Since 1967, the facility has been occupied by the former British Army Major Paddy Roy Bates ; his associates and family claim that it is an independent sovereign state.

On 2 September 1967, the fort was occupied by Major Paddy Roy Bates, a British subject and pirate radio broadcaster, who ejected a competing group of pirate broadcasters.

For example, a British man named Paddy Roy Bates declared a nation called Sealand in 1967 after occupying an abandoned navy fortification off the British coast.

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* Roy F. Foster: " The Irishness of Elizabeth Bowen " in Paddy & Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and English History ( 1993 )

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In 1966 Paddy Roy Bates, who operated Radio Essex, and Ronan O ' Rahilly, who operated Radio Caroline, landed on Fort Roughs and occupied it.

Past LBC presenters include: Adrian Allen ; Carol Allen ; Dominic Allen ; Mike Allen ; Toby Anstis ; Dickie Arbiter ; Tre Azam ; Phillip Bacon ; Bill Bailey ; David Bassett ; * Jeni Barnett ; Simon Bates ; Jeremy Beadle ; Alison Bell ; Bill Bingham ; Therese Birch ; Frank Bough ; Tommy Boyd ; Gyles Brandreth ; Bill Buckley ; Paul Callan ; Douglas Cameron ; Mike Carlton ; Mike Carson ; Clare Catford ; Marcus Churchill ; Nick Conrad ; Andy Crane ; Jamie Crick ; Jono Coleman ; Steve Crozier ; Tim Crook ; Gino D ' Acampo ; Dan Damon ; Peter Deeley ; Anne Diamond ; Mike Dickin ; Richard Dallyn ; Jenny Eclair ; Richard Fairbrass ; Caroline Feraday ; John_Forrest_ ( Producer-Director ); Mariella Frostrup ; George Gale ; Krishnan Guru-Murthy ; Boy George ; Charlie Gibson ; Charles Golding ; Angie Greaves ; Eric Hall ; Bob Harris ; Brian Hayes ; Chris Hawkins ; Phillip Hodson ; Bob Holness ; Eamonn Holmes ; Jon Holmes ; Fred Housego ; Rufus Hound ; Howard Hughes ; Sue Jameson ; Bob Johnson ; Bryn Jones ; Steve Jones ; Barry Jordan ; Charlie Jordan ; Lesley Judd ; Henry Kelly ; Allan King ; Gary King ; Jenny Lacey ; Iain Lee ; Richard Littlejohn ; Wendy Lloyd ; Sir Nicholas Lloyd ; Adrian Love ; Dave Luddy ; Kelvin MacKenzie ; Richard Mackney ; Mike Mendoza ; Daisy McAndrew ; Rod Lucas ; Carol McGiffin ; Monty Modlin ; Nathan Morley ; Douglas Moffatt ; Bel Mooney ; Jane Moore ; Elliot Moss ; Pete Murray ; Paddy O ' Connell ; Rod Lucas ; Tom Parker-Bowles ; Michael Parkinson ; Frank Partridge ; John Perkins ; David Prever ; Martin Popplewell ; Gill Pyrah ; Anna Raeburn ; Angela Rippon ; Rowland Rivron ; Richard Robbins ; Paul Ross ; Kenny Sansom ; Adrian Scott ; Valerie Singleton ; Penny Smith ; Jon Snow ; Julia Somerville ; Laurence Spicer ; Dr Pam Spurr ; Janet Street-Porter ; Peter Stringfellow ; Carol Thatcher ; Sandi Toksvig ; Petroc Trelawny ; Michael Van Straten ; Robbie Vincent ; Becky Walsh ; Sandy Warr ; Brian Widlake ; James Williams, Matthew Wright, and Martin Young ;.

* The inaugural World Welterweight Champion is Paddy Duffy of Boston, Massachusetts who is recognised following his 17th round knockout of Billy McMillan at Fort Foote, Virginia on 30 October.

In Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha set in Ireland in the 1960s, the titular protagonist watches the show and mentions Napoleon Solo at several points in the novel.

Ida finally convinces a still reluctant Paddy to buy the farm she and Sean have their hearts set on.

Shortly thereafter, the four joined forces to form Planxty, recording their first single on January 18, 1972, appearing together on RTE's The Late, Late Show soon after, and playing their first show on March 6 – a 30 minute set at " The Mugs Gig "-on a bill that included balladeer Paddy Reilly.

Patrick " Paddy " Hannan ( baptised 26 April 1840 – 4 November 1925 ) was a gold prospector whose discovery on 17 June 1893 near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia set off a gold rush in the area.

Whilst not a pact, ahead of the 1997 election Labour Leader Tony Blair and Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown set up the Labour-Liberal Democrat joint committee on constitutional reform to discuss devolution in Wales and Scotland, and led to Prime Minister Tony Blair setting up a joint Lib – Lab cabinet committee.

At Fermoy in 1937 he threw 195 ’ 4 ”-more than seven feet ahead of the world record set by his old friend Paddy ' Chicken ' Ryan in 1913.

In November 1894, Carnegie set out on his second prospecting expedition, this time in the company of two prospectors: an American named Jim Conley and an Irish-Victorian named Paddy Egan.

The IRA had almost been destroyed in the 1940s and Magan immediately set out to reorganise the political and military wings of the Republican Movement, namely the IRA and Sinn Féin, along with Michael Traynor, Paddy McLogan, and Tomás Mac Curtain.

Paddy Cahill, who came to the area to set up a cattle station was the first buffalo hunter to operate in the region.

Paddy Petch, author of The Complete Flat-Coated Retriever, refers to these dogs as the " Peter Pan " of the retriever breeds, given they never quite grow up.

Paddy wondered why ITV have not snapped up Kay.

In the lead up to the 1997 general election, a coalition government was discussed by Tony Blair and the Lib Dems, according to Paddy Ashdown's The Ashdown Diaries.

Instead, Frankie has Al Capone and his men setting up an ambush and opening fire on Lonergan, Aaron Harms, James " Ragtime " Howard, Paddy Maloney, Cornielius " Needles " Ferry, and James Hart.

A third, Paddy, served as a county councillor in Roscommon although in the later stages of his career in the 1980s left the party to join up with Neil Blaney's Independent Fianna Fáil party.

In 1962, after setting up Claddagh Records, he asked his friend, the famed uileann piper Paddy Moloney, to form a group for a one-off album.

Max and Paddy turn up unannounced at his birthday party and surprise ' The Wolfster ', as well as several other old faces from home present for the party.

Potter, as ever, fails to listen, and the whole wing later see him on the TV news talking about ' the doormen ' Max and Paddy: thus showing up their tall stories as lies.

During the 1930s, the club won a further three League titles and five FAI Cups with Irish internationals, Paddy Moore and Jimmy Dunne playing key roles in their success, supported by crowds of up to 30, 000 people at Glenmalure Park.

Ashdown will join up former Portsmouth team-mates Jason Pearce, David Norris and Luke Varney and will face competition from newly signing goalkeeper Paddy Kenny to earn the first choice goalkeeper ahead of the new season.

McGlinchey is the subject of the songs " Paddy Public Enemy Number One " by Shane MacGowan of The Pogues and " Hands up Trousers Down " by The Irish Brigade.

Barry also appeared in a Paddy McGuinness stand up.

Paddy Doyle of Finglas, who lost his daughter, son-in-law, and two infant granddaughters in the Parnell Street explosion, described the scene inside Dublin's city morgue as having been like a " slaughterhouse ", with workers " putting arms and legs together to make up a body ".

Group members Paddy and Martin McAloon were brought up in the nearby village of Witton Gilbert.

Eventually, Paddy dies in a drunken binge, leaving Emmeline and Michael, now attractively grown up, all alone with each other.

From that sideline position Keher pucked the sliothar as if going for a point, however, the sliothar dropped short, deceiving Cork goalkeeper Paddy Barry, and ending up in the back of the net.

The club ended up borrowing two players from the opposing team North Sydney to play for them, who were ' Paddy ' Boland and Bert Odbert.

He presided over the Rachel Ross murder trial for which Paddy Meehan was convicted and served seven years before being pardoned and Lord Grant's summing up in this case was heavily criticised as indeed was his decision to put the case to the jury.

Brian sent Max and Paddy to pick up a truck load of beer from France to use at the club and everything was going all right.

When a last minute booking of band Right Said Frank results in the band members stealing stereos from all the cars parked outside, as Max confronts the thieves, Paddy rushes to back him up and together they tackle the two men to the ground.

Following the destruction of the Phoenix Club at the climax of the first series of Phoenix Nights, Brian Potter, whilst attempting to reform his staff line up, calls Max and Paddy as they are driving elderly Asian gentlemen to the mosque and singing at the tops of their voices to Is This the Way to Amarillo by Tony Christie, which is playing on Chorley FM, in what was to become an iconic moment for the series.

Tasked with acquiring alcohol in order to supply the club following the loss of Potter ’ s licence and subsequently his contract with his alcohol supplier, Max and Paddy drive a van to France, and unwittingly pick up two Chinese immigrants in the process.

Broadcasting House is a current affairs programme on BBC Radio 4, presented by Paddy O ' Connell.

Matthew Bannister was the first stand-in presenter when Glover went on maternity leave, but on gaining his own new obituary strand on Radio 4, Last Word, most editions of BH in the spring / summer of 2006 were presented by Working Lunch and BBC Three presenter Paddy O ' Connell.

Former presenters of Radio Ireland / Today FM include Philip Boucher-Hayes, Mark Byrne, Mark Cagney, Enda Caldwell, Breffni Clack, Alison Curtis ( The Last Splash and The Alison Curtis Show featuring Mister Ed Smith ), Tom Dunne ( Pet Sounds ), Eamon Dunphy ( original presenter of The Last Word ), Bob Gallico, Tommy Greene, Anne-Marie Hourihan ( originally Eamon Dunphy's co-host ), Bill Hughes, Robbie Irwin ( weekend sports programs presenter ), Mark Kavanagh ( dance show ), Ann Marie Kelly, John Kelly, Stephen Keogh, Tracey Lee, Nails Mahoney ( briefly ), Marty Miller ( now rockin ' out on Radio Nova 100FM ) the late Dermot Morgan, Paddy Murray and Liam Mackey ( Murray and Mackey ), Ian Noctor ( newsreader who also for a period presented Dad Rock ) Ed Myers, Paul Power, Ita Ryan ( The Celtic Reel ), John Ryan ( original presenter of The Sunday Supplement ), Donal Scannell, Jon Troy ( Between The Sheets-love songs ), and Karl Tsigdinos ( The River of Soul ).

Aunty Jack was created for a proposed ABC Radio children's radio series, " The Aunty Jack Show ", commissioned by Paddy Conroy, former head of ABC TV now cable channel manager, which was intended to replace the long-running children's radio series The Argonauts, which was about to be cancelled.

Radio and TV talk show pioneers John Reagan " Tex " McCrary, and his wife, model and movie star Jinx Falkenburg, with their sons Kevin " Jock " McCrary and John Reagan " Paddy " McCrary, lived on and off the Jock Whitney estate from 1947 to 1977.