Back in 2009, when this doc was first broadcast, Mayo footballers had lost 5 All Ireland finals since their last win in 1951. They’ve since lost another 5 All Ireland finals. Looking back at the previous c.60 years of hurt wasn’t easy. But that could all change in September 2021 when Mayo get another chance to finally find success after 69 years of striving to become All Ireland senior football champions. (First broadcast 2009) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 30, 2021•42 min•Ep. 1
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 three-day street battle, now known as 'the Battle of the Bogside', begins. And it changes everything (Ep1/8). To continue listening to this series, please subscribe to the 'GunPlot' podcast feed (Available from wherever you get your podcasts). Or visit visit www.rte.ie/gunplot Credits: GunPlot was written, recorded and produced by Ronan Kelly and Nicoline ...
Apr 12, 2021•32 min•Ep. 1
In 2021, Tiger Roll aims to create unique sporting history by winning a third Grand National in a row. We follow his unlikely path to glory, from the very beginning, through the people and places that have made him the horse of a lifetime. A new 6-part podcast series from RTÉ Documentary On One in Ireland. New episodes every Monday morning, beginning February 22nd 2021.Subscribe via iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tiger-roll-the-peoples-horse/id1553770463Subscribe via Spotify: http...
Mar 04, 2021•1 min•Ep. 1
Peggy O'Connell's strange isolation was something resembling quarantine. Peggy, a elderly woman from Cavan, combines her half-century-old memories with extracts from her diary to tell a vivid, sometimes painful, more often amusing story of seven years with tuberculosis (TB). The garden shed was only the culmination of a strange period of tough treatments and a form of social alienation that was sometimes as bad as being a patient in Sir Patrick Dunn's hospital. "All my teenager years I had to wa...
Jan 06, 2021•42 min•Ep. 1
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. But is it too late to find the truth? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 09, 2020•52 min•Ep. 1
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 is a collaboration between RTÉ's Documentary On One in Ireland and Third Ear productions in Denmark.For more, visit rte.ie/thenobodyzone..The Nobody Zone is written and narrated by Tim Hinman.Storyline and production is by Tim Hinman and Krister Moltzen.Original idea, research and recordings are by Robert Mulhern, Nicoline Greer and Liam O'Brien with...
Dec 09, 2020•40 min•Ep. 1
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 Kieran Patrick Kelly with a forensic psychologist and criminologist. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 08, 2020•27 min•Ep. 1
What stories lie buried in Kieran Kelly’s home town of Rathdowney? Have we reached the end of the line? A new 8-part podcast series from RTÉ's Documentary On One in Ireland and Third Ear Productions in Denmark. Episode 6/8. (Originally released March 24th 2020). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 07, 2020•40 min•Ep. 1
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 tell us about him? An 8-part podcast series from RTÉ's Documentary On One in Ireland and Third Ear Productions in Denmark. Episode 5/8. (Originally released March 17th 2020). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 06, 2020•45 min•Ep. 1
The tape. In a smoke filled interview room in Clapham Police Station, Kieran Patrick Kelly confesses to multiple murders. Dates, times, locations. Should we believe everything he's saying? A new 8-part podcast series from RTÉ's Documentary On One in Ireland and Third Ear Productions in Denmark. Episode 4/8. (Originally released March 10th 2020). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 05, 2020•41 min•Ep. 1
Why do claims of the number of Kieran Patrick Kelly's past victims keep on rising? Fresh information is put to the test. A new 8-part podcast series from RTÉ's Documentary On One in Ireland and Third Ear Productions in Denmark. Episode 3/8. (Originally released March 3rd 2020). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 03, 2020•36 min•Ep. 1
In 2015, amidst claims by a retired police officer of mass murder and cover up, the British Police reopen the case files of Kieran Patrick Kelly. But is the new evidence to be trusted? A new 8-part podcast series from RTÉ’s Documentary On One in Ireland and Third Ear Productions in Denmark. Episode 2/8. (Originally released February 25th 2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 02, 2020•39 min•Ep. 1
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 interviewed by police, he confesses to multiple murders. A new 8-part podcast series from RTÉ’s Documentary On One in Ireland and Third Ear Productions in Denmark. Episode 1/8. (Originally released Feb 18th 2020) To continue listening to this series, please subscribe to 'The Nobody Zone' podcast feed (Available from wherever you get your podcasts) or visit ...
Dec 01, 2020•35 min•Ep. 1
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 as hard to find, as it is to trust. A new 6 part true crime podcast from RTÉ in Ireland and Third Ear in Denmark. New episodes every Tuesday morning, beginning February 18th 2020. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 30, 2020•30 sec•Ep. 1
On November 21st 1920, British security forces stormed a Gaelic football match in Croke Park Dublin, killing 14 and wounding dozens more. 100 yrs later, Vincent Murphy sets out on a 100 mile cycle as he explores his Grand Uncle Gus McCarthy’s story as one of the Tipperary players involved in what became known as Bloody Sunday (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 13, 2020•45 min•Ep. 1
Decades ago The Wallace Sisters, Sheila and Nora, ran a small newsagents in Cork city. While many bought their paper and tobacco there, few knew of the secrets it held as an IRA Brigade HQ during the War of Independence. These fearless sisters led a double life from intelligence gathering to spy handling and deciphering codes. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 06, 2020•51 min•Ep. 1
In January every year in a small Norwegian town, a race starts. It’s one of the longest, toughest dog sled races in the world and it’s dominated by tough Nordic men. In 2019, someone different turns up at the start with her dogs. She’s a 5’1”, bespectacled, 35-year-old woman & she’s racing for Ireland. Heads are turned then the race starts. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 16, 2020•48 min•Ep. 1
On November 22nd 1963, two shots were taken in Dallas, Texas. One was a gunshot, killing the President of The United States, John F. Kennedy. The other, was a camera shot which changed two families’ lives forever. Those families went their separate ways in life - until decades later, when they were about to have another date with destiny. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 09, 2020•44 min•Ep. 1
In 1999, Sarah Mac Donald travelled to East Timor as a journalist undercover. Whilst violence erupted around her, Sarah became godmother to a little Timorese boy, Natalizio. But as the years went by, she lost touch with him and his family. 20 years after they last met, Sarah is returning to an independent Timor Leste, in search Natalizio. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 02, 2020•43 min•Ep. 1
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 problems. With relations between UK and Moscow deteriorating, Derek escapes to a new life. But the nuclear poison Polonium-210 appears to have decided his fate. (Originally produced by Sky News Storycast) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 25, 2020•45 min•Ep. 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. Derek Conlon accidentally drank from the same radioactive cup used to poison Litvinenko – dragging him into a Russian world of espionage, murder and deceit. (Originally produced by Sky News Storycast) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 18, 2020•44 min•Ep. 1
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 children about. Now, that stranger can be in your house, via an online device. We meet the people who police the internet, a survivor, and the Garda unit focused on stopping online child abuse. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 11, 2020•45 min•Ep. 1
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. A group of young Irish doctors, nurses and support staff followed, bringing hope and healing to the shattered town of St-Lô as the survivors struggled to rebuild their lives among the ruins. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 04, 2020•46 min•Ep. 1
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. Based in the small Irish towns of Listowel and Abbeyfeale, a quiet local betting coup in the days leading up the race saw bookies faced with paying out odds of almost a thousand to one. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 28, 2020•41 min•Ep. 1
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. He later admitted to taking part in a massive, seven million dollar armed robbery in the US before starting a new life as a writer of award winning crime novels. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 21, 2020•44 min•Ep. 1
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 domestic violence in Australia. How did a woman, born in Cork and raised in Crumlin, Dublin end up there? Partly because of two men – both German – one she loved and one she came to despise. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 14, 2020•42 min•Ep. 1
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 robes. Hare Krishnas. The girls decide to join them – for the men and the free food - but soon they are hooked on the strict life and become Hare Krishna nuns. But the dream sours. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 07, 2020•46 min•Ep. 1
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, where he discovered he was a naturally talented athlete. It took more than that to get him to the 1996 Olympics where he ran for Ireland. Now after years away from the sport, Shane is back. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 31, 2020•46 min•Ep. 1
In 1972, a group of Irish protest riders gate crashed the Olympic Games road cycling race in Munich, Germany. They’d hatched a secret plan to scupper the official Irish Olympic cycling team. But events at the Games threw their own plans into chaos. Almost 50 years later a family is still trying to recapture a lost Olympic dream. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 24, 2020•42 min•Ep. 1
In 1981, heroin took hold of certain parts of Dublin. It changed everything for the communities it was affected by. The impact of addiction on the people there was devastating. But these communities weren’t going to just take it and the people decided to fight back against the dealers. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 10, 2020•53 min•Ep. 1
