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| The Real Carrie Jade: Bonus - Irish Gardaí arrest Samantha Cookes! | 13 Jul 2024 | 00:02:28 | |
Just as we thought 'The Real Carrie Jade' series was complete, Irish Police confirm that yesterday, Friday, 12th July 2024 in County Kerry, "Gardaí arrested a woman in her 30s as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged welfare fraud in Tralee. She is currently detained at a Garda station in the Southern Region under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984. Investigations are ongoing.” UPDATE: On Saturday afternoon, July 13th, 2024, Samantha Cookes was remanded in custody after being charged with the alleged theft of €59,094 from the Department of Social Protection - and further “serious charges” may follow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The Real Carrie Jade: 06 - I’m Sadie Harris! | 12 Jul 2024 | 00:33:43 | |
A new multi-part true crime series from RTÉ Documentary On One. To get free early access to next episodes (one week in advance of here) please subscribe to 'The Real Carrie Jade' podcast feed from wherever you get your podcasts. Episodes released each Friday. Episode 6 - I’m Sadie Harris! In our final episode, TikTok bites back! Carrie Jade’s online supporters find out they've been played. And they're angry. They dig into Samantha's past and discover more victims. As her most famous alias is finally exposed, Samantha Cookes disappears, leaving behind thousands in unpaid rent. And then Sadie Harris shows up... As our series concludes, we also reveal new tips that have come in since we began - and we hand this story over to film producers we’ve been working with. Watch out for an upcoming TV documentary on Samantha Cookes due to air on RTÉ One in autumn 2024! (Ep 6/6) ... Credits: The Real Carrie Jade is written, reported and produced by Ronan Kelly. Narrated by Justine Stafford. Original music soundtrack by Fergal O'Connor. Sound designer is Ruth Kennington and the executive producer is Liam O’Brien. Production assistance by Nicoline Greer. Legal advice from Darren Lynch and Deirdre Ann Kelly. Marketing and promotions are by Maria Buckley, Amy O'Driscoll and Fiona Burke. Press and Publicity by Jilly McDonough. The designer is Niamh McKeown. Audio Product Support by Nigel Wheatley. Additional online editorial content by Anna Joyce. Contact us documentaries@rte.ie Episodes released weekly, each Friday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The Year Franco Stole the Eurovision | 10 May 2024 | 00:44:18 | |
“What will come 2nd to Congratulations?” pondered the press in the run-up to the final of the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest, which was staged at the Royal Albert Hall in London. “Congratulations,” performed by Cliff Richard, and went on to sell over 250 million records, was the runaway favourite to win. Phil Coulter and Bill Martin – the pair who composed Sandie Shaw’s winning entry, Puppet On A String, a year earlier – wrote the song. However, everyone was in for a huge, huge shock. Cliff Richard was pipped to the post by Spanish singer, 20-year-old Massiel. The rumour mill went into overdrive with accusations that General Franco rigged the competition. Why would the Spanish dictator be interested in interfering in a song contest? And did he actually do it... (First Broadcast 2014) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The Grief of a Nation | 09 Oct 2020 | 00:44:18 | |
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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Scenes from a Return Journey | 07 Dec 2009 | 00:39:48 | |
In this radio documentary, writer Anne Kennedy takes a glimpse at the past, present and future through encounters in a Californian summer (Broadcast 1992) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Flying for the Silver Screen | 07 Dec 2009 | 00:41:49 | |
A radio documentary about the Irish Air Corps officers who flew for films shot in Ireland during the 1960s (Broadcast 1997) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Glen and Me - Lifeline and Death Row Prisoner | 07 Dec 2009 | 00:41:46 | |
In this radio documentary Hilary Huges shares her experience of letter-writing and visits to Glen, a prisoner on death row (Broadcast 1997) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange | 06 Dec 2009 | 00:38:59 | |
The Boyne Valley Mounds at Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth in Co. Meath in Ireland were built around 3200BC - making them older than Stonehenge in England and the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. This documentary tells the story of them (Broadcast 1982) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Orange The Purple and The Blue | 06 Dec 2009 | 00:39:15 | |
Proinsias O'Conluain delves into the world of the Orange Order, its history and its role into the future (Broadcast 1973) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: In the Shadow of Death | 06 Dec 2009 | 00:43:14 | |
Countess Mary de Galway O'Kelly was born Mary Cummins in Dublin in April 1905. She was teaching in Brussels during the German invasion of May 1940 and soon became involved with the Belgian resistance in World War II. (Broadcast 1993) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Neccessitys Child | 06 Dec 2009 | 00:43:54 | |
This documentary tells the story of inventors and their inventions in Ireland in the early 1980's. Made and broadcast in an era of huge emigration and unemployment, it's a story of challenge, creativeness and sheer stuborness sometimes (Broadcast 1983) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Shamrock Bar - The Irish in Moscow | 06 Dec 2009 | 00:39:17 | |
Moscow might not be the most obvious spot for an Irish pub - especially back in the early 1990's. This is the story of Moscow's transition to a market economy and the Irish involvement in the city at that time. (Broadcast 1993) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: The Burning of Bridget Cleary - Witch Burning 1895 | 06 Dec 2009 | 00:42:00 | |
A grisly story about the torture and murder of Bridget Cleary in Tipperary in 1895, whose husband believed her to be a witch or possessed by the fairies (Broadcast 1995). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Unwritten Ireland | 06 Dec 2009 | 00:48:20 | |
The rich oral history of Ireland could have been lost had the Irish Folklore Commission not preserved them for generations to come. From 1935-1971 they collected a treasure trove of photos, music and stories from all over Ireland (First broadcast 1974) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Timor Leste: Coming of Age | 02 Oct 2020 | 00:42:45 | |
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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: A Question of Faith | 06 Dec 2009 | 00:36:58 | |
This is the story of a family's reaction to the news that their daughter has chosen to become a Catholic nun. In entering a convent, she has chosen to enter into an enclosed order - virtually shutting herself off from the outside world. (Broadcast 1993) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: To End It All | 05 Dec 2009 | 00:42:56 | |
Ireland has one of the highest rates of suicide in Western Europe. It’s one of the major issues affecting Irish society but why is this and what can be done? (Broadcast 1979) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Gordon Bennett Race | 05 Dec 2009 | 00:49:04 | |
The Gordon Bennett Cup Race was the biggest annual motor race in the world in the early 1900s. Automobile clubs around the world competed. In 1903, in unusual circumstances, it became the first ever international motor race held in Ireland (Broadcast 1974) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: After the Plays are Over | 05 Dec 2009 | 00:58:10 | |
A look at the 13th Dublin Theatre Festival with Sean MacReamoinn. The two week event showcased the Irish premiere of Muderous Angels by Conor Cruise O'Brien. (First Broadcast 1971) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: With the Irish in the Middle East | 04 Dec 2009 | 00:43:00 | |
30,000 Irish soldiers have been deployed since 1978 as peacekeepers for the UN in the Lebanon attempting to keep the peace in one of the most volatile regions on the planet. (Broadcast 1978) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: The Last Cattle Drive | 04 Dec 2009 | 00:41:09 | |
A 75 year old man re-enacts and remembers a time when cattle were herding through the streets and lanes of Dublin. (2006) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Mengistu's shadow | 04 Dec 2009 | 00:42:57 | |
From 1990 through to 1995, Ethopia journeyed from dictatorship to democracy. Helen Shaw visited Ethopia in 1990 when the country was under the dictatorship of Mengistu Haile Mariamand. 5 years later she returns to see how life has changed (Broadcast 1995) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: The Summer of the Moving Statues (2007) | 03 Dec 2009 | 00:41:09 | |
A look back at the summer of 1985, when Ireland was in the grip of the phenomenon of 'moving statues'. Eyewitnesses give there accounts of what they saw in Ballinspittle, Co,Cork and Carns, Co. Sligo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Flight of the Enola Gay | 03 Dec 2009 | 00:42:14 | |
The 'Enola Gay' was the bomber plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945. This documentary meets the navigator of that deadly journey - Theodore 'Dutch' Van Kirk. 50 yrs, has he any doubts on their catastophic actions? (Broadcast 1995) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Every man an Einstein | 03 Dec 2009 | 00:42:14 | |
In 1978, John Skehan set out to capture how the young people of Ireland view the scientific future of the world. Did anyone predict that the world would be such a difference place by 2010? (Broadcast 1978) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Polonium and the Piano Player (Pt.2) | 25 Sep 2020 | 00:44:34 | |
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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Church and State | 03 Dec 2009 | 00:39:10 | |
In 1978, Karol Wojtyla, a Pole was elected Pope John Paul II despite the fact that that at the time his homeland was under communist rule and an aesthetic state. (Broadcast 1978) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Fish Culture | 02 Dec 2009 | 00:38:30 | |
As an island nation and for time immemorial, fishing has been part and parcel of Irish life. As times changed and needs changed, fishing and fishermen have changed too. The 'iasc' as we call them are hugely important for many communities (Broadcast 1985) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive (2003):The Thebes Road Movie | 01 Dec 2009 | 00:43:57 | |
In ‘The Thebes Road Movie’, Documentary-Maker Kaye Mortley makes a journey across Europe, to Thebes in Greece. Kaye tells the story of her transcontinental travel and the varieties of mystery she encounters along the way. (First Broadcast 2003) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: No Meadows in Manhattan | 30 Nov 2009 | 00:37:47 | |
An award winning documentary by the writer Brian Leyden, inspired by a short story of rural decline, produced by Julian Vignoles. (Broadcast 1991) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Soviet Voices | 30 Nov 2009 | 00:48:37 | |
In 1973, Sean MacReamoinn travelled to the Soviet Union to view everyday life. He looked at places of cultural significance, thriving communities, religion, sports, hard working conditions, peoples rights and a state coming to terms with its warfare past Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Satellite to Nenagh | 30 Nov 2009 | 00:39:54 | |
In this radio documentary, Ronan Kelly takes us behind the scenes of RTÉ's coverage of the 1992 General Election. (Broadcast 1994) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: If You Don't Want A Catholic | 30 Nov 2009 | 00:27:48 | |
A radio documentary that tells the story of a Belfast woman’s pilgrimage to see her idols Glasgow Rangers playing Celtic (Broadcast 1993) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Rock Of Ages | 30 Nov 2009 | 00:41:11 | |
John Quinn experiences the magic and mystery of Skellig Rock, the monastic settlement off the south-west coast of Kerry (Broadcast 2003) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Tommy's Story | 30 Nov 2009 | 00:29:12 | |
Tommy Walsh talks of the last days of his wife Jo who died from cancer in November 1993 and recalls happier, earlier years. (Broadcast 1995) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Sonny's Story | 30 Nov 2009 | 00:59:42 | |
Radio documentary on songwriter and musician Sonny Condell. Presented by Dave Fanning, produced by Julian Vignoles. (Broadcast 1982) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Polonium and the Piano Player (Pt.1) | 18 Sep 2020 | 00:43:33 | |
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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Georgie | 30 Nov 2009 | 00:41:33 | |
A radio documentary about the death of Georgie Moore at West Kensington Station in London in 1972, as told by his sister Peggy (Broadcast 1994) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Shame on the Titanic | 30 Nov 2009 | 00:38:53 | |
A dramatised radio documentary on Bruce Ismay, owner of the Titanic who found refuge in Connemara. (Broadcast 1987) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: The Swallow From Egg to Africa | 30 Nov 2009 | 00:42:43 | |
Eric Dempsey looks at the amazing journey of the swallow, which sees in the space of five months, the bird go from being an egg to arriving in Africa. (Broadcast 2004) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Invisible Prince | 29 Nov 2009 | 00:49:38 | |
From Huguenot nobility Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a 19th century Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of his period and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. (Broadcast 1973) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Disaster at Whiddy | 28 Nov 2009 | 00:44:31 | |
The French oil tanker Betelgeuse exploded in West Cork, at the offshore jetty of the Whiddy Island Oil Terminal in January 1979. 50 people lost their lives. This is the story of that disaster - broadcast just 10 days after the explosion. (Broadcast 1979) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: Simple Simon lives here | 28 Nov 2009 | 00:51:03 | |
This doc traces the birth of the Simon Community in Ireland. We meet the people whose vision helped shape a community for the homeless of Ireland. In the early '70s Simon offices were opening up all over - Cork, Dublin, Galway, Belfast (Broadcast 1973) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: When the trees were green | 28 Nov 2009 | 00:42:00 | |
A dramatised account of an 8yr who was first diagnosed with appendicitis, then rediagnosed with cancer - and given just weeks to live. It turned out that both diagnoses were wrong - and that's only the start of the story (Broadcast 1979) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: How Do You Say | 27 Nov 2009 | 00:57:57 | |
A look into the ups and downs of learning a new language and the benefits of being multilingual. The programme talks to students and teachers about what the major obstacles are and recommends techniques to improve learning (Broadcast 1969) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: The Man on the Moons | 26 Nov 2009 | 00:39:37 | |
The story of how a farm labourer from Carrickmacross ended up having his name inscribed on a plaque that now resides on the moon. (2009) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: The Cowslips | 26 Nov 2009 | 00:33:26 | |
The cattle way of life in Dublin is a way of life that now only exists in memory. From fairs and farms throughout Ireland, cattle arrived into Dublin each week - being driven through the streets and into the milking parlours. (Broadcast 1978) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Age, Sex, Location | 11 Sep 2020 | 00:44:55 | |
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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive (1999): Sweetbreads in Soho | 24 Nov 2009 | 00:42:48 | |
Richard Corrigan started his working life as an unpromising and shy 14 year old, in the kitchen of an Athboy hotel. This job marked the beginning of a love affair with food and many years later, he is an award winning chef, living in the city of London. (First Broadcast 1999) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DocArchive: On The Roslea Pad | 23 Nov 2009 | 00:49:36 | |
Roslea is a village in Co. Fermanagh surrounded by small lakes and the river Finn. About 500 people live there. Former US President Bill Clinton claimed his forebears came from Roslea. This is the history, lore and music of Roslea (Broadcast 1973) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||