30 Acres
Episodes
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...
Episode 2 - 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...
Episode 1 - 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 Octob...
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....
Where is Jón? - 07. Bring him home
03 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
24 Feb 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
17 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...
Where is Jón? - 04. Narrowing the Focus
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the first weeks turned into the first months since Jón’s disappearance, his family struggle to come to terms with what’s going on. There were ...
Where is Jón? - 03. The Search
03 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
27 Jan 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
When Icelander Jón Jónsson arrived to Dublin in February 2019, he came for 10 days of fun - to play at the Dublin Poker Festival and to ...
Where is Jón? - Trailer
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Jón Jónsson flew into Dublin in February 2019, he was in good spirits and looking forward to playing at the Dublin Poker Festival. However, wit...
First Consignment: 02 - Attack
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
(Ep2/2) With Gadaffi’s first shipment of weapons to the IRA now landed into Ireland and dispersed around to hiding places, in this second and f...
First Consignment: 01 - Airlift
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
(Ep1/2) In the summer of 1972, Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi approached the Provisional IRA with an offer of weapons. A few months later, this first ever ...
The Real Carrie Jade: Episode 8 - Jail!
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UPDATE (April 2025): Samantha Cookes pleads guilty to fraud. She appears in court for her sentencing but all does not go smoothly. There's an outcry. ...
The Real Carrie Jade: Bonus - Irish Gardaí arrest Samantha Cookes!
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Just as we thought this series was complete, Irish Police confirm that yesterday, Friday, 12th July 2024 in County Kerry, "Gardaí arrested a woman in...
The Real Carrie Jade: 06 - I’m Sadie Harris!
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
TikTok bites back! Carrie Jade’s online supporters find out they've been played. And they're angry. They dig into Samantha's past and discover m...
The Real Carrie Jade: 05 - I’m a victim!
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
By 2020, Samantha Cookes has spent the last 6 years of her life moving around Ireland from coast to coast, pretending to be someone she’s not, befor...
The Real Carrie Jade: 04 - I’m Rebecca Fitzgerald!
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Knowing she’s been rumbled in Dublin, 'Lucy' (aka Samantha Cookes) disappears before showing up on the opposite side of the country, at a small vill...
The Real Carrie Jade: 03 - I'm Lucy Fitzwilliams!
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Samantha Cookes is now living as Lucy Fitzwilliams. She’s moved to Dublin and begins to settle into a new community in the affluent south side, quic...
The Real Carrie Jade: 02 - I'm Samantha Cookes!
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Having found out that Carrie Jade Williams never existed, we go in search of the real person behind it all, Samantha Cookes. And we go right back to w...
The Real Carrie Jade: 01 - I'm Carrie Jade Williams!
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When we first went to meet Carrie Jade Williams in 2021, we were blown away by her strength, her vision, her determination and her untold story. She w...
The Real Carrie Jade: Trailer
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Long before anyone ever heard of this story, 3yrs ago, in 2021, a 32-year-old English woman approached us with a heartbreaking story. She was dying fr...
Runaway Joe: 09 - Within Sight
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Finale. Almost 60 years after the death of June Fisk, we're at the end of our journey in our efforts to find some justice for June and her family. And...
Runaway Joe: 08 - Land of Reinvention
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Joe Maloney was released by the Irish authorities, it was always going to be unlikely that he'd simply hang around, waiting for justice to be ser...
Runaway Joe: 07 - Jailbreak
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Joe Maloney arrested and firmly behind bars for the first time in almost 20 years, everyone breathes a sigh of relief. June is finally going to g...
Runaway Joe: 06 - Closing The Net
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As information is sent into us by listeners, we begin to piece together new, unknown parts of Joe Maloney's story. We also focus in on the transatlant...
Runaway Joe: 05 - The Ripple Effect
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The actions of Joe Maloney have far reaching effects, beyond what even he could ever have imagined. Broken families. Broken homes. Broken lives. We ma...
Runaway Joe: 04 - Living Large
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Different countries. Different lives. One man becomes another and creates a life the other could never have imagined. Within two years of allegedly mu...
Runaway Joe: 03 - Manhunt
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Having been charged with the first-degree murder of his ex-wife, Joseph Michael Maloney is imprisoned and awaits trial. But in a huge embarrassment to...
Runaway Joe: 02 - June and Joe
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We travel to Rochester, New York, back to the beginning, to find out where this story really starts. What we find is a young girl who grew into a woma...
Runaway Joe: 01 - A Question of Identity
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's 1985 and a country estate owner and movie industry worker in Ireland finds himself up before a Dublin court facing an extradition trial. His wife...
Runaway Joe: Trailer
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1967, an Irish-American escaped custody on a charge of murdering his wife in upstate New York. Almost 60 years later, Joseph “Joe” Malo...
Finding Samantha: 07 – Who is Samantha Azzopardi?
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The cycle of Samantha offending, being jailed, then released and re-offending seems never ending. So as we reach the conclusion of our series, and in ...
Finding Samantha: 06 - Child's Play
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With Samantha out of prison in 2018, she was now turning 30 years old. She began working as an au pair again and was about to commit her most serious ...
Finding Samantha: 05 - The One That Got Away
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sharon receives a strange phone call from a mystery woman with something to give her. Samantha receives her first full jail sentence as we hear from t...
Finding Samantha: 04 – Catch me if you can
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With Samantha Azzopardi continuing to face police and judges, she fails to heed their warnings to change her behaviour. Instead, she continues to targ...
Finding Samantha: 03 - Samm Az
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A 15 yr old Russian gymnast turns up hoping to be adopted by a new family. A Police Prosecutor in Perth is not quite sure what kind of an individual h...
Finding Samantha: 02 - Webs of Deceit
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As we follow the trail of the Girl at the GPO – who we now know is Australian woman Samantha Azzopardi - we dive into a surreal world where fact and...
Finding Samantha: 01 - GPO Girl
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
2013 - A distressed teenage girl is found wandering in front of the General Post Office (GPO) in Dublin city centre. As suspicions rise that she’s t...
Finding Samantha: Trailer
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A woman who has created more than 100 fake identities. A young girl found wandering the streets of Dublin. A teenager deported from Canada. ...
Tiger Roll, The People's Horse: Bonus - A Word with Michael O'Leary
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bonus: Michael O'Leary officially announced on February 27th 2022 that Tiger Roll will be retired after his final race at the Cheltenham Festival on M...
Tiger Roll, The People's Horse: 07 - Horse of a Lifetime
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After his first Grand National win, Tiger attempts a feat not achieved in over 40 years - to win a second Grand National in a row. He's getting older ...
Tiger Roll, The People's Horse: 06 - The National
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The biggest prize in National Hunt racing is the Grand National, and in 2018 Tiger was entered into a race nobody ever thought he could take on. But i...
Tiger Roll, The People's Horse: 05 - Staying The Course
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As Tiger Roll matures, he’s ready for the next step up in jumps racing. But will patience and persistence from his owners and trainer give Tiger Rol...
Tiger Roll, The People's Horse: 04 - Triumph
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tiger Roll gets another new owner, Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary, a new training yard and a whole new set of challenges. He begins to make new friend...
Tiger Roll, The People's Horse: 03 - Up And Over
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sold on by Godolphin Racing, Tiger Roll is bought by Nigel and Catherine Hawke. With the help of jockey Mark Quinlan, they discover Tiger’s previous...
Tiger Roll, The People's Horse: 02 - Good Mover
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bought by one of the richest men in horseracing, the young Tiger Roll becomes part of a global operation. But as he begins to grow up, and enters trai...
Tiger Roll , The People's Horse: 01 - A Star Is Born
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A new 7-part series from RTÉ Documentary On One. To listen to all episodes, please subscribe to 'Tiger Roll, The People's Horse' from wherever you ge...
GunPlot: Bonus - Appendix Trial Tapes 4
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The fourth and final recordings we have from the Arms Trial. Taking place on the morning of October 20th 1970, this is the unedited courtroom tape rec...
GunPlot: Bonus - Appendix Trial Tapes 3
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The third of four recordings we have from the Arms Trial. Taking place on the morning of October 20th 1970, this is the unedited courtroom tape record...
GunPlot: Bonus - Appendix Trial Tapes 2
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The second of four recordings we have from the Arms Trial. Taking place on the afternoon of October 16th 1970, this is the unedited courtroom tape rec...
GunPlot: Bonus - Appendix Trial Tapes 1
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The first of four recordings we have from the Arms Trial. Taking place on the morning of October 16th 1970, this is the unedited courtroom tape record...
GunPlot: 09 - Fallout
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
More than 50 years after the Arms Crisis of 1970, the effects echo through to today. There was personal fallout, financial fallout, social fallout and...
GunPlot: 08 - The Trial
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A stunning period in Irish life comes to a climax. Four men stand before the High Court, charged with conspiring to import arms and ammunition illegal...
GunPlot: 07 - Implosion
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The country is about to wake up to some shocking news. The plan to secretly import weapons is blown wide open and the dominoes are about to start fall...
GunPlot: 06 - Closing In
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Attempts continue to bring black market sub-machine guns and pistols into Ireland. But when an Irish policeman is shot on the streets of Dublin, every...
GunPlot: 05 - Deeper
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The hunt for guns leads to a meeting in Antwerp with a shady arms dealer. The Minister for Defence issues a directive that could lead to an invasion o...
GunPlot: 04 - Muzzy
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s October 1969 and the truth is becoming murky. A plan to buy weapons begins to come together. And a group of men go shopping for guns. But what ...
GunPlot: 03 - Plan B
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A secret plan by members of the Irish Government to import guns into Ireland begins to come together. But forces are gathering in the wings to scupper...
GunPlot: 02 - Invasion
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As tensions continue to rise, the Irish Army is hurriedly moved to the border of Northern Ireland. Is this a sign that Ireland is going to take on the...
GunPlot: 01 - The Spark that Lit the Flame
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An Irish Army Captain goes on holidays – a strange kind of holiday. To a city where he knows there is likely to be ‘trouble’. He arrives as a th...
The Nobody Zone: 08 – End Of The Line
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Answers lead to more questions as we try to close the book on the Kieran Kelly story. And more stories come from the shadows of The Nobody Zone. ...
The Nobody Zone: 07 - New Evidence
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As new evidence emerges, we return to the first victim that Kieran Kelly claimed – to where it all began. A train. A death. A story.The Nobody Zone ...
The Nobody Zone: Prologue to Episode 7 & 8
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With the release of two new episodes of The Nobody Zone arriving next week (Nov 24th & Dec 1st 2020), we explore the actions and behaviour of Kier...
The Nobody Zone: 06 - Bringing it all back home
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we bring the series to a close, what stories lie buried in Kieran Kelly’s home town of Rathdowney? Have we reached the end of the line?The Nobody...
The Nobody Zone: 05 - Another Side
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As Kieran Kelly descended into a life of murder and violence, he displayed a number of sides to his character. But what were they, and what do they te...
The Nobody Zone: 04 - True Confessions
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The tape. In a smoke filled interview room in Clapham Police Station, Kieran Patrick Kelly confesses to multiple murders. Dates, times, locations. Sho...
The Nobody Zone: 03 - The Numbers Game
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why do claims of the number of Kieran Patrick Kelly's past victims keep on rising? Fresh information is put to the test.The Nobody Zone is a collabora...
The Nobody Zone: 02 - A Hidden Truth?
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015, amidst claims by a retired police officer of mass murder and cover up, the Police reopen the case files of Kieran Patrick Kelly. But is the n...
The Nobody Zone: 01 - "It Plays On Your Mind"
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A homeless Irishman is arrested on Clapham Common in London for stealing a wedding ring, only to murder another man in his police cell. When interview...
The Nobody Zone: Trailer
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1983 Kieran Patrick Kelly confessed to multiple murders. We enter a dark world where killer and victims mask their identities and where evidence is...