(This article is about the pirate radio station which operated in Dublin in the early 1980s. For the current day licensed station, see Radio Nova 100FM (Ireland).) Radio Nova was a pirate radio station broadcasting from Dublin, Ireland. Owned and operated by the UK pirate radio veteran Chris Cary, the station’s first broadcasts were during the summer of 1981 on 88.5 MHz FM and 819 kHz AM.