10 best Irish podcasts of 2024: Stakeknife, The Gambler, Escape from the Maze... 

It's been a great year for the Irish podcasting world. Here's Eoghan O'Sullivan's selection of the must-listen shows 

Pictured clockwise: David O'Doherty; IRA membe Alfredo Scappatcci; and Killian Sundermann, Tony Cantwell and Shane Dan Byrne of the Young Hot Guyz podcast.

Stakeknife: The follow-up to Where is George Gibney?, Mark Horgan and Ciarán Cassidy probe the double life of Freddie Scappaticci, an IRA enforcer who was a secret informant known as Stakeknife. Second episode ‘Sin É’ is probably the best standalone show we heard this year.

The Gambler: Ian Malaney and Nicola Tallant follow-up 2021’s The Witness: In his Own Words by looking at and talking with the gambler Pat Sheedy. Eighteen months in the making, they thought it was going to be an easy enough process but it turned out to be a lot more complicated than that.