{"podcast":{"title":"The Irish Passport","slug":"the-irish-passport-1120361","podcast_index_feed_id":1120361,"rss_url":"https://www.theirishpassport.com/feed/podcast/","website_url":"https://www.theirishpassport.com/series/default-podcast/","image_url":"https://www.theirishpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-Irish-Passport-logo-smaller-2.jpg","author":"The Irish Passport","episode_count":136,"summary":"Irish culture and current affairs with the historical backstory that explains it all. Presented by journalist Naomi O Leary and lecturer Tim Mc Inerney, this is your passport to Ireland.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T02:19:45.869587+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-irish-passport-1120361"},"episode":{"title":"Investigating a ruthless rental empire","slug":"investigating-a-ruthless-rental-empire","published_at":"2025-05-04T22:32:38+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-irish-passport-1120361/investigating-a-ruthless-rental-empire","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-irish-passport-1120361","url":"https://www.theirishpassport.com/podcast/investigating-a-ruthless-rental-empire/","audio_url":"https://chtbl.com/track/38395/www.theirishpassport.com/podcast-download/2028/investigating-a-ruthless-rental-empire.mp3","summary":"Naomi spent months investigating a rogue landlord who built up an empire of rental properties in Ireland backed by family wealth in Luxembourg. In this episode, we tell the story of Marc Godart: his back story, the controversial evictions that brought him to prominence, and the unusual ways he runs his businesses. This is based on reporting by Naomi and her colleagues at the Irish Times that was recently awarded the Mary Raftery Prize for social affairs journalism. The winning story is here: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/01/13/under-the-eye-of-landlord-marc-godart-how-a-tenant-who-objected-to-cctv-surveillance-was-evicted/ You can read more of Naomi's reporting here: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2024/02/17/working-for-marc-godart-paper-directors-shadow-airbnb-accounts-ruthless-staff-practices/ https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/04/15/the-luxembourg-family-behind-an-irish-property-empire Bonus episodes are available for supporters over on www.patreon.com/theirishpassport","meta_description":"Naomi spent months investigating a rogue landlord who built up an empire of rental properties in Ireland backed by family wealth in Luxembourg. In this ep…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4892,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-irish-passport-1120361/episodes/investigating-a-ruthless-rental-empire/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-irish-passport-1120361/investigating-a-ruthless-rental-empire.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}