We caught up with Tracy to chat music, radio and why representation can't be a"box-ticking" exercise."I've been in radio for 20 years," Tracy Clifford says as her glam team prep her for our digital cover shoot."Which is crazy because I'm only 10."
Over that period, the landscape of Irish radio has changed, particularly in the diversity of voices we get to hear. When I ask what it was like to witness changes unfurl from the inside, Tracy recalls how she got to work with stations where gender equality was always a priority.of what was being put on air at the radio stations I worked in," she explains.
"Radio makes you laugh. You just have the craic, and I think with Irish people, that’s what we like to do."felt that the radio was like a friend to people. It was a voice and it was comfort. For some people, the radio might be the only voice they hear in a day." Indeed, a career in radio let Tracy marry her two main interests – music and having the craic. Needless to say, she's more than equipped for her next big project: The Ultimate Irish Playlist on RTÉ One.t’s all voted for by the Irish public, which was over 100,000 votes. It’s a trip down memory lane.t’s also old songs reimagined in ways you’ve never heard before.