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  • 35 minutes 29 seconds
    Peter McGann: “Irish comedy has come a long way since bad jokes about the drunk Irishman.”
    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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    12 July 2025, 12:05 am
  • 23 minutes 48 seconds
    Bringing back the bedsit? Housing Minister James Browne’s ‘radical’ new apartment plan
    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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    11 July 2025, 12:05 am
  • 26 minutes 13 seconds
    40 years of low fares and high drama: How Ryanair changed Europe one controversy at a time

    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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    10 July 2025, 12:05 am
  • 23 minutes 12 seconds
    The crucifix, the marriage cert and the National Ploughing Championship: The Joseph Grogan inquest

    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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    9 July 2025, 12:05 am
  • 20 minutes 2 seconds
    The bankrupt Dublin Jeweller, the fake gems and the missing diamonds
    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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    7 July 2025, 11:05 pm
  • 26 minutes 39 seconds
    The €550,000 man - but is Sean Sweeney our MetroLink messiah or future fall guy?
    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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    7 July 2025, 12:05 am
  • 44 minutes 30 seconds
    Jenny Claffey: “Affording something doesn’t mean you have the money in your bank account”

    Sunday’s Indo Daily is brought to you by one of our sister podcasts; 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.

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    Each week, you’ll hear anecdotes, advice, and eyebrow-raising admissions from Katie's guests as they delve into their finances and how it impacts their lives – the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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    Formerly of runaway success It Galz, Jenny Claffey now hosts Red Room; a true crime podcast that digs deep into strange unsolved mysteries. On this episode, Jenny explains how redundancy led her to become a self-made entrepreneur in the digital space, the highs and lows of podcasting revenue, her spending obsessions and apprehensions, how to build an online community, and the financial advice that still pays off today.

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    6 July 2025, 12:05 am
  • 43 minutes 19 seconds
    Nicola Tallant – “The Monk dined on a haloumi burger on our first real face to face’

    Today's Indo Daily is brought to you by one of our sister podcasts Under the Grill.

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    Podcaster Nicola Tallant joins Kevin Dundon and Caoimhe Young in the Under the Grill kitchen to chat about her dad’s roast chicken dinner, breaking bread with criminals and why we are fascinated by crime.

    “I mean there was no coddle or any of this sort of stuff even though you think he's such a traditional dub, don't you?

    “I'd say he's better taste than you and I. He's floating around the Mediterranean and he's probably eaten very nicely.   So, he ordered a haloumi burger, and I had embarrassingly had chicken wings. What an amateur I am.

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    The Crime World host reveals that eating habits can tell a lot about how dangerous a murderer is, remembering killer Joe O’Reilly who, she says, didn’t lose his appetite before appealing for information on the death of his wife on The Late Late Show.

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    5 July 2025, 8:32 am
  • 27 minutes 9 seconds
    How George Gibney has run from child abuse allegations for over 30 years
    For 30 years disgraced former Irish swim coach George Gibney (77) has avoided child abuse allegations, relocating around the United States and refusing to answer questions about his past. On Tuesday he was detained by US marshals on foot of the extradition request, and Gibney now sits in a Florida jail as officials attempt to extradite him to Ireland to face 79 charges of sexual offences against four young girls between 1971 and 1981. Today on The Indo Daily, Tessa Fleming is joined by Maeve Sheahan, Senior Correspondent with The Sunday Independent, and Chalkie White, a former swimming student who has made allegations of abuse against George Gibney, to discuss how one of Irish sports darkest stories might be reaching a new chapter. This episode of The Indo Daily features discussion surrounding alleged sexual abuse and may not be suitable for everyone.

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    4 July 2025, 12:05 am
  • 26 minutes 24 seconds
    Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, Rushmore ambitions and a new Irish envoy

    US president Donald Trump wants his name on a bill, his face on a mountain and gators guarding the border. And what does the new US ambassador to Ireland have to do with it?

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    Host: Kevin Doyle                                         Guests: Gina London and Scott Lucas

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    2 July 2025, 4:38 pm
  • 15 minutes 25 seconds
    Extra: DJ Carey pleads guilty - Kilkenny hurler admits to falsely claiming he had cancer

    Hurling star DJ Carey has admitted falsely claiming he had cancer and defrauding people into paying him for treatment.

    The former Kilkenny player (54) pleaded guilty to 10 deception charges when he appeared in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today. He had been due to stand trial but entered the plea when he was formally arraigned before the court this morning.

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    Host: Kevin Doyle, Guest: Amy Molloy

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    2 July 2025, 1:59 pm
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