Liam Walsh

Liam Walsh

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  • About me

    Experienced Radio Broadcaster

  • Education

    • St. Partick's College, DCU, Dublin 9

      1975 - 1978
      Bachelor's degree Elementary Education and Teaching

      Major subjects: Education and Music. Minor subject: Irish.

  • Experience

    • Dept of Education and Skills

      Jun 1978 - Aug 2001
      Teacher
    • Mount Sion Silver Band

      Feb 1979 - Feb 2002
      Musician

      Musical Director

    • WLR FM

      Feb 1979 - May 1988
      Radio Presenter

      I worked with Waterford's WLR (Pirate Radio Station) as a presenter for nine years. I left WLR in 1988 to undertake a Radio Producer training course at RTE.

    • RTE

      Jun 1988 - Aug 1989
      Radio Producer
    • WLR FM

      Aug 1989 - Jan 2007
      Radio Preseeter

      I worked with Waterford's WLR radio station from the day the station opened on 8th September 1989 until 2007 when I stepped away from radio to concentrate on my role as Primary School Principal at Waterpark National School. During my 18 years at WLR I worked as Journalist/Newsreader, late night weekend presenter, swing jock providing holiday cover for weekday presenters. For over ten years I presenting a popular weekly programme of light classical music called "Classical Favourites".

    • Waterpark National School

      Sept 2001 - Aug 2014
      School Principal
    • Zenith Classic Rock

      Jan 2010 - May 2015
      Radio Presenter

      Zenith Classic Rock "The best Little Rock Station in the World" is a Classic Rock radio station which was awarded a temporary FM and AM license to broadcast across the South East of Ireland for a number of years. I presented a weekly Classic Rock Programme on the station.

    • Christmas FM

      Dec 2011 - Dec 2018
      Radio Presenter

      I presented various shows on Christmas FM all across the day and weekends from morning shows, lunch time, drive time, Friday nights, daytime weekend and Sunday evenings.

    • Freelance

      Sept 2014 - now
      Photographer

      I am a photographer with a particular interest in Fashion photography with images published in fashion magazines.

    • KCLR96FM

      Sept 2014 - Dec 2015
      Radio Presenter

      Presented a live weekly “Oldies” show called “KCLR Classics” every Sunday for four months while the permanent presented was on leave. I also worked as a swing jock covering other programmes as required.

    • TippFM

      Jul 2016 - now
      Radio Presenter

      Presented and produced a weekly music programme called “Guilty pleasures”. No playlist, all of the music was chosen by myself with an emphasis on rarely heard oldies.Tag line: “Songs you had forgotten you loved”. The most common response fromListeners was “I haven’t heard that great song in years!”

    • Funland Radio

      Mar 2020 - now
      Radio Presenter
    • Liam's Guilty Pleasures PodCast at https://www.mixcloud.com/Liam57/

      Mar 2021 - Apr 2023
      Podcast Host

      Liam's Guilty Pleasures is a weekly hour long pod cast of songs from the 60's to the 80's.

    • KL1 Radio

      Nov 2021 - now
      Radio Presenter
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • LIPF Licentiate in Photography

      Irish Photographic Federation
      Mar 2019
    • QQI level 5 Photography Distinction

      Further Education Training Award
      Jun 2016
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