Podcast Episodes

Stephen Walker: ‘There would have been no Good Friday Agreement without David Trimble’

Sam McBride sits down with Stephen Walker who has published a biography on the Nobel Peace Prize winner, entitled ‘Peacemaker’. 

‘David Trimble: Peace…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Border Bandit Brendan ‘B-Man’ O’Callaghan looking at jailtime over encrochat cocaine dealing

A Crossmaglen man with Republican family connections has plead guilty to drug and money laundering. The so-called ‘B-Man’, 37-year-old Brendan O’Cal…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

No Tyrone Goldrush: Why Stormont confusion and local division mean gold worth billions might stay under the ground

There are billions of pounds worth of gold under the Sperrin Mountains in County Tyrone. A US-based company, Darlriadan Resources, wants to mine it. …

7 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Soldier F’ Bloody Sunday trial begins in Belfast - Nicola Tallant reports

The trial of Soldier F has begun in Belfast. The former paratrooper is accused of murdering James Wray and William McKinney, two of the thirteen civi…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

'The scientist who wasn’t there’: The incredible story of a fantasist father, was he a spy?

Michael Briggs has a famous scientist but as it turns out he had faked some of his qualifications. He also faked research that supposedly showed the …

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Marianne Smyth: The American con-woman who claimed to be on IRA Army Council and to be Jennifer Anniston

Marianne Smyth had a long career on both sides of the Atlantic as a swindler and a con-woman. Smyth has now been convicted in Downpatrick of swindlin…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

What does the murder of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk mean for an angry America?

Thirty-one-year-old conservative activist and father-of-two Charlie Kirk was fatally shot during a public event on Wednesday. With an intense manhunt…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

September 2005 Riots: The three days of mayhem as police and soldiers battled loyalist rioters and gunmen

Riots were a familiar feature of the Troubles, but with political violence now almost a thing of the past, rioting is rare. However, sparked by a dec…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Sean Hegarty: How is the brutal double murderer able to be on Facebook despite being in prison?

Sean Hegarty is a brutal double murderer. He is currently in Northern Ireland’s maximum-security prison, Maghaberry. But he is somehow updating a Fac…

7 months, 4 weeks ago

The death of Brian Murphy: Dublin's class distinctions and southside privilege on trial

Twenty-five years ago, as a long summer drew to a close, a night out ended in tragedy. It changed the lives of four young men forever, ending another…

8 months ago