Patrick O'Connell was a superstar and a cheat. First Irish captain at Manchester United Football Club. A manager who saved Barcelona Football Club. This Dubliner's soccer story is of passion, bribery

Sometimes history throws up stories that are more dramatic than any fiction. And this is one such story. Taking us on a dramatic journey from the south west coast of Ireland to the souks and harems of

On February 23rd 1943, a fire in St Joseph's industrial school in Cavan Town, an orphanage run by an enclosed order nuns caught fire. 35 orphans and one elderly woman died that night. This is the story of the people who died and those who were left behind

Irish comedian Maeve Higgins looks for people who write to Saint Valentine in Whitefriar Church Dublin. She meets people who are looking for love, asking for help, telling him their most intimate hopes and fears - all written into a public book on display

Brendan Behan is one of Ireland's greatest writers. Some of his most important work was influenced by time he spent in Paris just after World War II where he mixed with some of the most important writers of the 20th century. In an interview never previous

Exactly 100 years ago, in February 1923, a baby girl is abandoned on a doorstep in Dublin. A priest and his housekeeper seen acting suspiciously are handed over to the police. One month later a young

When the dancehall in Claremorris, Co. Mayo was bombed in 1972, people looked to the Northern Troubles. But one man knew that this was no political act. He said the bombing was arranged by a woman fro

From the ages of 12 to 17, two brothers, Mark and David Ryan, were both repeatedly sexually abused in Blackrock College in South County Dublin. Their abusers were from the Spiritan community at the sc

Mary Folan, long emigrated to America, made a dying wish to be buried back home on her native island of Inis Mein. But after Marys death, the unthinkable happened when an attempt was made to transfe

A devastating fire at a halting site in South County Dublin on October 10th 2015 led to multiple members of three families losing their lives. We delve into the events of that night and travel to Bray