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  • Self Aid: How Ireland tried to sing its way out of unemployment

    Self Aid: How Ireland tried to sing its way out of unemployment
    2025/07/14

    In 1986, Ireland staged its own answer to Live Aid – but this time, the crisis was at home. With U2, Van Morrison and Thin Lizzy on stage, Self Aid aimed to tackle mass unemployment with music, but did it inspire change or just create headlines and high notes?


    Host: Fionnán Sheahan Guests: Tony O’Brien and Tony Boland

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    25 分
  • Colm O’Regan: “I did a gig where I got a jumper as payment”

    Colm O’Regan: “I did a gig where I got a jumper as payment”
    2025/07/13
    This Sunday’s Indo Daily is brought to you by our sister podcast Money Talks, a podcast from the Irish Independent hosted by Katie Byrne, focused on our relationship with money - from the first time we discovered it right up to how we spend it today. This week celebrated writer, broadcaster and stand-up comedian Colm O’Regan goes under the monetary microscope as he discusses the strangest job he’s ever had, some of the unique payments he’s received in comedy over the years, and what it’s really like out there for a best-selling author. Host: Katie Byrne. Guest: Colm O’Regan The content of this podcast is for information purposes and does not constitute investment advice or recommendation of any investment product.

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    52 分
  • Peter McGann: “Irish comedy has come a long way since bad jokes about the drunk Irishman.”

    Peter McGann: “Irish comedy has come a long way since bad jokes about the drunk Irishman.”
    2025/07/12
    Today’s Indo Daily comes from one of our sister podcasts, Under The Grill. The actor and viral comedian Peter McGann joins Kevin Dundon and Caoimhe Young in the Under the Grill kitchen to chat about his favourite dish of all time, pre-show nerves and his part in Sky Atlantic’s Small Town, Big Story, which was written and directed by Chris O’Dowd. Wicklow-born Peter says: “Those jokes like ‘I came home, I was so drunk, I put the rashers in the toaster’, that slap stuff is mostly gone from the comedy stage.” The dad-of-one adds: “My dish of choice is a seafood chowder in a sourdough bowl because it brings me back it to the best summer of my life. It’s just delicious. I love seafood of any kind. “I was in college in Galway one summer and I was chasing a girl, who is now my wife, and there used to be a stall in Galway selling seafood chowder in a bread bowl. It brings back such good memories.”

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    35 分
  • Bringing back the bedsit? Housing Minister James Browne’s ‘radical’ new apartment plan

    Bringing back the bedsit? Housing Minister James Browne’s ‘radical’ new apartment plan
    2025/07/11
    Housing — it's the defining issue of a generation. Now, the Housing Minister has unveiled what’s being billed as a radical plan to ‘revolutionise’ the housing sector. Critics have already taken aim at key aspects of the plan such as smaller apartments and fewer windows, but is this exactly the kind of radical shift needed to finally boost supply? Host; Tessa Fleming, Guests; Mary Regan, Caroline O’Doherty, Orla Hegarty

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    24 分
  • 40 years of low fares and high drama: How Ryanair changed Europe one controversy at a time

    40 years of low fares and high drama: How Ryanair changed Europe one controversy at a time
    2025/07/10

    40 years ago this week, at 8.30am on July 8, 1985, a 15-seater aircraft with a full complement of passengers took off from Waterford airport to London Gatwick on the inaugural flight of a new Irish airline called Ryanair. Air travel, and in some ways Ireland itself, would never be the same again.


    Fast forward four decades and you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who hasn’t travelled with Ryanair and, let's be honest, complained about them. But, despite the extra charges, minimal leg room and marketing stunts, we just keep coming back for more.


    Host: Kevin Doyle Guest: John Mulligan

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    26 分
  • The crucifix, the marriage cert and the National Ploughing Championship: The Joseph Grogan inquest

    The crucifix, the marriage cert and the National Ploughing Championship: The Joseph Grogan inquest
    2025/07/09

    When Offaly farmer Joseph Grogan died hours after marrying his partner, the inquest that followed was anything but simple. Now the circumstances around his death are being investigated, with an inquest that heard about the consummation of the marriage, the embalming of the body and religious beliefs.

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    Host: Fionnán Sheahan Guest: Catherine Fegan

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    You can read more of Catherine Fegan's coverage of this story - The crucifix, the marriage cert and the Ploughing – tetchy exchanges at inquest into death of Offaly farmer Joseph Grogan

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    23 分
  • The bankrupt Dublin Jeweller, the fake gems and the missing diamonds

    The bankrupt Dublin Jeweller, the fake gems and the missing diamonds
    2025/07/07
    In recent weeks, The Sunday Independent revealed that a customer took legal action against Empress Fine Jewels, which was ordered to pay her nearly €35,000, after diamond rings she entrusted to the store were reported stolen while being taken by a pensioner to another location to be cleaned. She received a call the next day from the jeweller, telling her the rings had been stolen from the pensioner on a Dublin Bus. Another customer of the same Dublin-based jeweller was “disappointed but not surprised” to learn that a €3,000 emerald and diamond ring she purchased contains fake gemstones. Ali Bracken joins Kevin Doyle to speak about her investigation into Empress Fine Jewels. Host; Kevin Doyle, Guest; Ali Bracken

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    20 分
  • The €550,000 man - but is Sean Sweeney our MetroLink messiah or future fall guy?

    The €550,000 man - but is Sean Sweeney our MetroLink messiah or future fall guy?
    2025/07/07
    Sean Sweeney has been handed €550k and a ticking clock – now the future of MetroLink rests on his shoulders. Can the straight-talking CEO break through over 20 years of delays, or is Dublin's long-awaited transport project doomed again? Host: Dave Hanratty Guest: Niamh Horan and Gabija Gataveckaite

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    27 分