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Nurse Roche
Episode 1
District Nurse, Margaret Roche, recalls working as a rural midwife in Co. Wexford from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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13 years, 1 month ago
A Murder in the Neighbourhood
Episode 1
A shocking incident in a quiet Canadian town, as told by the neighbours who unwittingly found themselves caught in the middle of a domestic abuse inc…
13 years, 1 month ago
The Hook: A People and a Place
Episode 1
In 2004, Wexford Co. Council built new public housing in the villages of Campile and Fethard-on-Sea and to mark this project the Council also commiss…
13 years, 1 month ago
Peter Daly - Good Cop/ Bad Cop?
Episode 1
An incredible story. 80yr old Donegal man Peter Daly was a member of the notoriously corrupt NYPD Special Investigations Unit during the 1970s. Peter…
13 years, 1 month ago
Smashing Pianos
Episode 1
Why people are breaking up pianos, what the keening means at a funeral in South Africa and the boxing barber/hair-cutting boxer - extracts from three…
13 years, 1 month ago
First Days, Final Days...Revisited
Episode 1
20 years ago the Documentary Unit put a microphone on a small boy starting national school in Dublin. Now, 20 years later, where is everyone? Especia…
13 years, 2 months ago
Undue Alarm
Episode 1
The biggest known oil reserve in the world. A tiny community of aboriginal Canadians. And a Limerick GP. How an Irish doctor came face to face with t…
13 years, 2 months ago
The Dublin Lock-Picking Club
Episode 1
TOG is a hackerspace group. Every other Tuesday they meet to pick locks. They have a table full of padlocks that range from simple 3-pin ones to more…
13 years, 2 months ago
A Very Brief Encounter
Episode 1
It's 1913 and when a Longford woman's engagement to a rich Glasnevin resident is derailed, where does she turn for comfort - the Dublin Courts. Miss …
13 years, 2 months ago
Mike Fitz - Drifter
Episode 1
'Drifting' is the 'art' of driving a car sideways. Mike Fitz says he can park better with a handbrake than conventional manoeuvering. It sounds scary…
13 years, 2 months ago