Freedom FM back on air: Fair City Star Sorcha Furlong to host evening show

“SORCHA is delighted to be on board!” exclaims Sean Power, Station Manager of Freedom FM, a once Templeogue-based radio station.

Freedom FM has secured Fair City star Sorcha Furlong to host an extended early evening show each week during its upcoming broadcasts on FM.

The actress, writer, and producer adds to her talents by undertaking her nationwide radio debut on Freedom FM on ‘AfterDrive,’ an early evening music program each Wednesday from 6pm to 9pm.

She is set to join a presenter roster that includes TV personality Glenda Gilson, TV and radio host, and podcast producer Aidan Power.

Freedom FM is a digital radio station playing music from the 90s and noughties.

However, each year the station is licensed by Coimisiún na Méan to broadcast across Ireland on eight FM frequencies.

Targeting Generation Y, people born between 1981 and 1997, the station plays the best in music from 1990 straight through to 2009, along with the Nineties and Noughties News Now, hourly news headlines from the day you are listening but from a random year in the 1990s or 2000s.

Sean said, “We are delighted to welcome Sorcha on to Freedom FM for our FM broadcasts across Ireland this October.

Sorcha is a star in front of and behind the screen, but with Freedom FM, she’ll be entertaining our listeners from behind the microphone for the first time.

 

She’s the newest recruit to a family of extremely talented and passionate radio presenters who together create a fantastic mix of humour, nostalgia for two wonderful decades, and a passion for the songs our listeners love.”

Sorcha said, “I can’t wait to get started with Freedom FM. The music from the 90s and noughties is the music from my youth, and I’m looking forward to sharing that passion with those who also grew up during those two decades.

So join me every Wednesday evening between 6pm and 9pm for AfterDrive, where, as the station slogan says, I’ll be reliving the 90s and noughties.”

The station will also boast a new 24-hour schedule, with the last voice broadcast on that massive 90s and noughties radio station, Atlantic 252, Enda W. Caldwell being the first voice on Freedom FM starting each weekday at 5am with The Red Eye.

Glenda Gilson returns to presenting Weekday Brunch each Wednesday between 10 a.m. and 12pm, and national radio and TV presenter Stephen Daly joins Freedom FM to present Drive Time every Monday and Tuesday from 3pm, while Northern Ireland radio host Neal McClelland kicks off the wee hours of Friday night with Dance Anthems.

Sorcha is a busy woman these days, as she is also starring in ‘Tender Mercies’ by Collete Cullen, produced by Caroline FitzGerald, at the Viking Theatre in Clontarf in Dublin until October 12.

Freedom FM will be reliving the 90s and noughties with a mixture of pop, R‘nB, dance, and rock music as well as specialist music shows around the clock during it’s time on the nation’s FM band.

The station switches on its eight transmitters on Monday, September 30, and will broadcast until October 29 to listeners in Dublin City and County, Galway, Limerick, and Cork cities, as well as to counties Wexford, Wicklow, Kildare, and north County Cork.

The station will continue its digital broadcasts during that time too via freedomfm or through it’s free online app available on the App Store or the Google Play Store.

Sean would like to thank all thirty-four volunteers who work at Freedom FM for helping to keep it running.