Dara Ó Briain wants to talk about great ways to waste your timePodcast review: Dara Ó Briain’s Timewasters is relatable, funny and surprisingSat May 13 2023 - 05:00
Free State With Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning aims at too many easy targetsPodcast review: This pair only really get interesting when they turn to political issuesSat May 6 2023 - 05:00
Can’t get enough of Succession? This is the podcast for youKara Swisher digs into the creative cloices and narrative twists as the hit show unspools its final seriesSat Apr 29 2023 - 05:00
Two inner-city Dubliners Talking Bollox? Home truths from the kitchen tablePodcast review: Calvin O’Brien and Terence Power’s Talking Bollox has chemistry, charm, smarts and some pacy banterSat Apr 22 2023 - 05:00
I’m Not a Monster: The knotty story of Shamima Begum, a London teen turned exiled terroristPodcast review: Journalist Josh Baker, a careful storyteller who can craft a tale while staying true to complexity, has his work cut outSat Apr 15 2023 - 05:00
Ian Lynch of Lankum’s astounding archive of traditional musicPodcast review: Fire Draw Near’s host Ian Lynch drops knowledge with easeSat Apr 8 2023 - 05:00
Bertie Ahern’s podcast tells a powerful storyPodcast review: Former taoiseach’s tone is conversational rather than confrontationalSat Apr 1 2023 - 06:00
Suspect: If you are a true crime devotee, this may be exactly what you orderedPodcast review: A reminder that the criminal justice process seldom brings the tidy resolution we craveSat Mar 25 2023 - 05:00
The Witch Trials of JK Rowling: A partial talePodcast review: Four parts in and the series has had barely any time for transgender voicesSat Mar 18 2023 - 05:00
Don’t tell anyone, but I just heard something you wouldn’t believe...Podcast review: Normal Gossip is a tea-spilling treatSat Mar 11 2023 - 05:00
An Irish success story about the realities of emigrant life in AustraliaPodcast review: Caroline McKenna’s A County Down Under explores what it’s like to live on the other side of the world from your homelandSat Mar 4 2023 - 05:00
Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett: Three guys, a mic and €80m cheque from AmazonPodcast review: They are rich and have the connections, but Smartless is not your usual famous-person-talking showSat Feb 25 2023 - 05:00
How a Cork duo turned chats with their mammies into a hit podcastPodcast review: Friends and flatmates Kevin Twomey and PJ Kirby put a mic they spontaneously bought on Amazon prime to sparkling effect in I’m Grand MamSat Feb 18 2023 - 05:00
She was a young, talented Cuban artist who fell to her death. Her famous husband beat the murder chargePodcast review: Death of an Artist revisits the story of Ana Mendieta, who died in 1985Sat Feb 11 2023 - 05:00
Is this Ireland’s scariest podcast?Podcast review: the latest series of Irish horror podcast Petrified is firmly located on home turfSat Feb 4 2023 - 05:00
The Rest is History: Scholarship with a light touchPodcast review: Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook have been topping the charts with their highly entertaining and erudite historical reflectionsSat Jan 28 2023 - 05:00
Did a husband murder his wife or is he in prison for a crime he did not commit?Podcast review: Bone Valley has it all - a cold case, a man in prison who says he is innocent, a renegade prosecutor, a confessed murdererSat Jan 21 2023 - 05:00
‘You should be able to pick your vulva out in a line-up’ and other essential medical factsPodcast review: Dr Doireann’s Podcast invites experts in specific fields of women’s health to drop their knowledgeSat Jan 14 2023 - 05:00
‘They tried to shut us all up’: Women silenced for decades relive their traumaPodcast review: Over the course of six episodes, Redacted Lives hears from women who were forced into mother and baby homesSat Jan 7 2023 - 05:00
Podcast review: In Kathy Burke’s hands, death has never sounded quite so amusingPodcast review: Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake is bound to be embraced by a nation that dines out on death noticesSat Dec 24 2022 - 05:00
Men explaining things to me has never felt so politically expedientPodcast review: Let Me Explain with Seán Defoe is as far from mansplaining as you can getSat Dec 17 2022 - 05:00
The disturbing truth about a huge educational errorPodcast review: American schools adopted a method of teaching children how to read that harmed a generation. How did it happen?Sat Dec 10 2022 - 05:00
Podcasts in 2022 started with a boycott and ended with a next-level horror showDespite a post-pandemic slowdown in growth, the format is expanding its boundaries all the timeSat Dec 10 2022 - 04:27
If Books Could Kill: Sharp takedowns of dumb takesPodcast review: Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri go to town each week on what they call airport booksSat Dec 3 2022 - 05:00
An Irishman Abroad: How a lost notebook began a nine-year podcast success storyPodcast review: Jarlath Regan’s gentle interview technique and ability to put his guests at ease has seen his audio empire expandSat Nov 26 2022 - 05:00
Case 63: a wild, gripping and highly bingeable radio playPodcast review: Tale of a future pandemic turns classic format into podcast goldSat Nov 19 2022 - 05:00
Pig Iron: The many moral compromises of war reportingPodcast review: Pig iron is a fascinating story of one journalist’s death in South SudanSat Nov 12 2022 - 05:00
20 new podcasts to get hooked on: From conspiracies to Covid to a Dublin scandalTackling all manner of subjects, these stories are all deserving of attention: lend them your earsSun Nov 6 2022 - 05:00
Obscene: The Dublin Scandal – As grotesque and bizarre as everPodcast review: The BBC’s retelling of the Malcolm Macarthur case, hosted by actor Adrian Dunbar, tells a scandalous story still unfinishedSat Nov 5 2022 - 05:00
Mamia & Me: Amy Huberman’s relatable chats about parenting Podcast review: Listeners are here for the star power more than the expertiseSat Oct 29 2022 - 04:15
Belly of the Beast podcast: The spy who helped Michael Collins crack the British codePodcast review: You might think you know Ned Broy from Neil Jordan’s film, but this podcast tells his true storySat Oct 22 2022 - 06:33
A vital chronicling of the war in Ukraine, one brutal day at a timePodcast review: The BBC’s Ukrainecast began on the first day of the Russian invasionSat Oct 15 2022 - 05:00
Vogue Williams and Joanne McNally talk plastic surgery, bad boyfriends and booze blackoutsPodcast review: My Therapist Ghosted Me takes a subversive, no-holds-barred approachSun Oct 9 2022 - 05:00
The podcast that explores Love Island, the Kardashians and their profound cultural impactPodcast review: BBC’s Unreal covers everything from Big Brother to Love Island and the KardashiansSat Oct 1 2022 - 05:00
Tommy, Hector and Laurita: An uncontrolled mouth, a minister for craic, and a randy auntPodcast review: Tommy Tiernan, Hector O hEochagáin and Laurita Blewitt are funny and philosophicalSat Sep 24 2022 - 07:00
Who Killed Daphne: A whodunnit podcast with a political edgePodcast review: Series keeps the voice of the murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia aliveSat Sep 17 2022 - 05:00
Three Castles Burning podcast: Donal Fallon’s gritty history of Dublin riots and rebels Historian Donal Fallon chronicles the many stories of Dublin’s pastSat Sep 10 2022 - 05:00
Michael Gambon: ‘This is easy, acting. Standing there with a spear. Anyone can do that’The Phibsborough boy who became a Londoner, then an actor – is back in his native city for a production of Krapp’s Last Tape, the perfect play for a former engineerSat Apr 24 2010 - 01:00