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THE BROADCASTING AUTHORITY of Ireland (BAI) is looking for expressions of interest for two commercial radio station licences.
The services are described as “a quasi-national speech/news service” and “a music-driven alternative rock service for Dublin City and County”.
The former is currently held by News 106 Limited, broadcasting as Newstalk. This contract is scheduled to expire on 24 September 2016.
Dublin Rock Radio Limited, broadcasting as TXFM (formerly Phantom FM), currently holds the rock music station contract, which is scheduled to expire on 26 October 2016.
Both are likely to re-apply and retain their licences. The BAI said it can’t comment on the process.
The organisation has produced a guide and application form for those interested in applying.
In a statement, the organisation noted that the ‘expressions of interest’ phase is not part of the application process for a commercial radio service, nor is it regarded as an application for the sound broadcasting contract in question.
The closing date for receipt of expressions of interest is Tuesday, 1 December 2015. All applications received will be made available publicly, following consideration by the BAI.
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Is ‘droch ula’ not a viable option (meaning ‘bad apple’)?- Just sayin’
Vlad the Impaler is widely agreed to be the figure stroker based his Dracula character on . Vlad the inmpalers father was Vlad of dracul. More likely to be derived from this I would think .
On the Dracula issue, you would not be likely to use ‘blood’ (fuil) in its genitive form (fola) in a phrase like this. ‘Drochfhuil’ is a long way away from sounding like ‘Dracula.’
In my humble opinion, Dracula is one of the best 19th century gothic novel ever to come out of Ireland. The Hollywood versions of the book go nowhere near instilling the intrigue, fear and horror characters suffer in the book. Anyone who has not read the book themselves should do so. You’re in for a great read.
There is always the vague but unprovable possibility that Irish phonetics leached into Stoker’s linguistic vocab. But I suspect he just thought it sounded ‘Transylvanian’.
Is it notable that the Roman name for York was “Eboracum”? Is the Irish name derived from the Latin, or could it be that the Roman name was a Latinized version of the original Celtic/Briton name?
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