Liam Walsh

Experience

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  Dept of Education and Skills

  Jun 1978 - Aug 2001

  Teacher
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  Mount Sion Silver Band

  Feb 1979 - Feb 2002

  Musician

  Musical Director

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  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.

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  RTE

  Jun 1988 - Aug 1989

  Radio Producer
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  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".

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  Waterpark National School

  Sept 2001 - Aug 2014

  School Principal
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  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.

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  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.

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  Freelance

  Sept 2014 - now

  Photographer

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

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  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.

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  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!”

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  Funland Radio

  Mar 2020 - now

  Radio Presenter
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  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.

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  KL1 Radio

  Nov 2021 - now

  Radio Presenter