Liffey Sound FM Information

Liffey Sound FM is a not for profit Community Radio service run by volunteers licensed to serve the Community of Lucan and its environs. Liffey Sound FM is committed to serving its community irrespective of creed, class, colour or race; to giving a voice to those not served by the mainstream broadcasting services; to educating, informing and inspiring people in our community and to promoting a sense of community and civic pride. Liffey Sound FM recognizes the right of all to access to community radio and offers its facilities to the community of Lucan to enable that society to express itself freely and without editorial interference, subject to the law and accepted standards of taste and decency so as to promote cultural diversity, community integration and identity, thereby creating an informed, democratic, peaceful, tolerant and pluralist community; Liffey Sound FM seeks to ensure that all residents of Lucan have the opportunity to participate in its ownership which shall be democratically managed and shall actively seek out the participation by all in its programming for the benefit, entertainment and development of the community; Liffey Sound FM shall ensure that its editorial policy is free from government, commercial, religious and political influences; Liffey Sound FM shall ensure access by minorities, minority interests, and marginalized and disadvantaged groups and subject to the resources available to it will assist such groups in making use of its facilitites. Liffey Sound FM shall, having regard to the resources available, provide training and access to production and distribution facilities to encourage local creative talent and foster the traditions of the community so as to achieve the objectives set out in this Mission Statement.