Priest launches ‘pirate’ station to broadcast Mass to parishioners

AN east Clare priest has launched a “pirate” radio service to bring the Gospel to his housebound parishioners every Sunday morning.

Fr Brendan Quinlivan is to broadcast 11 o’clock Mass for a second time this Sunday from Feakle church after receiving “a very positive feedback” to last Sunday’s first broadcast to homes in the area.

A number of elderly people in the parish are housebound and unable to get to church and with the combination of an aerial and a transmitter, Fr Quinlivan is broadcasting Mass to homes within an 8km radius on the FM frequency at FM104.3.