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Icelander J\u00f3n J\u00f3nsson was attending a poker tournament in Dublin in February 2019 when he disappeared. The Garda\u2019s first missing persons alert was not made until more than 48 later \u2014 those 48 hours, as we hear repeatedly during the series, are crucial in such a search.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Blending Irish and Icelandic reporting, the seven part series from the RT\u00c9 Documentary on One team is a tense, ongoing mystery that scrutinises alleged Garda missteps and a family\u2019s long fight for answers.<\/p>\n

N\u00ed Hansae\u00a0<\/p>\n

The School of Celtic Studies\u2019 warm, conversational podcast, its conversations explore Medieval Irish kings and the English invasion, early Medieval Irish philosophy, and storytelling and Irish manuscripts.<\/p>\n

Stolen Sister\u00a0<\/p>\n

Narrated by Roz Purcell, Stolen Sister is about the manhunt for Ireland\u2019s “first serial killers”, John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans, who had recently been released from prison. With extradition back to the UK looming over them, they had a savage plan: Kidnap, rape, and kill one woman a week for as long as they could get away with it.<\/p>\n

Land of the Free\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"SeanSean Murray: Land of the Free<\/p>\n

A three-part series headed by<\/p>\n

\n Irish Examiner\n <\/p>\n

reporter Sean Murray, he travelled across the US, from New York to Chicago to Boston to find out how the Irish were feeling as Trump took office. Things have likely gotten a lot bleaker since.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a Lot I Haven\u2019t Asked\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hannah Donelon gathers stories from the Irish diaspora in Manchester, tracing migration from 1945 to around 1975 through everyday voices, music, and memory. An intimate portrait of ordinary lives shaping a city.<\/p>\n

Get Around To It\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aoife Barry and Lauren Murphy revived their culture chat podcast after a two-year break in September. This smart, weekly show covers everything from TV obsessions to cultural trends.<\/p>\n

Undercover Irish\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hosted by Eolan Ryng, Undercover Irish has released 17 episodes across the year. As he explains: \u201cIt\u2019s simply a journey through history, through language, through culture, mainly around Irish and Irishness, sometimes national and sometimes international, sometimes stories, sometimes ballads \u2014 a little bit of everything.” A playful, thoughtful series.<\/p>\n

Spoke Yokes: Cycling Around the World\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"SpokeSpoke Yokes: Mark Graham and Ellie O’Byrne.<\/p>\n

Mark Graham and Ellie O\u2019Byrne \u2014 a journalist who has featured regularly in the <\/p>\n

\n Irish Examiner\n <\/p>\n

, document their two-year bike journey across continents, recording from the road with all the chaos and charm intact. A gentle, atmospheric travel diary full of mishaps, kindness, and adventure.<\/p>\n

Will It Stay Fine?<\/p>\n

Created by a trio of artists, this seven-part series weaves together voices of fishers, surfers, sauna owners, conservationists, food-growers, business owners, and visitors with those of climate, ecology and biodiversity experts, to reflect on past and future challenges and celebrate what they hold precious about the Maharees in the Dingle peninsula.<\/p>\n

Culture Pigs\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kate Demolder, who features regularly in the Irish Examiner, and movie expert and journalist Rory Cashin say Culture Pigs tackles lowbrow things in a highbrow way and highbrow things in a lowbrow way. You\u2019ll enjoy the banter and easy laughs \u2014 and learn plenty along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Icelander J\u00f3n J\u00f3nsson was attending a poker tournament in Dublin in February 2019 when he disappeared. The Garda\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,6405,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-193874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-music-movies-reviews-munster","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}