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30 Acres: 04 - List of Demands

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s Christmastime at 30 Acres and Glenn, Iseult and Holly are hiding out in Glenn’s bomb shelter with their hostage, Sean Granite. Alistair Crowe...

30 Acres: 03 - The Prisoner

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The developer of 30 Acres, Sean Granite, was once a titan of the construction industry. Now he’s a prisoner in Glenn’s jeep as it hurtles across t...

30 Acres: 02 - The Hunt for Sean Granite

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Holly, Glenn and Iseult have received repossession letters. Soon all three will be evicted from their homes. But they’re not giving up without a fig...

30 Acres: 01 - 30 Acres Says No

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

December 2009. Colm is an investigative reporter for RTÉ, assigned to the story of an enormous ghost estate called 30 Acres. Only three inhabitants r...

First Conviction: Bonus - Behind the Scenes

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As a combined project of a podcast series and TV documentary, First Conviction was over 15 months in production. In this bonus episode - and in a firs...

First Conviction: 06 - Limbo

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Having spent two years in jail, Sayeed and Halawa are relieved when the Court of Appeal make a ruling on their case. As they return home to their chil...

First Conviction: Update

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Just a quick message to say we’re pausing the release of the concluding episode of this series until this day next week - Wednesday November 12th, t...

First Conviction: 05 - 750 days

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Having been found guilty and sentenced to 5 years in prison, Sayeed and Halawa are taken to separate jails in Ireland to serve out their sentences. De...

First Conviction: 04 - Verdict

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sayeed and Halawa are facing two charges in court - an act of FGM against their daughter, and child cruelty. If found guilty, they face up to 14 years...

First Conviction: 03 - Trial One

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Having had their children under supervision and monitored by authorities for three years, and having had to sign on bail twice weekly during that time...

First Conviction: 02 - Waiting & Hoping

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s only after four days in hospital that Sayeed and Halawa begin to understand they’re in real difficulty. No one appears to believe them. Withi...

First Conviction: 01 - The Incident

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

September 2016 is where this story begins. A young married couple are at home in Dublin on a Friday morning with their two young children. Having chan...

First Conviction: Trailer

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An investigation into the case of a couple imprisoned for a crime against their child - that never happened… Publishing weekly from October 8th...

Stolen Sister: Bonus - Petition and Witness Accounts

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Over the last seven weeks we have heard from many people who have had interactions with John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans. Up to twenty people have provide...

Stolen Sister: 07 - A Chance for Justice

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As this series has been publishing, we’ve been contacted by many listeners, including about a dozen contacts from people who are new witnesses to ev...

Stolen Sister: 06 - Irrelevant Victims

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Having lived over 40 years with the loss of Elizabeth, the Plunkett family are taken aback when in 2023, they’re approached by the Parole Board. Joh...

Stolen Sister: 05 - The Trials

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With the heartbreaking recovery of both Elizabeth and Mary’s remains, the investigation’s focus sharpens. The men, isolated in solitary confinemen...

Stolen Sister: 04 - Confessions

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With the nation on high alert, two Gardaí in Galway spot and arrest Ireland’s two most wanted men. Quickly brought in for questioning, Shaw and Eva...

Stolen Sister: 03 - On the Hunt

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As suspicions grow around two Englishmen roaming freely around Ireland, Gardaí issue a nationwide alert for their capture. But no one knows these men...

Stolen Sister: 02 - Missing

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On Saturday, August 28th, 1976, Elizabeth Plunkett walked out of a pub in Brittas Bay - and vanished without a trace. Over the following week, her dis...

Stolen Sister: 01 - Elizabeth

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The summer of 1976 brought an extraordinary three-month heatwave to Ireland. 23yr old Elizabeth Plunkett had just fallen in love and been on holiday t...

Stolen Sister: Trailer

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On the last weekend of the summer of 1976, a young woman named Elizabeth Plunkett went away for a night with friends to Brittas Bay in county Wicklow....

Voice Notes Before Voice Notes

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Skype shut down on May 5th, 2025. Coincidentally and appropriately, it was the day this documentary, by Austin Kenny, was first broadcast.  It’...

The Real Carrie Jade: Episode 8 - Jail!

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

UPDATE: Samantha Cookes pleads guilty to fraud. She appears in court for her sentencing but all does not go smoothly. There's an outcry. A shout from ...

Where is Jón? - 07. Bring him home

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the search site turns into a dig site, Jón’s family await news of the search. If Jón is found, it will end all hope and a new chapter of grief ...

Where is Jón? - 06. The Notes

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

During the first five years of Jón’s disappearance, through to February 2024, there was no indication of where Jón’s remains might lie. But behi...

Where is Jón? - 05. Rumours and Secrets

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As all the first firsts begin to pass by, Jón’s birthday, Christmas, family events - everyone in Jón’s circle struggles with his loss. With no c...

Where is Jón? - 04. Narrowing the Focus

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To get free early access to next episodes (one week in advance of here) please subscribe to 'Where is Jón?' podcast feed from wherever you get your p...

Where is Jón? - 03. The Search

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The vast majority of missing persons are found within 72 hours of being last seen. But if someone is not found within that timeframe, the chances of d...

Where is Jón? - 02. Jón Bóndi

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Jón left the Bonnington hotel, his partner Jana didn’t initially think too much about him walking away. But, as that day moved on, s...

Where is Jón? - 01: Without a Trace

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new multi-part true crime series from RTÉ Documentary On One and RÚV. To get free early access to next episodes (one week in adva...

Where is Jón? - Trailer

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Publishing from January 27th 2025 - a new multi-episodic series from RTÉ in Ireland and RÚV in Iceland. To get early access, subscribe to our series...

Harwood, Johanna Harwood

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Irish woman Johanna Harwood is not widely-known, but she should be. She wrote the screenplays for the James Bond movies 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia With...

The Reindeer Santa Left Behind

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An Exclusive - Recorded over the last year, this is the incredible story which began last Christmas Eve just as Santa arrived into Ireland and Blitzen...

Girl From The Letter

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

John Richards is on a quest to solve a mystery. He's looking for a girl who he only learned about through a letter written to his father. And he last ...

Don't Go Far

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A multi award winning doc. And still one of our most popular ever docs! It's 1985, and two Dublin children, with a knack for bunking off school and fa...

Con Carey and the Twelve Apostles

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

April 2nd 2023 marks the 45th anniversary of the death of Con Carey, the only man in Kerry to be buried twice. The story itself goes back to April 197...

Osborn v. Germany

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When armed police arrived at Oisín Osborn’s home in Hamburg, Germany in May 2019, he was in his underpants, wearing a saucepan on his head. He...

A Letter Home

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over the centuries, millions of people emigrated from the island of Ireland to the United States. Every one of those people left someone behind as the...

Invisible Men - Ireland's Incels

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Paul – not his real name – is in his thirties, and he has never had a sexual or romantic relationship. He goes to work and gets on with his collea...

In Search of Safety

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On the evening of November 20th 2014 a young Irish-American student named Devin Reardon was at his University campus in Florida. Alarms started to go ...

Hello Spaceboy

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

25 years ago David Bowie became the first major artist to release an album as a download. Around the same time, one of Bowie’s super fans, Irishman ...

First Consignment: 02 – Attack

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

(Ep2/2). With Gadaffi’s first shipment of weapons to the IRA now landed at Shannon airport and dispersed around to hiding places, in this secon...

First Consignment: 01 – Airlift

28 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

(Ep1/2) In the summer of 1972, Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi made an approach to the Provisional IRA with an offer of weapons. This was to become the firs...

Heart and Soul Horses

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2008, Celine Cawley was killed in her home in Howth in County Dublin. Just over a year later, her husband was convicted of her manslaughter and sen...

Nastiness

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The world of Irish politics has changed. There's more personal abuse and stress on public representatives - both inside and outside Leinster House - t...

Bob Marley In The Park

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The only gig that Bob Marley and the Wailers ever played in Ireland turned out to be Bob’s last ever outdoor show, before he tragically died of canc...

The Real Carrie Jade: Bonus - Irish Gardaí arrest Samantha Cookes!

13 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Just as we thought 'The Real Carrie Jade' series was complete, Irish Police confirm that yesterday, Friday, 12th July 2024 in County Kerry, "Gardaí a...