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Timor Leste: Coming of Age
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In 1999, Sarah Mac Donald travelled to East Timor as a journalist undercover. Whilst violence erupted around her, Sarah became godmother to a little …
6 years ago
Polonium and the Piano Player (Pt.2)
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Part 2 of 2. As Derek Conlon finds out he’s been poisoned and dragged into a world of Russian espionage, he realises that’s just the start of his pro…
6 years ago
Polonium and the Piano Player (Pt.1)
Episode 1
Ep 1 of 2. When ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko was murdered in a nuclear poisoning in London in 2006, an Irish man got caught up in the crossfire. D…
6 years, 1 month ago
Age, Sex, Location
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The amount of children being targeted by online predators is increasing every year. The strange man on the street used to be the person we warned our…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Hospital the Irish Shipped to France
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A pioneering adventure in overseas aid, when the Irish Red Cross assembled a 100-bed hospital and shipped it to bombed-out Normandy post-World War II…
6 years, 1 month ago
A Very Irish Coup
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On a wet October Saturday over forty years ago a greyhound finished a race at Mullingar race track. The event was to turn Irish gambling upside down.…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Seven Million Dollar Man
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Sam Millar’s life reads like pure fiction. After joining the IRA as a teenager, he spent years on the notorious blanket protest in Northern Ireland. …
6 years, 1 month ago
Substantial Helen
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Helen Oxenham is getting a medal from the Queen of England – although Helen doesn’t have much time for the Queen. It’s for her work with victims of d…
6 years, 2 months ago
The Deadly Saris
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Two 15-year old Dublin girls were mitching, drinking and shoplifting. Then they hear a group of handsome men singing - with shaved heads and saffron …
6 years, 2 months ago
Shane Healy - Back On Track
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Shane Healy has gone the distance in life. After spending years in an orphanage as a child, he travelled widely before hitch-hiking around the US, wh…
6 years, 2 months ago