Radio pirate gets community service

A radio fanatic who stole and damaged FM 104 transmitting equipment and also stole property from a hospital station for his own pirate broadcasting enterprise has been ordered to do 240 hours of community service.

Paul Archer, aged 22, from Meadow Copse, Blanchardstown, stole the radio transmitting equipment, valued at £13,500 punt, from the FM 104 Radio Equipment Room at Three Rock Mountain in Stepaside, Co Dublin, with the assistance of two friends.