Top Society & Culture Podcasts in Ireland

The latest Apple Podcasts Society & Culture chart for Ireland, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked September 15, 2026.

1

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

BBC Sounds

2

Vogue & Amber

Global

3

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

4

Today with David McCullagh

RTÉ Radio 1

5

We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson

WNTT

6

Desert Island Discs

BBC Radio 4

7

The Pat Kenny Show

Newstalk

8

Catch Up with Louise McSharry

Louise McSharry

9

The Women's Podcast

The Irish Times

10

Family Flowers Only by Grief Ireland

GoLoud

11

Shameless

Shameless Media

12

The Last Word with Matt Cooper

Today FM

13

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

14

Great Company with Jamie Laing

Jampot Productions

15

Happily Murrayed

Cutdown & The Murrays

16

The Oprah Podcast

Harpo

17

Liveline

RTÉ Radio 1

18

This American Life

This American Life

19

Ray D'Arcy Daily

Whatnext Productions

20

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

21

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment

22

How Are Ya Lovie?

Carl Mullan

23

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

24

Swingers

BBC Radio Wales

25

Documentary on One Podcast

RTÉ Documentary on One

26

The Louis Theroux Podcast

Spotify Studios

27

The Ezra Klein Show

New York Times Opinion

28

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

29

Olivia's House with Olivia Attwood

Platform Media

30

Holly Willoughby Together with Voy

Hungry Bear Media

31

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

Esther Perel Global Media

32

Anything Goes with James English

Anything Goes with James English

33

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

34

Lucky Boy | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

35

The Shawn Ryan Show

Shawn Ryan

36

The Affair…with Anna Williamson

The Affair…with Anna Williamson

37

Get A Grip with Angela Scanlon and Vicky Pattison

Audio Always

38

Never Have I Ever with Claire Byrne

Newstalk

39

World of Secrets

BBC

40

Behind the Bastards

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

41

Sunday with Miriam

RTÉ Radio 1

42

The Hard Shoulder

Newstalk

43

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

44

Ramble with Joe McGucken

RTÉ

45

Scamfluencers

Audible

46

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC World Service

47

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

48

The Slow Newscast

The Observer

49

Mamamia Out Loud

Mamamia Podcasts

50

Moncrieff

Newstalk

51

The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud

Do Good Crew

52

Dempsey's Dozen

yumsick

53

Sober Awkward

soberawkward

54

Woman's Hour

BBC Radio 4

55

The Permanent Questions With David Brooks

The Atlantic

56

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

57

The Spill

Mamamia Podcasts

58

The Girls Bathroom

Sophia & Cinzia

59

Ten Down

GoLoud

60

Grounded with Louis Theroux

BBC Radio 4

61

Diabolical Lies

Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke

62

I've Had It

Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan

63

TED Talks Daily

TED

64

Desert Island Discs: Archive 2011-2015

BBC Radio 4

65

Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball

Persephonica

66

Miss Me?

Persephonica

67

Philosophize This!

Stephen West

68

Playback

RTÉ Radio 1

69

What I survived

Jack Laurence

70

Lunchtime Live

Newstalk

71

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

72

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

73

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

74

Untold: Opus Dei

Financial Times

75

Modern Love

The New York Times

76

Focus: Adults in the Room

KUOW News and Information

77

Radical

BBC Radio 4

78

The Travel Diaries

Holly Rubenstein

79

Inside Sport

RTÉ Sport

80

Sin Scéal Eile

Poddle Audio

81

Grey Matters

The Communications Clinic

82

If Books Could Kill

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

83

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

84

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

85

In Bed With The Right

Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan

86

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

87

Things Fell Apart

BBC Radio 4

88

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

89

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

90

Abroad in Japan

Stak

91

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

92

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

93

On with Kara Swisher

Vox Media

94

Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Sky News

95

The Ireland Podcast

Fender Jackson

96

Blowback

Blowback

97

The School of Life

tscol

98

Metro Matters

MetroLink

99

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

100

No Filter

Mamamia Podcasts

101

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

102

We call her Emma

The Observer

103

It’s a Girl Thing

Ebony and Lucie

104

Wednesdays

JamPot Productions

105

Palace Confidential

Daily Mail

106

Wild Card with Rachel Martin

NPR

107

The Claire Solan Podcast

Nalos Productions

108

The Royals

The Times

109

AJ Buckley Show

AJ Buckley

110

The Mishal Husain Show

Bloomberg

111

Life Uncut

LiSTNR

112

Nicky Byrne HQ

Nicky Byrne

113

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC Sounds

114

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

115

Second Captains Saturday

RTÉ Radio 1

116

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

117

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

118

Happy Hour with Ina Garten

Vox Media

119

Critics at Large | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

120

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

Oprah and Eckhart Tolle

121

Into The Fog with Peter Laws

Peter Laws

122

The Tools at Hand with Harrison Gardner

harrisongardner

123

Against The Odds

Audible

124

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

125

Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy

Channel 4 News

126

The Crazy House Prices Podcast

Ciaran Mulqueen

127

What It Was Like

Superreal

128

Intelligence Squared

Intelligence Squared

129

Girls Next Level

Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt

130

Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

131

The Dozen with Liam Tuffs

The Dozen Media

132

All There Is with Anderson Cooper

CNN Podcasts

133

The Interview

The New York Times

134

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

135

Conversations

ABC Australia

136

Movies and Booze on Moncrieff

Newstalk

137

Witness History

BBC World Service

138

Alan Watts Being in the Way

Be Here Now Network / Love Serve Remember Foundation

139

Unexplained

iHeartPodcasts

140

More or Less

BBC Radio 4

141

The Diamond King | Telegraph Investigates

The Telegraph

142

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

143

The LRB Podcast

The London Review of Books

144

Revisionist History: The Staten Island Problem

Pushkin Industries

145

The Home Show with Sinead Ryan

Newstalk

146

Wild Geese

Anna Howard | Podcast Strategist

147

Saturday with Cormac Ó hEadhra

RTÉ Radio 1

148

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

149

Within Reason

Alex J O'Connor

150

Open Book with Jenna

TODAY, Jenna Bush Hager

151

TV on the Radio

Newstalk

152

The Other Ireland

Nick Fitzgerald

153

Pinkpill Rx

Katie Fillmore

154

Bookclub

BBC Radio 4

155

Cults to Consciousness

Shelise Ann Sola, Jonathan C Rosales

156

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

157

The Best People with Nicolle Wallace

MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace

158

Heavyweight

Pushkin Industries

159

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan

MK Media

160

Front Row

BBC Radio 4

161

Skein Podcasts: Thinking Aloud, Thinking Together

Skein Press

162

Otherworld

Otherworld

163

The Girls Groupchat Podcast

The Girls Groupchat Podcast

164

Project Unabom

Apple TV+ / Pineapple Street Studios

165

Jillian on Love

Jillian Turecki | Daylight Media

166

Lush! with Joanna Page

Pixiu Podcasts

167

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Higher Ground

168

In The Good Books with Luke Bateman

Tapt Podcasts

169

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

170

OnlyFantasy

Audible

171

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

172

Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories

Mark B

173

Why Are You More Successful Than Me? with Richard Bacon

Richard Bacon

174

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox

175

What Now? with Trevor Noah

Trevor Noah

176

The Poet

Sony Music Entertainment

177

The Delingpod: The James Delingpole Podcast

James Delingpole

178

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

179

Don't Call Me Darling

Niall & Karen Boylan

180

On The Kase with Kasey Campion

Onic Originals

181

Mad, Sad and Bad with Paloma Faith

JamPot Productions

182

Love Life With Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

183

My Sister's Secrets

The Australian

184

The Receipts Podcast

The Receipts Media LTD

185

The Viall Files

Nick Viall

186

Counterpoint with Eddie Hobbs

Eddie Hobbs

187

The Royalist

The Daily Beast

188

Extraordinary Lives

LADbible Group

189

Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

190

The Creep Dive

Tall Tales

191

Bed of Lies

The Telegraph

192

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

Pushkin Industries

193

Rádio Novelo Apresenta

Rádio Novelo

194

Ready to Talk with Emma Barnett

BBC Sounds

195

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

196

Mythic Space

Mythic Space

197

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991

BBC Radio 4

198

Mano a Mano

Spotify Studios

199

Two Girls One Ghost

Sony Music Entertainment

200

ROCA PROJECT

Carlos Roca

201

People I (Mostly) Admire

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

202

Ramblings

BBC Radio 4

203

The Dating Detectives

Dear Media

204

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

205

All In Her Head

RNZ

206

Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari

Dear Media

207

Just The Gist

Just The Network

208

Hey Tablo

Team Epikase

209

No Stupid Questions

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

210

Start the Week

BBC Radio 4

211

Pottering with Tom Allen

Tom Allen

212

REAL LIVES

Naomi Channell

213

Feel Good Formula

High Performance

214

Culture Study Podcast

Anne Helen Petersen

215

U Up?

Betches Media

216

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

217

The Flood

The Australian

218

Cork's 96fm Opinion Line

Cork's 96fm Opinion Line

219

Paper Trail

ProPublica

220

Book of Leaves

Ceara Carney

221

ONE MORE TIME di Luca Casadei

OnePodcast - One More Time

222

The SheerLuxe Podcast

SheerLuxe

223

Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson

224

Our Town

Bloomberg and iHeartPodcasts

225

Cannonball with Wesley Morris

The New York Times

226

Upstream

Upstream

227

Radio Rental

Tenderfoot TV & Audacy

228

Blúiríní Béaloidis Folklore Podcast

Blúiríní Béaloidis / Folklore Fragments

229

The Atlantic Interview

The Atlantic

230

The Wirecutter Show

The New York Times

231

The Kanye Story

BBC Sounds

232

Lost in Larrimah

The Australian

233

In conversation with Dr. Katriona O'Sullivan

Katriona O'Sullivan

234

CreepCast

Wendigoon & MeatCanyon

235

Mystery Show

Gimlet

236

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

237

Nonviolent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg's NVC Training

Joe Public

238

Hot Mess

RTÉ Radio 1

239

The Trojan Horse Affair

Serial Productions & The New York Times

240

Code Switch

NPR

241

The Prodcast

David Clarke & Simon Kingston

242

How To Write A Book

Daylight Productions and Sony Music Entertainment

243

The Fairshake Files

The Fairshake Files

244

The Good Whale

Serial Productions and the New York Times

245

Here's To Change

Drinkaware

246

Here For The Craic with Emma Neill

Emma Neill

247

Sold a Story

APM Reports

248

What Makes You Tick?

GoLoud

249

Chicks in the Office

Barstool Sports

250

Routes

LNER

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