Multi Award Winning Audio Doc Unit on podcast & @RTERadio1. Winner of 400+ awards. Newest podcast series (2025) - #First Conviction https://xitter.cf/t.co/sSIUdocZex
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We’re delighted to win @PrixEuropa Best European Audio Fiction series of the year 2026 for our co-production with @RTEDramaOnOne Brilliantly written by Colm Tobin and Aidan O’Donovan, this is RTÉ’s first ever win in this category! It’s well worth a listen
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Since releasing Pirate Predator, we’ve uncovered a document written by Eamon Cooke that supports a previously dismissed witness account - which placed missing Dublin schoolboy Philip Cairns in Cooke’s company on the day he disappeared.
Listen/watch here ⬇️youtu.be/Y2q6sa2mk80?is=n5-4…
Really looking forward to our chat on all things investigative audio - and our series - at the Ah Hear podcast tent at #ep26 Sunday at 1.20pm. Please drop in. Be lovely to see you! #electricpicnic
Great to see our latest series Pirate Predator listed amongst @Apple ‘Best so far 2026’ list of podcasts. All episodes are now available to binge listen from wherever you get your podcasts.
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A comprehensive and gripping podcast series about the vile abuser Captain Eamonn Cooke, who hid in plain sight using the cover of his pirate radio station.
This morning we published the 7th and final episode of Pirate Predator where Cooke's victims now call for a public inquiry into how he was able to continue abusing hundreds of children for decades - before being finally locked up in jail open.spotify.com/episode/5hM…
This morning we published the 7th and final episode of Pirate Predator where Cooke's victims now call for a public inquiry into how he was able to continue abusing hundreds of children for decades - before being finally locked up in jail open.spotify.com/episode/5hM…
Really great to see justice prevail today. Together with RTÉ Investigates, we’re honoured to have been able to shine a light on the story of crime that simply never happened. So many questions still remain unanswered in a system that failed time and time again…
A couple have had their convictions for the female genital mutilation of their one-year-old daughter, which were quashed after they spent two years in prison, declared a miscarriage of justice
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Delighted our series, First Conviction, scooped top prize at this year’s Justice Media Awards out of 674 entries! A joint investigation from RTÉ Investigates and ourselves narrated by Oscar-nominated Ruth Negga with the soundtrack composed by Mel Mercier,
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Ep5 #PiratePredator published this morning. As the 1980s dawn, a new breed of super pirate radio stations arrive to rewrite the rulebook. But as the decade progresses, Eamon Cooke’s dark hidden double life continues in the shadows [email protected] open.spotify.com/episode/7nx…
Ep4 of Pirate Predator dropped this morning and we hear Eamon Cooke deny abuse allegations live on air while we also learn of his friendship with #JimmySavile #listen #podcast rte.ie/piratepredator
Our newest series Pirate Predator has begun publishing and tells the story of Eamon Cooke - a man of many faces who, on one hand, became a cult like figure while on the other became one of Ireland's most prolific child sexual abusers. rte.ie/piratepredator
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Culture That Made Me: Cork radio presenter Justin McCarthy picks his touchstones, including Philp Larkin, RTÉ Documentary on One podcasts and John Prine: irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/… @IEArtsCulture @MrJustinMac @RTEdoconone
We’re delighted that the soundtrack to our series #WhereisJon has been shortlisted at this years Icelandic Music awards in the film and theatre music category!! Huge congratulations to composer @ulfureldjarn First time ever a soundtrack to a podcast series has been shortlisted!!!
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A new development has brought the so-called 'GPO Girl' back into the spotlight
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CALL-OUT: We’re currently working on a podcast series about Eamonn Cooke, one of Ireland’s most prolific predators.
If you have any information about Cooke contact us anonymously via our tips page: tinyurl.com/Tip-page - or email [email protected]
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Today’s marks the 7th anniversary of the disappearance of Jón Jónsson. @GardaInfo have issued a new appeal for info. If you know anything at all, please contact Ballymun Garda Station 016664400 or the Garda Confidential Telephone Line 1800 666 111 rte.ie/news/2026/0209/155743…
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Pope Leo XIV has apologised to abuse survivor David Ryan, who featured in the RTÉ documentary 'Blackrock Boys', following a meeting between the two at the Vatican. Mr Ryan described the experience as amazing and credited the Pope for his empathy
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New Doc: Coming up on RTÉ Radio 1 at 4pm. "Jamaica Daly" tells the story of Meg Daly who travels to Jamaica to confront the uncomfortable fact that a few generations ago her Galway family owned a plantation - and slaves. If you miss it or want to share it: rte.ie/radio/doconone/155601…
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Abuse survivor David Ryan of @RTEdoconone Blackrock Boys is preparing for a rare private audience with Pope Leo on Monday
Reporting @drivetimerte shortly
