Local media favourites LaoisToday return to the festival with a sit-down interview featuring one of the biggest names in Irish sports broadcasting — Colm Parkinson of the Smaller Fish Podcast. He'll chat about his own football career, his move into the media, and how he built the biggest GAA audience in the country.

Crime World is a hit podcast hosted by award-winning Irish investigative journalist Nicola Tallant, exploring the gritty realities of organised crime, drug cartels, and the global underworld.

Ireland's number-one bilingual podcast, live and unscripted. Doireann Ní Ghlacáin, Louise Cantillon and Síomha Ní Ruairc slide between Gaeilge and English mid-sentence, covering everything from group-chat drama to the state of the nation. No grammar drills, no modh coinníollach, just craic den scoth.

Experience the soundtracks that drive hit true-crime and investigative podcasts. Every RTÉ Documentary On One series features a custom-commissioned soundtrack that acts as the musical heartbeat of the story. All are then released as standalone soundtrack albums. In this exclusive session, three award-winning composers dissect the art of music composition for audio storytelling. Alma Kelliher reveals how she channelled tension for the recent dark investigative series, Pirate Predator. Icelandic Music Award-winner Úlfur Eldjárn breaks down his haunting, award-winning score for Where is Jón?, the story of a missing Icelandic poker player. And local Laois-based composer Paddy Flynn shares his melodic approach to tracking the global con artist Samantha Azzopardi in the series Finding Samantha. They'll share their inspirations, break down their creative processes, and each will perform live tracks from their scores. The ultimate collision of original music and gripping audio journalism.

How long will Micheal Martin survive as Taoiseach? Can Sinn Fein regain its momentum? Could more fuel protests lie around the corner? Join Hugh Linehan, Pat Leahy, Ellen Coyne and Jack Horgan-Jones from The Irish Times politics team as they take a look at the state of Irish politics.

Housewarming is your inside look at real Irish homes transforming for a greener energy future. The show is all about helping you to make your home a warmer, more energy efficient, and beautiful place to live. For this special live episode, host Kim Buckley is joined by James Kavanagh and his partner William Murray. James and William have left Dublin, which they've called home together for the last 11 years, in search of a simpler life in the countryside. They've bought a house in Kilkenny with an acre of mature garden ready for planting and growing, and have undergone a major renovation to make their home more energy efficient and suitable for their lifestyle. They join Kim to chat about their renovation journey and hopes and plans for the future.

The weekly podcast that takes the news and the nonsense equally seriously, recorded live at MindField. Louise McSharry is joined by her regular news correspondent Carl Kinsella and special guest Emer McLysaght, co-author of the Aisling novels, to sift through the week just gone: politics, culture, reality television and whatever the group chat is currently fighting about.

Nearly three decades, twenty-odd novels and one weekly Irish Times column later, Ross remains south Dublin's most quotable rugby jock. Creator Paul Howard brings him to life on stage: Sorcha, Honor, the old man, and whatever fresh disgrace the Rossmeister has visited on the southside this season. A field in Laois is not remotely Ross's scene, which makes this all the sweeter.

One of Ireland's most-followed content creators takes the chat off the phone and onto a stage. Shane McCarthy's weekly podcast has built a devoted audience on pure honesty: life, love, pop culture and the stories most people would keep to themselves. Unfiltered, chaotic and very funny. He said what he said.

Irish history with the reverence removed. The hit comedy history podcast takes the national story — rebels, chancers, saints and absolute disasters — and tells it the way it would be told at the back of the bus. Educational despite itself.

Irish history with the reverence removed. The hit comedy history podcast takes the national story — rebels, chancers, saints and absolute disasters — and tells it the way it would be told at the back of the bus. Educational despite itself.

Sex, intimacy and everything Ireland spent a century not talking about. Award-winning sex educator and Sex Educated author Grace Alice Ó Sé is joined by Annie Queeries for a frank, funny and entirely shame-free hour. Bring your questions, or just bring your scarlet face. Both are welcome.

The comedian and pod father Jarlath Regan sits down with Irish athletics legend Ciara Mageean for a wide ranging discussion about love, life, loss and the persistence of craic in the face of adversity.

Two London-based Irish comedians tackle the pressing issues facing parents, from the unique vantage point of having no children, no interest in children, and no intention of mentioning children at all. Mike Rice — Kilkenny-born, tens of millions of views online, and the man behind specials An Irish Disgrace and Nasty Character — and Vittorio Angelone, the Northern Irish stand-up whose tours sell out faster than he can announce them, bring their chart-topping weekly podcast to MindField. Unfiltered, unrepentant, and about anything but parenting.