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Ireland · Apple Podcasts · January 18, 2026

Jan 18, 2026

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#			Podcast	Artist
1	2		The Walkers: The real Salt Path \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer
1	—		Olivia's House with Olivia Attwood	Listen
2	10		Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4
2	1	P	Parting Words	Rip.ie
4	—		The Pat Kenny Show	Newstalk
4	3		The Birth Keepers \| The Guardian Investigates	The Guardian
4	11	G	Grey Matters	The Communications Clinic
5	—		Vogue & Amber	Global
6	1	T	Today with David McCullagh	RTÉ Radio 1
8	1		Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth	Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media
8	1		Catch Up with Louise McSharry	Louise McSharry
9	7	F	Family Flowers Only by Grief Ireland	GoLoud
10	—	R	Ready to Talk with Emma Barnett	BBC Sounds
11	—		Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions
12	2		The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion
12	2		The Louis Theroux Podcast	Spotify Studios
13	3		The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service
16	23		Sunday with Miriam	RTÉ Radio 1
17	3		I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan
17	8		Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts
17	7		The Last Word with Matt Cooper	Today FM
17	2		We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson	WNTT
18	21		Shameless	Shameless Media
18	—		Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ
19	4		World of Secrets	BBC
21	7		Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House
23	2	R	Radical with Amol Rajan	BBC Radio 4
24	1		Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network
24	4		Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson
24	5	L	Liveline	RTÉ Radio 1
26	4		The Audio Long Read	The Guardian
29	5		Woman's Hour	BBC Radio 4
29	1	P	Playback	RTÉ Radio 1
30	5		The Women's Podcast	The Irish Times
30	—		How To Fail With Elizabeth Day	Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment
33	2		TED Talks Daily	TED
33	10		The Hard Shoulder	Newstalk
34	—		This American Life	This American Life
36	5		The Slow Newscast	The Observer
36	3	C	Counterpoint with Eddie Hobbs	Eddie Hobbs
37	1		Moncrieff	Newstalk
37	10		Anything Goes with James English	Anything Goes with James English
37	5		The Niall Boylan Podcast (They Told Me To Shut Up)	Niall Boylan
39	3		Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal
39	5	T	The Travel Diaries	Holly Rubenstein
40	10		Fela Kuti: Fear No Man	Higher Ground
40	3		Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
43	21		The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds
43	1		Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian
43	8		Modern Love	The New York Times
44	8		heretics.	Andrew Gold
44	3		Uncanny	BBC Radio 4
44	17		The Martin Sheen Podcast	TE Productions and MSW Media
47	11	T	The Garda Podcast	An Garda Síochána
48	3	D	Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball	Persephonica
48	2	M	Miss Me?	BBC Sounds
49	16		Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
49	—		Bed of Lies	The Telegraph
50	13	G	Get A Grip with Angela Scanlon and Vicky Pattison	Audio Always
52	14		We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle
53	6		Sin Scéal Eile	Poddle Audio
53	8		If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
53	1	T	The Affair…with Anna Williamson	The Affair…with Anna Williamson
53	30		The Oprah Podcast	Harpo
54	42	T	The Crazy House Prices Podcast	Ciaran Mulqueen
54	3	S	Straight Up	Straight Up
56	18	M	Mens Rea: A true crime podcast	GoLoud
56	17		What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah
56	10	L	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service
56	44		Scamfluencers	Audible
58	2	T	The Reith Lectures	BBC Radio 4
59	2		Lucky Boy	Tortoise Media
59	81		Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify
60	4	N	Nicky Byrne HQ	Nicky Byrne
61	104	T	Tear Down These Walls	Lisa Byrne
61	14		Hooked	Apple TV / Campside Media
62	1	F	Flop Culture	Fionnuala Jones
63	34		File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4
63	—	A	Alive and Kicking with Clare McKenna	Newstalk
63	4		Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries
64	6		Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries
65	129		Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws
67	4	F	Full Disclosure with James O'Brien	Global
70	67		This Is Actually Happening	Audible
71	27	L	Lunchtime Live	Newstalk
72	6		The Commune	Stuff Audio
73	11		A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein
74	11		Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media
74	15		A Slight Change of Plans	Pushkin Industries
75	24		The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan
76	110		The Mishal Husain Show	Bloomberg
77	39		Against The Odds	Audible
78	8		The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries
78	21		The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch
78	21	D	Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2010	BBC Radio 4
79	28		Explain It to Me	Vox
79	10		Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale
80	9	S	SheerLuxe Podcast	SheerLuxe
80	—	T	The Home Show with Sinead Ryan	Newstalk
81	26		The Girls Bathroom	Sophia & Cinzia