Top Documentary Podcasts in Ireland

The latest Apple Podcasts Documentary chart for Ireland, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked September 1, 2026.

1

Swingers

BBC Radio Wales

2

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

3

Lucky Boy | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

4

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

5

Documentary on One Podcast

RTÉ Documentary on One

6

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

7

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

8

The Slow Newscast

The Observer

9

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

10

I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?

BBC Sounds

11

Focus: Adults in the Room

KUOW News and Information

12

The Diamond King | Telegraph Investigates

The Telegraph

13

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

14

Otherworld

Otherworld

15

The Witch Farm

BBC Radio 4

16

Untold: Opus Dei

Financial Times

17

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

18

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

19

Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Sky News

20

The Gift

BBC Radio 4

21

The Flood

The Australian

22

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

23

World of Secrets

BBC

24

Hoaxed

Tortoise Media

25

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

26

First Consignment

RTÉ Documentary on One

27

OnlyFantasy

Audible

28

The Poet

Sony Music Entertainment

29

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

30

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

31

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

32

BioHacked: Family Secrets

Sony Music Entertainment

33

Ramble with Joe McGucken

RTÉ

34

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

35

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

36

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

37

Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott

Zara McDermott

38

What It Was Like

Superreal

39

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

40

Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

41

REAL LIVES

Naomi Channell

42

Paper Trail

ProPublica

43

Paddy's Podcast

Paddy O'Gorman

44

File on 4 Investigates

BBC Radio 4

45

Noble

Audiochuck

46

Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed

Lynn Studio

47

5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan

48

Personally: Discount Dave (and the Fix)

CBC

49

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

50

Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

51

The Missing Sister

iHeartPodcasts

52

The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic

Tortoise Media

53

Hidden Homicides

Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media

54

Affaires sensibles

France Inter

55

Bed of Lies

The Telegraph

56

Boomtown

Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly

57

Stuff Matters with Ed Conway

Sky News

58

Pipeline

Daily Mail

59

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

60

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

61

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC Sounds

62

Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media

Louie Media

63

CNBC Meets with Tania Bryer

CNBC

64

Patient 11

Sky News

65

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

66

The Land in Between

Global Reporting Centre

67

The Pornhub Empire

CBC

68

Inconceivable Truth

Audiochuck

69

1983: Portugal à Queima-Roupa

Observador

70

VOICES OF GREYSTONES

High Tide Studios

71

Into The Dirt

Tortoise Media

72

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

73

Escafandro

Rádio Escafandro

74

Pariah

Tortoise Media

75

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

76

Mysteries at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

77

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Haunted UK

78

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

79

Irish Life & Lore - Voices from the Archive

Maurice O'Keeffe

80

What I survived

Jack Laurence

81

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

82

The Improvement Association

Serial Productions & The New York Times

83

UFOS & PARANORMAL WITH PRESTON DENNETT

Preston Dennett

84

Admissible: Shreds of Evidence

VPM & Story Mechanics

85

28ish Days Later

BBC Radio 4

86

The Wind

Fil Corbitt, The Wind

87

Van Dis Ongefilterd

Atlas Contact / Adriaan van Dis

88

THE DON

iHeartPodcasts

89

Profile

BBC Radio 4

90

The Good Listener Podcast

John Hadden

91

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

92

Everyone Has An Ex

Mamamia Podcasts

93

Rape on Trial

Dr Candida Saunders

94

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

95

Who Robs A Banksy?

Podimo & Message Heard

96

Elon's Spies

Tortoise Media

97

The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories

True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories

98

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

99

7 metrów pod ziemią

Rafał Gębura

100

Out the Gap

Noel Clancy

101

REICH – Das Geschäft mit dem Zweifel

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

102

Secrets We Keep

LiSTNR

103

The Gas Man

Tortoise Media

104

Yeti

BBC Radio 4

105

Hot Mess

RTÉ Radio 1

106

Heweliusz. Prawdziwa historia

Polskie Radio S.A.

107

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

108

Tiger Roll: The People's Horse

RTÉ Documentary on One

109

Alien UFO Podcast

Simon Bown

110

Embedded

NPR

111

Hidden Cults

Nik Hunter

112

TheBlueTickShow

THE BLUETICK SHOW

113

Ça peut vous arriver

RTL

114

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

115

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

116

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

117

The Agent

Imperative Entertainment

118

搞钱女孩

搞钱女孩小辉

119

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

120

The Experiment

The Atlantic and WNYC Studios

121

Collapse: Disaster in Surfside

Treefort Media & Miami Herald

122

Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson

iHeartPodcasts

123

History's Great Mysteries

Nick

124

Into The Fog with Peter Laws

Peter Laws

125

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

126

What's Missing

Casefile Presents

127

Question Everything

Brian Reed

128

Romance Scam Rebellion

Anola Johnson

129

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

130

Rádio Novelo Apresenta

Rádio Novelo

131

Inheritance: Samsung

BBC World Service

132

Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage | Global Issues | Current Affairs

Secrets & Spies

133

Σκληρές αλήθειες

LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ

134

The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things

Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox

135

Relatos Forenses Podcast

pepe&chema

136

Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast

Clem Dallaway

137

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

138

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

139

The Commune

Stuff Audio

140

Extreme

BBC

141

Lost Boys of Pickering

Jamielynne Hammond

142

Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país

Podium Podcast

143

Making Tracks Railway Podcast

Alasdair Stewart

144

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

145

Call Bethel

The Telegraph

146

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

147

Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!

Byte & Pieces

148

The Brothers Ortiz

Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts

149

On Hold

Storied

150

Aliens Explored

Stu Jackson & Neil Kelly

151

Scene on Radio

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

152

I Talk To Ghosts

Jennifer Page

153

Les Chroniques de l'Etrange

Les Chroniques de l'Etrange

154

Dublin Dialogues

Dublin Dialogues

155

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156

SNAPPED: The Podcast

Lucy Taylor

157

The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh

Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci

158

Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial

BBC Sounds

159

Blow-Ins

Kara Golden & Craig Hunter

160

The Parting Glass

Niamh Ryan

161

Death Row Stories

François Picard

162

AFTER DARK | True Scary, Paranormal, Ghost, Supernatural & Mysterious Stories

True Crime, Mysteries, Paranormal, Unexplained, True Scary Stories

163

Mind Games

Kaleidoscope

164

Mothers of Invention

Doc Society

165

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

166

The Lyric Feature

RTÉ lyric fm

167

How I Survived

That's Life!

168

Signals to Danger

Daniel Fox

169

Getting to Know You with Chris Hitchcock and Tony Maycock

92.5 Phoenix FM

170

Jungle Prince

The New York Times

171

DW Revista

DW

172

A Vida Dupla do Espião Traidor

Observador

173

Vlaarse Dingen

Rik Bouman & Robert Tetteroo

174

Michelle Obama - Biography Flash

Inception Point AI

175

Prince Andrew - Biography Flash

Inception Point AI

176

Mythology And Folklore For Sleep

The Sleepy Mythkeeper

177

La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir

The French Whisperer

178

The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories

Becky

179

Legacy: Sports Stories

Stak

180

Radio Marz | پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز

Marzie

181

Pig Iron

Tortoise Media

182

Mysteries and Monsters

Mysteries and Monsters

183

You Look Like Me

Louise McLoughlin

184

Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter

Forbidden Knowledge Network

185

Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem

Audible Originals

186

UFO - Extraterrestrial Reality

James Quirk

187

Hateland

ARD

188

Thunder Bay

Canadaland

189

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

190

La Biblioteca de los Sueños: Documentales para Dormir

Olimpia Pérez

191

Atonement: The John Paulk Story

iHeartPodcasts

192

Sold a Story

APM Reports

193

UFO - Extraterrestrial Reality

James Quirk

194

Más Allá del Rosa

Jessica Fernández

195

The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight

Somethin' Else / Sony Music Entertainment

196

The Sperrins: Mining, Power & Community in Northern Ireland

buttonsoptions4u

197

WACO: The Inside Story

Shine Productions

198

MISTERIO OVNI TERROR Y PARANORMAL

MISTERIO OVNI Y PARANORMAL

199

Conspiracy Theories Project

Forbidden Knowledge Network

200

Aliens Explored: Video Podcast

Stu Jackson & Neil Kelly

201

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

202

Magtfuld

RADIO IIII

203

Curse of: America’s Next Top Model

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

204

Fatal Fantasy

Sony Music Entertainment

205

Mallen Baker: Faultlines

Mallen Baker

206

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

207

Cultimatum: The Cult & Human Trafficking Podcast

Anonymous Andrew & Melody

208

Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman

Tortoise Media

209

The Dustlight Archives

Scott Ryan

210

Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine

Dr. Ed Hasan

211

Wild Wild Web - Geschichten aus dem Internet

ARD

212

That's What People Do

That's What People Do

213

UOL Prime com José Roberto de Toledo

UOL

214

The Headway Podcast

Headway Ireland

215

The Crimes of Margo Freshwater

Sony Music Entertainment

216

Leaving Eden Podcast

Leaving Eden LLC

217

Getting to Know You with Chris Hitchcock and Tony Maycock

92.5 Phoenix FM

218

The National Archives Podcast Series

The National Archives

219

Cosmic Peach

Julia Hamilton

220

The Unconventional Soldier

theunconventionalsoldier

221

Pablo Escobar: Escape from La Catedral

Spotify Studios

222

Short Cuts

BBC Radio 4

223

85,000: The Podcast

SLAP The Network

224

THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MAFIA

Fabio Fabiano

225

Epidemia Ultra

Franco Delle Donne

226

Abeceda strachu

Adam Miklica a Eduard Birke

227

Creepy Shit

Creepy Shit

228

(De eso no se habla)

(De eso no se habla)

229

Fighting Crime

Arnold Ventures

230

SCAMMERLAND

Superreal

231

CASA LOEWE CONVERSATIONS IBIZA SPECIAL: Series 1

LOEWE

232

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

233

Paranormal FM

Fernando Ribas & Leonardo Marques

234

Air Crash Chronicles

Air Crash Chronicles

235

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera Network

236

Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord

iHeartPodcasts

237

Strange Stories UK

DBC

238

Corinna and The King

Brazen

239

Copenhagen Architecture Forum's Podcast

CAFx - Copenhagen Architecture Forum

240

Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing

Julie Bindel

241

Spooky Reddit Podcast

HustleStudios Podcast Network

242

Danni Irreversibili - Il Caso Michael Jackson

Vois con Roberta Lippi e Lorenzo Brillo

243

American Coyote

Imperative Entertainment and Pegalo Pictures

244

Ours to Protect

OceanFM Ireland

245

ABISMO

Aragón Radio

246

Odessa

The New York Times

247

Deliver Us From Ervil

iHeartPodcasts and Novel

248

Seriously...

BBC Radio 4

249

Toplines and Tales

Andy Frazier

250

Trolled

Aoife Moore

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