Crime World

Crime World, with Nicola Tallant, is an Irish podcast about criminals, drugs and the sins of the underworld. Discussing the real stories, and the real people, behind the grisly headlines. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

22:09:23 2024-03-29
He is the CEO of Merchants Quay Ireland with a lengthy career behind him in the prison service making him perfectly placed to understand and empathise with the complexities of long term addiction.Later this year the first injecting rooms will open at the ...
13:03 2024-03-27
Tensions have continued to simmer in the feud between associates of murdered Jason Hennessy and Tristan Sherry with houses burned out and fears attacks could escalate.The Christmas Eve massacre at a Dublin restaurant which saw Hennessy shot by Sherry who ...
18:26 2024-03-27
A suspected drug dealer is bundled into a car in Belfast and driven across the border to Dublin amid allegations he owes a senior criminal figure a debt.A Garda operation saves the man before he can be tortured or killed by his kidnappers but in true gang...
38:48 2024-03-25
Encrochat phone hack evidence has been heard for the first time in an Irish court as Senior Cartel member Peadar Keating fights extradition to the UK on firearms charges.Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the messages the Crown say were passed between ...
36:41 2024-03-23
A serial fraudster was employed by a family in Kildare as a live in au pair after being outed on a hit podcast and in a series of newspaper articles as a conwoman.Samantha Cooke managed to reinvent herself as child care worker Sadie Harris and lived for s...
45:43 2024-03-23
Two republicans Colin Duffy and Henry Fitzsimons have been acquitted of terrorism charges following a long-running trial at Belfast Crown Court. Earlier their co accused Alex McCrory was also acquitted in the M15 bugging case.So how did their trial take t...
19:26 2024-03-22
Ten men were brought before courts in Cork yesterday charged with conspiracy to import drugs into Ireland.Six Spanish nationals, one Serbian, two Dutch and one Irish man from Fermanagh were all granted free legal aid at Middleton, Cork and Bandon District...
18:53 2024-03-22
Veteran gangster Martin ‘The Viper’ Foley is facing having his house repossessed to pay off a massive Criminal Assets Bureau bill which has grown to over €700,000.The 73 year old was hit with a tax bill from the CAB more than 20 years ago but he onl...
25:28 2024-03-21
IRA killer Pearse McAuley lived a life of violence as an IRA volunteer and later as a prison bully and a brutal domestic abuser.Found dead aged 59 at his home in Strabane in County Tyrone he leaves behind a legacy of fear and intimidation spanning decades...
32:50 2024-03-20
A suspected drugs gang with possible links to Hezbollah militants remain in custody as Gardaí continue to investigate an alleged drugs plot off the West Cork coast.Detectives had been secretly monitoring professional divers, logistics operators and two D...
58:26 2024-03-19
***EPISODE ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN JANUARY 2022***Detective Anthony Amore hunts stolen art and follows clues all over the world hunting priceless masterpieces which have been snatched by thieves. In this week's episode of Crime World, detective Anthony Amo...
22:13 2024-03-18
It was an act of kindness during lockdown that ended up nearly costing an honest garda of his career.In May 2020, an officer took a bike from his station's lost and found and loaned it to a pensioner who had been given doctor's advice to ge...
32:37 2024-03-16
Serial child abuser Bill Kenneally sparked outrage when he joked and laughed through testimony at a public inquiry this week.Kenneally appeared to relish the attention as he described how Gardaí had known about his crime since 1987.But beh...
46:27 2024-03-16
Amanda Brown's stepfather David Tweed began sexually abusing her at an early age. For years, she knew the real monster behind the man who presented himself to the public as a star rugby player and pillar of the community. In 2012 tweed was jailed for...
19:46 2024-03-15
There is one advantage to working for a newspaper on Dublin's Talbot Street - you don't have to look hard to find crime. This week, the Sunday World reported on how a pool of blood was left on the ground outside our office after a machete was used during ...
21:40 2024-03-15
A file on the murder of Eddie Hutch has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions with a recommendation that Daniel Kinahan be charged in relation to the killing.The taxi driver, a brother of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch, was shot dead in 2016 amid the h...
33:11 2024-03-14
An interim report into the activities of British Agent Freddie Scappaticci within the Provisional IRA has said that more lives were lost than saved during his tenure as a spy.Niall Donald speaks to Allison Morris about the man known as 'stakeknife' and wh...
16:11 2024-03-13
Christopher 'Git' Waldron has had to hand over his home, a second property, cash and designer watches to the Criminal Assests Bureau. He also claims he's being forced to sell his collection of Michael Jackson memorabilia.  Clodagh Meaney sp...
29:46 2024-03-11
Murder victim Richie Carberry wrote his last will and registered it in September 2018 during the height of the Drogheda feud.Leaving his estate to his wife Eileen, a sister of Robbie Lawlor, he was killed just over a year later.Nicola speaks to Eamon Dill...
22:42 2024-03-09
The former partner of jailed drug lord Barry Young has escaped a prison term after she pleaded guilty to money laundering and facilitating her boyfriend's criminal organisation. Katie Banks received a suspended sentence after a court was told she had...
20:03 2024-03-08
A brutal machete attack at a teenage boxing championship in Roscommon. The father of an U14 champion is targeted and videoed trying to defend himself with a chair. Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about how an evening of boxing turned into a horror show...
39:56 2024-03-08
The daughter of convicted drug dealer John Gilligan has issued High Court proceedings over her dole payments which have been stopped since last year.In a move straight out of her fathers rule book she claims her social welfare applications were refused af...
41:15 2024-03-07
The Encrochat phone hack which has resulted in thousands of arrests and convictions across Europe has been described as a pinnacle moment in the fight against modern organised crime.But how did police use the intel that they received every day over a thre...
34:44 2024-03-06
Eight years after the murder of Real IRA man Vinny Ryan on a Dublin street his comrades have taken to social media to honour him as a ‘republican hero.’But who was Vinny Ryan and why did he follow his brother Alan’s footsteps to a life in a terror o...
43:42 2024-03-04
Children are now being radicalised by drug gangs according to new reports from Europol which state that kids as young as 12 are being brainwashed to carry out serious crimes on behalf of older mob bosses.So how does that play out in Ireland and do we have...
30:31 2024-03-02
A supergrass trial ends in a not guilty verdict.The families of innocent victims Eamon Fox and Gary Convie, two innocent catholic workmen murdered almost 30 years ago are left devastated.A self professed loyalist killer turned witness, Gary Haggarty, is t...
45:07 2024-03-02
Notorious cocaine boss Ridouan Taghi has been jailed for life after a mammoth four year trial in Amsterdam but he leaves behind a legacy of terror that will not be forgotten into the future.Nicola speaks with Jan Meeus, an author, podcaster and a crime co...
28:53 2024-03-01
A convicted killer has vowed to continue to agitate for his freedom twelve years after he brutally killed 25-year-old mum Anna Finnegan.Vessel Jahiri has lost his appeal against his conviction on what Judges detailed in a damning judgement and inadmissibl...
11:37 2024-02-28
Two Kerry men charged in relation to the biggest ever haul of crystal meth in the country have appeared in court via video link.Nathan McDonnell, 43, the owner of Ballyseedy Garden Centre is charged with the possession of drugs worth more than 13k at the ...
21:53 2024-02-28
The daughter of an innocent man shot dead by the Kinahan Organised Crime Group directed her victim impact statement at the man known as Mr Nobody and told him he had taken her past, present and future.Donna Kirwan was making her comments at Declan Brady...
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