Scéaleenies, noun, plural. A weekly podcast of Irish short stories. Intimate, slightly off-beat. A patent-pending blend of Irish inflection, wit and observation focused on the moment, voices and strangeness of life.
Currently in between seasons - expect season 2 later in 2026
Contact: scealeenies@gmail.com (mailto:scealeenies@gmail.com)
On Midsummer’s Eve, traffic begins to slow on a motorway in the west of Ireland. Hares run alongside the cars. Birds gather overhead. Music drifts across the road. Then figures appear in the fields, riders, antlers, banners, shadows, moving according to laws older than the motorway itself. No one agrees on what they saw. No crash occurs. The official explanation calls it “an unauthorised equestrian gathering.” But every year, at the same bend, the traffic still slows. 🎧 Solstice, the fi...
11 Jun 2026
Amusements
A strange arcade cabinet appeared in a seaside amusement hall in the 90s. Nobody saw it arrive.
4 Jun 2026
Things Will Not Be Grand
John Joe Malarkey wakes up in Dublin to a leaking ceiling, broken appliances, dead buses, failed Luas machines, impossible clocks, and the growing suspicion that the city itself has turned against him. Everyone keeps saying the same thing. Things will be grand. They will not.
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