio - "Countdown to Croker"

Alan Corcoran's splendid example of a well produced programme excels in presentation and content as the programme looks back on Wexford's 2003 All Ireland hurling semi-final draw with Cork and contemplates the replay. Featuring the thoughts of current players, and an insightful interview with former Wexford great Ned Wheeler, the programme also provides musical inserts relevant to Wexford hurling. The entire package adds up to an informative and entertaining presentation - easy listening for GAA fans at its best!

17/12/03 Breakfast Show DJ in painful charity stunt!

DJ Darragh Roberts had a novel ides to raise money for Our Ladies Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin. He got his legs waxed live on air during the broadcast of "South East Radio's Full Irish Breakfast" programme.

The painful stunt, administered by a qualified beautician, proved so entertaining that listeners phoned in with cash pledges for more hot wax strips to be applied (and torn off by members of the station staff!) By the shows end on the day Darragh had baby-smooth legs and pledges well in excess of €600 for the charity.

DATE: 01/04/03 South East Radio in Wexford causes concern over closing of bridge

A South East Radio News item today (Tuesday April 1st) resulted in hundreds of calls to the station and local council offices from concerned motorists outraged at plans to close Wexford Bridge due to subsidence problems.

In an April Fools Day prank, the station reported that the bridge over the Slaney in Wexford town had subsided by several inches and would close for propping up as soon as a temporary bridge was constructed. The full script of the story was;

The closure of Wexford's recently reconstructed bridge is imminent again. A confidential report seen by South East Radio News shows that there has been subsidence in the supporting columns under the bridge.
The specially commissioned report followed a recent routine inspection of the bridge which showed that it had sunk by more than seven inches in the past five months.
While there is not any immediate threat to the stability of the bridge, the Dublin based consultant's report highlights that excessive use of it by heavy vehicles coupled with unstable ground has led to the seriousness of the situation.

The report recommends bridge closure as soon as possible to allow remedial works to be carried out.
Meanwhile, construction has begun on a temporary bridge between Ferrybank and Custom House Quay.
It is expected this will be a toll bridge to help defray the cost of repairs necessary to the existing one.
South East Radio News has also learned the toll bridge is expected to be in operation for a period of five months.
While a toll has not yet been agreed for the temporary bridge it is felt motorists would prefer this option as opposed to making a detour through Crossabeg and Ferrycarrig.

The prank extended to the station's magazine programme, Regional Express, with the co-operation of Wexford Borough independent Councillor Padge Reck, who came on air to rally against the foolishness of the Council for not ensuring the bridge had been built on solid ground in the first place. Hundreds of listeners also rang in, and while a minority twigged it was a hoax, many were also critical of the Council for its perceived wasting of public funds on an unsteady bridge. The local press were also on to the South East Radio newsroom only to be politely told to check the date on a calendar. When the ruse was revealed in the 12.00pm bulletin, there were more calls, but this time saying "well done" and "thanks for the laugh".

Commenting after the noon deadline, Head of News Paul Rowley said, "We've thoroughly enjoyed hoodwinking our listeners this morning, the hoax story went off like clockwork and it was a team effort. I'd like to congratulate our news team for reading the story with straight faces, it can't have been easy!"

South East Radio News caused consternation five years ago with a story claiming that the famous Pikeman statue in memory of the 1798 rebels in Wexford town's Bull Ring was being sold to an American and would be exported and re-erected in a US city. Councillor Padge Reck was also in on that joke.

11.3.03 South East Radio win prestigious national Guinness Radio Award

South East Radio was one of only a small number of radio stations to be awarded a top prize at
"The Guinness Radio advertising Awards" last weekend. The Wexford station beat off competition from big city and national stations to win an award for the best 'station produced' commercial in the competitive 'food & drink' category of the competition.The commercial, for 'Mangan's Traditional Chipper', was produced in South East Radio Production studio by the station's Production Manager, Dave Redmond. South East Radio was the only non-city based radio station to win an award at the ceremony.

The prize was presented to Dave Redmond during a glitzy ceremony at The Burlington Hotel in Dublin on Friday night which was attended by members of the station's Management and Staff.

Managing Director, Eamonn Buttle, was delighted at the win, "South East Radio produces an average of 100 innovative and creative commercials to the highest standard every week - we have the talent and facilities to match the largest national stations and it's great that we've been recognised as leaders in the field. I am particularly pleased for Dave who has put in a lot of hard work since he took over the position in August last year".

The success for the station follows recent good news in the JNLR survey which saw the station's audience increase by 5000 a day. The station now has 45,000 listeners each day in County Wexford - far ahead of Radio 1, 2FM, Today and Lyric FM.

4.3.03 South East Radio's Beetle Bug hits the streets.

"Recently South East Radio started using its latest promotional vehicle, the "South East Radio Beetle Bug", and already it has attracted a lot of attention throughout the region.
The Wexford station are using the fully-branded VW on the streets of Wexford, Enniscorthy, Gorey and New Ross where it is involved in promotions teamed with on-air activity.
The station's Promotions Team welcome campaigns that partner strikingly visual on-street promotions with highly effective on-air air advertising.
Pictured is Laura running a 'sampling distribution' for a breakfast cereal linked to "South East Radio's Full Irish Breakfast" programme.

30th July 2002 Dave Redmond joins South East Radio to present the station's new-look Breakfast Programme from Tuesday 6th August.

On signing a contract with the Wexford station Dave said he was relishing the challenge of presenting the station's prestigious weekday 7-10am slot. "I will be presenting a mix of music, news and information that's in-tune with the region's demands", he said. Putting a smile on peoples' faces is high on the list of Dave's priorities. "South East Radio have a great team and we're working on some great new ideas that include testing listeners early morning mental agility and launching some fantastic new competitions", he continued.

Dave will also be working as the station's Head of Production which will involve over-seeing the operation of the station's busy digital production facilities that produce commercials and station promos.Dave Redmond, a native of Gorey in County Wexford, worked for South East Radio before where he presented various shows including the station's "Drive-time" programme. For the past few years he has been working at Dublin's Lite FM, FM 104 and, most recently, East Coast FM in Bray.Speaking at the contract signing ceremony, Clive Roylance, South East Radio's Head of Programmes, said he was delighted to be welcoming Dave back to the Wexford station. "Dave brings a lot of professional radio experience with him and we know he'll use it to great effect in producing a highly entertaining mix for our Full Irish Breakfast. The team here know Dave well and we're all delighted he's coming home to Wexford!". South East Radio's new-look "Full Irish Breakfast" with Dave Redmond is on from 7-10am Monday - Friday commencing Tuesday 6th August.

July 2002 South East Radio is testing a new internet streaming service that is expected to go live during August 2002.

The tests, utilising the "Windows Media Player" format, will make the station's entire output available worldwide 24 hours per day. Previously the station's internet streaming was available for limited hours and accessible by limited number of simultaneous listeners. The Windows Media Player format is now reckoned to be the best platform for 'webcasting' (as the software is shipped as standard with all Microsoft Windows equipped PC's). Station engineers are said to be delighted with the quality and reliability of the tests so far.
South East Radio is constantly striving to be at the forefront of technological advances (it was the first Irish local station to utilise digital studio systems, and was the first independent station in Ireland to broadcast RDS transmissions).

Fri 22nd July 2002 - A FIRST FOR THE IRISH RADIO INDUSTRY

South East Radio has become the first radio station in Ireland to be awarded the FAS National Standard for Human Resource Development, "Excellence Through People". The award comes after intensive training for the station's management and staff, and a gruelling FAS check the company came up to the necessary standard of the national scheme. 32 organisations, ranging from banks and supermarkets to a university, received the award from Tánaiste Mary Harney T.D. at a recent presentation ceremony at Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel. Nationally, a total of 196 companies employing in excess of 55,000 people have now been awarded the standard.

The Tánaiste said, "The Excellence Through People standard is a recognition of quality training and the related human resource activities. She added that, "Employers who train their people are more effective in maintaining the motivation and commitment of their employees. In that context, Excellence Through People provides a sensible framework which organisations can use to develop their staff and business".

As part of the qualifying process for ETP South East Radio successfully completed the first ever BCI Industry Management Training Programme. General Manager Liam Dwyer said, "We’ve concentrated heavily on staff training and development, we’d completed a BCI Management Training Programme and ETP dovetailed excellently into this programme. We needed to drive forward our training & HR practices in a bench-markable way. Excellence Through People covers all staff in the organisation and is extremely detailed. It ensures we are clearly focused on all the essential areas of training, development, communication and HR practices".

Mr Dwyer added, "We here at South East Radio are extremely proud of reaching the required standard and also of being the first radio station in the country to gain this distinction. I'd like to pay tribute to my fellow management and all the staff for embracing wholeheartedly what we were trying to achieve in gaining the ETP accolade. Without their co-operation and enthusiasm this award would have been extremely difficult to achieve."