30 Acres: 04 - List of Demands

Pirate Predator

RTÉ Documentary on One

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.4 • 778 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It’s Christmastime at 30 Acres and Glenn, Iseult and Holly are hiding out in Glenn’s bomb shelter with their hostage, Sean Granite. Alistair Crowe plans to strike a deal with Holly, sidelining the others, so that he can advance his plan to sell the 30 Acres estate. If he can secure the release of Sean Granite, his government contacts will support him to establish a prison on the site.

However this will depend on Sean - and Sean is a much changed man after his period of captivity at the hands of the 30 Acres Says No campaign.

Cast

Barbara Bergin, (Iseult)

Shane Casey (Glenn)

John Colleary (Sean)

Philippa Dunne (Pat)

Barry Murphy (Alistair)

Stefanie Preissner (Holly)

Colm Tobin (Colm)

Aidan O'Donovan (TV Presenter/Priest)

Produced by Kevin Brew for Drama On One with Kevin Reynolds and Gorretti Slavin. Produced by Liam O'Brien for Documentary On One with Tim Desmond, Ronan Kelly, Nicoline Greer and Shauna McGreevy. Sound Design by Damian Chennells. Audio product support by Nigel Wheatley and Áine McManus. Design by Niamh McKeown.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Sean Granite.
0:02.2	Imagine your family home set upon rolling historic lands.
0:05.7	Where you might see a gaping hole in the wall, I'd see a window of opportunity.
0:09.7	A contemporary nest for you and your loved ones.
0:12.0	Glenn, what is this? Is this a gun?
0:13.8	A modern Celtic utopia.
0:16.0	Two nights, I wish to announce that we have taken Sean Grutter hostage.
0:30.5	Once a utopian dream, I'm proud to present 30 acres.
0:32.5	Now a sprawling ghost estate.
0:36.2	This was meant to be the town centre originally over here, but they didn't quite get to it.
1:13.0	Three remaining inhabitants. Who the hell are you and how did you get into my house? Here, let me ask you this, you fucking stuff shirt. It's the beauty of living in an ghost estate you pretty much can do whatever that fuck you want. And the liquidator intent on evicting them. You've got 30 days to get out. 30 days, get out. Do it now. One bankrupt developer. My leg is going as well. Yeah. Stop moving your leg. I can't stop moving my leg. Stop moving your leg. And his wife, Pat. And he brought the recording equipment and everything. That's marvellous. From RTE documentary on one and RTE Drama on one, my name is Colum and this is 30 Acres. Episode 4, List of Demands.
1:18.8	It's Christmas time at 30 Acres, a failed government housing project,
1:23.6	while others in the media are being invited to parties with the Cream of Irish Society.
1:31.4	I'm spending my nights in a small shed with Holly, Glenn and Esalt, the last three remaining inhabitants of 30 acres.
1:35.5	You know, they're calling me the 30 Acres 3 in the media now.
1:37.7	They could have been more creative about it, though, couldn't they? I like the 30 acres tree, that's nice.
1:39.8	In this alternative nativity scene, the 30 Acres 3 are coming to the end of a long fight to hold on to their homes.
1:47.7	The scrooge of the piece is Alistair Crow, the government-appointed liquidator who wants to evict them,
1:53.9	so he can sell the entire estate.
1:56.1	Holly, Glenn and Esalt have taken extreme measures, abducting and accidentally shooting the property
2:01.8	developer, Sean Granite.
2:03.3	I don't like the fact that they brought my son into it, like?
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