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.
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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...
22:50
2024-02-26
The fate of Limericks mobsters are being left more and more in the hands of the court as police crackdowns on money launderers, hit teams and even debt collectors continue.Nicola speaks with Eamon Dillon about the jailing of two Larrys, the dramatic plea ...
19:52
2024-02-24
Former Republic of Ireland footballer Anthony Stokes is doing porridge in a Scottish jail after handing himself up to police after failing to appear in court to be sentenced for abusing his ex-partner by text.Stokes father John owned the Players Lounge Pu...
21:56
2024-02-23
Murdered Hutch associate Jason ‘Buda’ Molyneaux died from gunshot wounds as his mother Liz begged him to be strong.Harrowing evidence was heard at a Coroners Court hearing of the last moments of his life while an investigation into his murder is ongoi...
21:38
2024-02-21
The sister of gang boss Christy Keane has admitted to money laundering after a court heard that €124,000 in cash was found in her home.Sandra Hehir will face sentencing but says she is now predominately estranged from her siblings and works as a hairdre...
22:25
2024-02-20
An extraordinary drug seizure of more than €30 million in meth at Cork port has resulted in a number of searches around premises in Kerry, Cork and Waterford and a focus on the Irish links with the notorious Sinaloa Cartel.Nicola speaks with Niall Dona...
22:42
2024-02-19
A Taliban ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan along with ambitious Mexican Cartels now based in Europe mean experts are forecasting a perfect storm.Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the next deadly threat from a potent factory-produced drug which ...
38:06
2024-02-17
A network of seemingly legitimate businessmen are under investigation by the Gardai in a massive crackdown on the laundering of dirty money.This week a businessman, Wesley Williams, was jailed for his part in a laundering scam involving euro 1.4 million i...
20:39
2024-02-16
A gangster named in court as being involved in the murder of gang boss Martin ‘Marlo’ Hyland and innocent plumber Anthony Campbell is set for release from prison more than a decade after being jailed.So who is John Mangan? And how was he linked to the...
24:44
2024-02-14
A stunning mansion in the County Louth countryside called The White House has been identified by the Criminal Assets Bureau in a Proceeds of Crime case against a Moldovan couple.Natalie and Edward Chiper were arrested in 2019 after almost €1 million wor...
25:59
2024-02-12
Secret files relating to the operations of a County Kerry wing of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel show how they shipped 6 tonnes of cocaine into Europe over the course of one year.Headed by former Kilorglan schoolboy Morris O’Shea Salazar, whose Mexican mo...
32:50
2024-02-10
Northern Ireland’s much anticipated Kenova Report is set to be released next month after confirmation that no prosecutions are to be pursued.The report centres around the activities of the notorious Freddie Scapattici, the British Army’s top agent in ...
30:46
2024-02-10
Two notorious Limerick brothers were found not guilty of assaulting a sulky driver and causing him harm after he dramatically changed his statement and said he’d ’identified the wrong men.’Vincent and Jonathan Collopy members of the notorious Keane ...
21:47
2024-02-09
Eight years since the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel his family laid floral tributes at the spot where he died.But what has happened to the key players who were there that day and what future lies in store for many who then felt untouchable?Ni...
16:25
2024-02-07
A convicted dog fighting boss on the run from UK authorities is now facing a prison stretch in Ireland after being caught with €1.9 million worth of cocaine.John Knibbs was banned from breeding dogs and disqualified from owning an animal in the UK. But ...
27:43
2024-02-05
Noel Long was charged with killing Nora Sheehan in 1981, but he walked free. He was charged again in 2022. As his trial for murder gets underway, Nicola and the Crime World team meet Julieanna Moore Watkins, Long's sister, who tells us about her brother's...
25:07
2024-02-03
A detailed structure of the Kinahan Organisation has been read into a court for the first time during the trial of a man accused of buying a mobile phone top-up for mob lieutenant Sean McGovern.Evidence given by Superintendent David Gallagher on the comma...
41:45
2024-02-03
Five murders carried out in a tiny area of Belfast and just a few streets apart bare chillingly similar hallmarks when it comes to the up close and personal style of the assassinations, the escape routes taken on foot through the Lenadoon estate and the a...
37:40
2024-02-02
A criminal serving two sentences for involvement in an attempted gangland murder and a shooting of an innocent man has now pleaded guilty to his role in the murder of notiorious mobster Mark’ Guinea Pig’ Desmond eight years ago.Charles McClean from Cl...
19:58
2024-01-31
Court sketch artist Mike O’Donnell attended the trial of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch at the Special Criminal court and was there the day he walked free.But inspired by his craggy face and interesting expressions the Kerry artist decided to go another ste...
33:29
2024-01-29
High flying big spending John Coone and his wife Pamela lorded it up in their small community splashing their cash on holidays, fast cars and flash jewellery. But the couple who were also claiming social welfare have fallen foul of the Criminal Assets Bur...
23:49
2024-01-27
Sixty eight year old William Finlay was sentenced this week for a minimum of 20 years for murdering his former partner at her County Antrim home in the first case using new domestic abuse legislation.But is the sentence long enough for the life of re...
28:38
2024-01-27
Corrupt cop John ‘Spud’ Murphy intervened in a property dispute between a financier and a suspected criminal and allegedly asked for £5,000 for himself and £5,000 for a serving officer, police investigating him for corruption have been told.The disg...
55:39
2024-01-26
The death of Ian Bailey brings to an end his role as a celebrity suspect in the tragic murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier.Convicted in a French court of her brutal killing yet still an innocent man under Irish law the life and death of Bailey has been as...
19:04
2024-01-25
Fears are growing of a bloody revenge attack after the funeral of Christmas Eve gun victim Jason Hennessy.The father of six was buried last weekend in an ‘Incredible Hulk’ themed funeral which was attended by hundreds of friends and family as well as ...
40:53
2024-01-24
A fascinating study of the Bugsy Malones, the gang of children led by a young Gerry The Monk Hutch in Dublin in the 1970s has found that the State let down the north inner city youngsters over and over again.Criminology lecturer Dr Ciara Molloy conducted ...
40:04
2024-01-22
***ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN APRIL 2021***It reads like a script from an Agatha Christie murder mystery – a beautiful young French woman bludgeoned to death at her idyllic holiday home, a shocked community who fear there is a killer amongst them and a str...
16:44
2024-01-22
Veteran criminal Martin ‘The Viper’ Foley has spent countless hours in courtrooms over the course of his 73 year career.He has appeared both as an accused, during the numerous criminal cases against him, but also as a victim in a rake of civil actions...
29:22
2024-01-20
When journalist Hugh Jordan saw a familiar face pop up speaking at an anti immigration protest in a south Belfast housing estate he had to investigate further.And to his surprise the woman interviewed on the BBC saying she wanted no outsiders moving into ...
40:34
2024-01-20
The clock is ticking on murder accused Sean McGovern’s freedom in the United Arab Emirates as the Irish Government and Gardai move in for the next step in the takedown of the Kinahan Cartel.McGovern was named during sanctions in April 2022 but has remai...
26:16
2024-01-19
Criminal Jonathan Harding AKA Rocketman has been released from prison after serving his time for his role in Bomber Kavanagh’s weapons HQ busted in 2017.Harding a trusted member of the Cartel’s Dublin outfit cut a lonely figure as he walked his dog ne...
27:34
2024-01-17
High end designer watches costing tens of thousands of euro are often used as a currency in the underworld where fakes and real timepieces change hands every day.But legitimate buyers too collect the desirable pieces and increasingly their value has left ...
18:14
2024-01-16
The funeral has taken place of Christmas Eve steakhouse shooter Tristan Sherry who was overcome after murdering rival Jason Hennessy Snr and stabbed to death in the packed restaurant.A large police presences monitored the event in Dublin while tensions re...
27:03
2024-01-15
A man on the run since 2006 has been landed a hefty jail term after he was discovered on an Encrochat investigation transporting drugs for underworld drug gangs including the notorious McCarthy mob in Limerick.Anthony Terry escaped a jail term at Lim...
27:16
2024-01-13
The murder of notorious crime gang member Kevin Conway in West Belfast this week has sinister similarities to a number of other assassinations in the North with suggestions that one hitman may now be responsible for seven deaths.Conway, a member of the fe...
33:14
2024-01-12
The Gangster known as ‘Mr Flashy’ is under pressure from police over firearms discovered during a raid on his headquarters a number of years ago.His arrest could bring to the end the reign of the young gun who has led a dangerous grouping through a se...
34:35
2024-01-12
A Wicklow man who was known as ‘Libertas’ on line is set for release from a notorious US federal prison after serving a sentence for his role in the Silk Road marketplace.Gary Davis is expected to return to his native Kilpedder in County Wicklow when ...
13:31
2024-01-11
Three men have now been charged in relation to the death of gunman Tristan Sherry on Christmas Eve during shocking scenes at a Dublin restaurant.One man has been released without charge while the investigation continues.Neither Sherry nor his victim Jason...
20:41
2024-01-10
Kinahan Cartel associate and CAB target Dean Masterson enjoyed a lavish wedding ceremony in recent weeks and has now jetted off to Mexico for his honeymoon.The recently released mortgage fraudster who was working as a milkman in Dublin picked up a hefty t...
31:18
2024-01-09
Cocaine cowboy Liam Byrne appeared in the Old Bailey Court this week via video link from the notorious Belmarsh Prison where he will be kept until his trial for firearms later this year.Byrne and his brother in law Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh along with ...
17:19
2024-01-08
Gangland heavy Bernard Fogarty died in his cell in Portlaoise Prison last week after a chaotic life that saw him openly threaten his rivals on his social media sites.The notorious hitman who was serving life for the murder of Barry Wolverson was considere...
31:59
2024-01-06
A Christmas Eve nightmare in a popular Dublin restaurant. Two men dead and fears that reprisals will follow. So why did gunman Tristan Sherry decide to walk into a crowded steakhouse and shoot at victim Jason Hennessy Snr with a semi automatic weapon?What...
45:49
2024-01-06
SEVEN years ago ournalist Alan Sherry was sent on a news assignment like no other - and on an otherwise ordinary Friday, he found himself in the middle of the Regency Hotel gun attack. Today, Alan gives Nicola Tallant and Niall Donald an eyewitness accoun...
46:09
2024-01-05
Nurse Lucy Letby lived an unremarkable, ordinary life before becoming a suspect in one of the most barbaric and heinous crime imaginable – killing seven newborn babies. While working in a UK hospital, the 33-year-old carried went on a killing spree wher...
41:54
2024-01-03
HE is the consultant psychiatrist with his finger on the pulse when it comes to alcohol abuse, cocaine use and gambling addictions. With an expertise in the use of medicine to help those trying to quit acute and dangerous habits, Professor Colin O’Gara ...
45:46
2024-01-01
Cold case killer Noel Long was found guilty today of the murder Nora Sheehan in Cork 42 years ago. Crime World's Clodagh Meaney attended the trial and heard the in camera evidence and arguments as he tried repeatedly to have the charges withdrawn. She was...
39:29
2023-12-31
His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area known as the vanishing triangle. But where is Larry Murphy now and why is he a suspect in the murder of teenager Deirdre Jacob and the mystery disappearanc...
23:15
2023-12-30
Gunman Tristan Sherry opened fire in the packed restaurant, hitting a 47 year old man before being overpowered and stabbed to death.Niall speaks to Irish independent crime correspondent Ken Foy about the botched hit attempt and how gardai are braced for r...
52:53
2023-12-30
His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area known as the vanishing triangle. But where is Larry Murphy now and why is he a suspect in the murder of teenager Deirdre Jacob and the mystery disappearanc...
29:10
2023-12-29
His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area known as the vanishing triangle. But where is Larry Murphy now and why is he a suspect in the murder of teenager Deirdre Jacob and the mystery disappearanc...
30:27
2023-12-28
This is the story of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch, from his early days as a young hoodlum through to his astonishing acquittal in the Special Criminal Court for the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel. How did this quiet-spoken man from Dublin's north in...
27:28
2023-12-27
This is the story of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch, from his early days as a young hoodlum through to his astonishing acquittal in the Special Criminal Court for the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel. How did this quiet-spoken man from Dublin's north in...
26:33
2023-12-26
This is the story of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch, from his early days as a young hoodlum through to his astonishing acquittal in the Special Criminal Court for the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel. How did this quiet-spoken man from Dublin's north in...
31:59
2023-12-25
This is the story of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch, from his early days as a young hoodlum through to his astonishing acquittal in the Special Criminal Court for the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel. How did this quiet-spoken man from Dublin's north in...
33:00
2023-12-23
It’s been one hell of a year with Crime World topping 16 million downloads as our loyal listeners tune in for the latest news on all things criminal.Today we are turning the tables on you guys and reflecting on what you like to listen to and watch and w...
45:54
2023-12-22
A victim of domestic abuse vanishes from her home in Scotland. Her estranged husband Nat Fraser is the chief suspect but police find he has a rock-solid alibi. Then the tide turns and Fraser finds himself in the dock.The incredible story of tragic mum Arl...
35:33
2023-12-21
It was Ireland’s coldest case that concluded this year when serial rapist Noel Long was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.Now the intricacies of the investigation into the murder of Nora Sheehan and the effects Long had on two families is explor...
31:50
2023-12-20
A Turkish gang war sees a famous DJ kidnapped and tortured to death in a back room of a bar near Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.Five men are charged but all escape murder convictions despite 94 separate injuries identified by an autopsy.Their trials give a uni...
30:27
2023-12-18
A super wealthy nightclub owner is gunned down in Marbella, Spanish police establish money laundering links with the Kinahan Cartel but the murder probe focuses on members of Ridouan Taghi’s Dutch network.This week two men were acquitted of the murder o...
26:46
2023-12-16
A former British soldier is to stand trial for two murders and five attempted murders which happened on Bloody Sunday in Derry almost 52 years ago a court heard this week.So who is the accused known only as Soldier F and what is he alleged to have done th...
22:52
2023-12-16
Shooting victim Noel Boylan sought shelter in a Lidl supermarket in west Dublin after a hooded gunman carried out a daylight attack, the aftermath of which was captured by a Virgin Media TV crew filming the "Inside the K" TV series on Gardaí.The ext...
30:45
2023-12-15
Notorious Kinahan Cartel gangster Liam Byrne has been extradited to England where he is now in custody facing serious firearms charges.The Crumlin crime lord who has spent decades at the very head of an organised crime group operating a franchise for the ...
25:38
2023-12-13
Bosnian mob boss Edin Gacanin is reported to have cut a deal with the Dutch prosecutors and accepted a seven year prison sentence.The incredible plea bargain means that he will serve just a few years for smuggling 2,400 kilos of cocaine.Gacanin is one of ...
16:20
2023-12-11
A Europol crackdown on illegal firearms factories led to a number of searches across Ireland where components for guns as well as imitation handguns were recovered.While files are being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions in relation to the r...
33:41
2023-12-09
Eight leaders of the East Belfast UVF crime gang have been stood down in extraordinary scenes aimed at cleaning up the image of an organisation now being funded to transition from a paramilitary grouping to a community-based political movement.At the hear...
45:42
2023-12-09
Dapper Don Christy Kinahan Snr and his son Daniel are playing Russian Roulette with Vladimir Putin as the Irish Government make moves to bring them home to face charges.In an incredible spin of the wheel, they have placed everything on black and have beco...
25:59
2023-12-08
A seizure of 8 million euro of heroin at Weston Airport, the notorious Family gang understood to be at a loss and two men charged, one who has claimed he was forced to fly the 60kilos into Ireland in fear for his family’s safety.Nicola speaks to Niall D...
20:25
2023-12-06
Football star Paddy McCourt was declared ‘an innocent man’ after a nightmare 22 months involving a conviction for sexual assault concluded when Northern Ireland’s Prosecution Service told an appeals court he had no case to answer.McCourt, a Glasgow ...
17:40
2023-12-04
An Kerryman who is accused of becoming a key figure in the infamous Sinaloa Cartel is wanted in Chile for his alleged role in shipping up to 6,000 kilos of cocaine into Europe.So how did Morris O’Shea, a student from Killorglin Community College get fro...
49:07
2023-12-04
***Originally published in December 2022***Crime World 'boss' Nicola Tallant hosts this special, live edition of The Dingle Whiskey Movie Club from a packed Sugar Club in Dublin. Over the past five weeks our expert panels have rated and reviewed some of t...
25:39
2023-12-02
Loyalist paramilitary Winston ‘Winkie’ Rea died this week days after his wife Liz passed away denying justice to the families of his victims, innocent Catholic men John Devine and John O’Hara.Rae leaves behind a legacy of violence and death along wi...
34:59
2023-12-02
The fate of the crew of the MV Matthew will be played out in court in the coming years as the State makes moves to seize the highly valuable ship.But those who organised the doomed cocaine plot should have considered an earlier plan to use Ireland’s coa...
Episode 439: Man falsely identified on social media as the suspect of stabbing outside Dublin school
27:06
2023-12-01
Special security has been put in place for a man who has been falsely identified on social media as the suspect of last week’s stabbing of children outside a Dublin school.The photograph and other details were widely shared after the publication of an a...
20:22
2023-11-30
A melee at the funeral of a gangland victim, two men injured and taken to hospital and another incidence of shocking violence in a city being seen as lawless.Nicola speaks with Niall Donald as they update listeners on the funeral of gun victim Brandon Led...
26:09
2023-11-29
The funeral of Brandon Ledwidge saw masked youths on motorbikes mount pavements in Finglas this week as a village was brought to a standstill.The 23-year-old murder victim who was shot dead at his front door earlier this month was laid to rest in a steel ...
33:50
2023-11-29
A convicted killer and drug dealer has been jailed in the same week the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) seized his county Cork home.John ‘Keith’ O’Donovan’s run of bad luck saw CAB granted a High Court order to have his house declared the procee...
21:06
2023-11-28
Another assault on a city centre street, a video on social media showing a victim being hit by a machete just a few hundred metres from one of Dublin’s busiest police stations, and a Garda Chief and Justice Minister under fire.As pressure grows on Drew ...
34:49
2023-11-27
The brave actions of a hero care worker, a Deliveroo driver and a passerby who came to the aid of young children who suffered a horrific knife attack in Dublin have been recognised amid the shocking riots that followed a dark day in the capital.As the dus...
22:34
2023-11-25
He is the alleged New IRA chief who has spent more than three years in custody awaiting trial – but is now going to have to wait some more after being denied bail. Davy Jordan was told this week he must remain in prison until he comes before t...
48:48
2023-11-25
Photojournalist Ross McDonnell became a team member of Crime World when he filmed fly-on-the-wall style during the recent Regency trial.A friend and a colleague he was a three-time Emmy award winner by the time he passed away in recent weeks after going m...
33:26
2023-11-24
A shocking stabbing outside a school, and a city on fire.Nicola and Niall discuss the terrible events in Dublin which have left three children and a teacher injured and seen multiple arrests during riots that followed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...
23:21
2023-11-24
A convicted drug dealer has been arrested by gardai in Portlaoise Prison in connection with a plot to murder gangland target James ‘Nellie’ Walsh.Other arrests too have been made as officer focus on a plot to kill cooked up behind bars.So how do crimi...
25:59
2023-11-22
The eyes of the world have been on the terrorist organisation Hezbollah and what they might do as Israel pound Gaza on a mission to destroy Hamas.But who are the Lebanese based group and what sort of war chest might they have should they intensify support...
14:49
2023-11-21
Murdered Brandon Ledwidge who was shot dead in Finglas, Dublin last Saturday night, was due in court today on drug possession and intent to sell charges.Ledwidge (23), who was shot several times as he answered the door of his home on Barry Drive at around...
22:31
2023-11-20
CAB target Jonathan Gill and veteran criminal Martin ‘The Viper’ Foley have been photographed together on a debt collection mission which throws into the spotlight the lack of regulation in Ireland around the industry.The duo, who are well known to Ga...
23:45
2023-11-18
The PSNI has told a court that the daughter of a drug dealer shot dead last year is the “head of an organised crime group”. Mark ‘The Chicken’ Lovell was gunned down in Newry in December – a killing believed to have been ordered by a local drug ...
18:33
2023-11-18
A mother was jailed for money laundering offences and told by a court she could not use her children as a shield from the consequences of her criminality.Gangsters moll Heather McNamara pleaded guilty to offences around cash and a Rolex watch but had said...
21:42
2023-11-17
Jozef Puska heard directly today from Ashling Murphy's loved-ones about the devastating impact his crimes have had on their lives. Ashling's boyfriend, her sister and her mother all gave victim impact statements as Puska was sentenced to life in pris...
41:45
2023-11-17
A judgement is expected in the coming months in a case between the Criminal Assets Bureau and David Waldron - once a top associate of Eamon ‘The Don’ Dunne.Already his brother Christopher has settled his case with CAB agreeing to hand over a house and...
15:47
2023-11-16
Jozef Puska is due to be sentenced on Friday for the murder of Ashling Murphy.In the week since he was found guilty for the brutal killing, many tales about Puska’s past have hit the headlines.Niall Donald talks to Crime World’s Clodagh Meaney about w...
22:06:14
2023-11-15
The kidnap of top supermarket executive Don Tidey and the nationwide manhunt that followed ended 23 days later during a chaotic rescue in a Leitrim wood when a recruit Garda and a soldier lost their lives.Now the incredible story from 1983 and its implica...
56:40
2023-11-13
A new documentary about Ireland’s vanishing triangle which is streaming on Sky focuses on the missing women linked to the sinister Larry Murphy and how he remains a free man.The series which suggests an underground chamber could hold clues to the myster...
2:14
2023-11-13
You can listen to Beast: The Murder of Nora Sheehan now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
41:31
2023-11-11
New PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boucher is an old school detective who cut his teeth with the feared flying squad at the Met Police, who was refused the top job in Northern Ireland at a previous interview and whose Kenova Report is a highly anticipated docum...
28:58
2023-11-11
Convicted Real IRA member Nathan Kinsella has pleaded guilty to tax charges while his partner Jennifer Dunne had money laundering and tax charges dropped against her at the Special Criminal Court.Kinsella will be sentenced next January after the unravelli...
26:58
2023-11-10
The sentencing of Tom and Molly Martens in a North Carolina Court for the manslaughter of Limerick dad Jason Corbett brings some closure to the terrible events of August 2015 when he was bludgeoned to death at his home by the father and daughter.But it ha...
22:14:40
2023-11-10
***First published September 2022***He is New York’s most notorious Russian mobster, who made and lost a fortune from heroin trafficking, tax fraud and diamond smuggling. A gulag survivor hardened by the harsh punishments of the Soviet Union, Boris Biba...
23:55
2023-11-09
Jozef Puska has been found guilty of murdering Ashling Murphy in January 2022. A jury of 3 women and nine men spent just over 2hours and 20 minutes deliberating their verdict. Niall is joined by Crime World’s Clodagh Meaney who was in court as...
35:08
2023-11-09
An underground bunker, a community of internet warriors attempting to create their own other world nirvana and an Irish criminal Godfather afraid of the dark. It sounds like the plot of a Netflix drama - and it is but it’s far from fiction.Nicola speaks...
25:45
2023-11-08
A key member of the Kinahan organisation has been released from prison with another senior operative due out in the coming days.Both Liam Brannigan and Dean Howe have served their sentences for a feud-related conspiracy to kill, and Gardai will be watchin...
1:56
2023-11-08
Coming November 13th.Nora Sheehan, a Cork mother of three, was found murdered on the banks of the River Bandon in 1981. She had suffered a tragic, violent death, and the discovery of her body shocked the community. One local man soon became the chief susp...
18:53
2023-11-07
The prosecution and defence have concluded their closing statements in the trial of Jozef Puska, accused of murdering Ashling Murphy in January 2022. While one side say they’ve established beyond a reasonable doubt that Puska is guilty, the other s...
40:49
2023-11-07
Listen to part two of the first chapter of Nicola Tallant's new book 'Cocaine Cowboys' exclusively on Crime World. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
33:26
2023-11-06
Listen to part one of the first chapter of Nicola Tallant's new book 'Cocaine Cowboys' exclusively on Crime World. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
44:09
2023-11-04
Niall and Nicola swap sides as Niall does the interviewing with Nicola in the hot seat answering questions about her new book Cocaine Cowboys.The book follows the growth of cocaine supply and demand in Ireland and is the definitive tale of the white gold ...
41:54
2023-11-04
Supergrass Gary Haggarty admitted to five murders, another five attempted murders and more than 200 terror offences during his time as an Ulster Volunteer Force boss and before he became a State Witness in Northern Ireland.So how do we take the evidence o...
20:07
2023-11-03
Jozef Puska’s cross examination on the witness stand ended today.During his testimony, Puska says he was stabbed by an unknown man who then proceeded to attack and kill Ashling Murphy.Now there is only one more witness left to be heard in the case as cl...
25:52
2023-11-03
A massive dollars 35 million has been put up as a reward for information into the unsolved death of a wealthy Toronto couple killed in their home in 2017.Barry and Honey Sherman were discovered side by side at their indoor pool with leather belts looped a...
21:24
2023-11-02
Jozef Puska who is on trial accused of murdering Ashling Murphy in 2022 took to the stand today in his own defence.As the prosecution rested their case, the court took a 15-minute recess after which the defendant stepped into the spotlight of the court an...
22:19:52
2023-11-01
American father and daughter Tom and Molly Martens have made a plea bargain deal with North Carolina prosecutors which could see them win their freedom despite admitting they killed tragic dad of two Jason Corbett.Retired FBI agent Tom and his daughter Mo...
28:01
2023-11-01
Last year, the people of Derry marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Bloody Sunday massacre. The brutal attack by the British Army on unarmed protestors left fourteen people dead and has been a source of anger and grief in the city for half a century. No...
18:52
2023-10-31
The prosecution case against Jozef Puska, accused of murdering Ashling Murphy in January 2022 is set to end this week. In court today, Professor Michael Ryan said that there was no evidence to support the suggestion that an admission given to Ga...
32:13
2023-10-31
Witch, devil worshipper and Ireland’s first serial killer are just some of the titles that have been bestowed on Darkey Kelly over the years. Born in the 1700s as Dorcus, she ran a brothel on Fishamble Street in Dublin’s city centre.And while not...
28:44
2023-10-31
Last year, the people of Derry marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Bloody Sunday massacre. The brutal attack by the British Army on unarmed protestors left fourteen people dead and has been a source of anger and grief in the city for half a century. No...
49:03
2023-10-30
Last year, the people of Derry marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Bloody Sunday massacre. The brutal attack by the British Army on unarmed protestors left fourteen people dead and has been a source of anger and grief in the city for half a century. No...
26:44
2023-10-28
Socialite Fran Fennell lived it up on a rollercoaster of holidays and nights out with models and executives while selling vast amount of cocaine to the party circuit. And he made vast profits from a unique cocaine start up which saw him fly human mules fr...
38:01
2023-10-27
A new crime drama co-funded by RTE follows the mystery of a missing Irish couple in New Zealand and features a immoral female crime journalist whose character follows a tired Hollywood cliché of the profession as unethical and ruthless.The International ...
20:51
2023-10-25
The trial of Jozef Puska, accused of killing 23-year-old Ashling Murphy is in its second week.This week, the jury heard about the admissions made in the defendants Garda interviews, the friend who lied to Gardai and Ashling Murphy’s final movements. Nia...
22:01
2023-10-23
Shots fired at the home of former McCarthy-Dundon criminal Jimmy Collins have sparked fears of a new feud erupting in Limerick. Last week, a gunman opened fire on the home on Limerick's Hyde Road following a series of tit -for-tat incidents. It comes as J...
37:12
2023-10-21
Children are being radicalised by drug gangs and being turned into killers in the same way that terrorists have, and now the EU wants to develop an early-warning system for countries to recognise the process.The tsunami of cocaine, which is still coming f...
BEST OF CRIME WORLD: The man who has come face to face with the world's most-depraved Serial Killers
52:44
2023-10-20
He’s the UK’s number-one true crime author who made his name from his conversations with serial killers.But what made former Royal Marine Christopher Berry-Dee want to get up close and personal with the world’s most depraved.?From Aileen Wournos to ...
22:51
2023-10-19
The trial of Jozef Puska accused of murdering 23-year-old schoolteacher Ashling Murphy in Tullamore last year continued today in front of a jury of 3 women and 9 men. The court heard harrowing details from the post-mortem as well as other evidence from th...
20:10
2023-10-18
The trial of Jozef Puska, accused of the murder of Ashling Murphy in Tullamore in January 2022 opened at the Central Criminal Court this week.Niall Donald speaks to Crime World’s Clodagh Meaney about the witnesses who came upon the scene and the prosecu...
46:20
2023-10-18
The Regency hotel trial lifted the lid on the once secretive links between Dublin's gangland criminals and armed republican groups.Secret recordings of conversations played in court showed how Gerry Hutch still believed the IRA had the power to call a hal...
22:12:02
2023-10-16
The intriguing story of IRA double agent Freddie Scappaticci is one of mystery and fascination and for years has been the subject of the Operation Kenova investigation due to be published in coming weeks.Nicola speaks with author and former Provision IRA ...
44:03
2023-10-14
The murder of 19 year old Una Lynskey is set to be the subject of a Garda cold case review 52 years after she was snatched from a roadside in County Meath.But behind the mystery lie layers of scandalous allegations surrounding the Garda’s so called Heav...
20:21
2023-10-13
Remains found behind a wall under the stairs in missing Tina Satchwell home have been confirmed to be the 45 year old woman.And a man remains in custody but Gardai will have to make a decision by tonight on whether to charge or release him.Nicola speaks w...
42:17
2023-10-13
Spanish judges have approved the extradition of Kinahan mobster Liam Byrne to the UK where he is set to go on trial with his brother-in-law Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh and others for weapons offences.In jail in a Palma prison since his arrest on Majorca ...
50:24
2023-10-13
***Episode first published in February 2022***It’s the white gold that has turned street dealers into billionaires and corrupted politicians, police and even the judiciary with its promises of wealth beyond dreams.Cocaine starts out life as a leaf on a ...
22:19
2023-10-12
A man has been arrested after suspected human remains were found during a search of a property in Cork by gardaí investigating the disappearance of Tina Satchwell in 2017.In a series of developments today, suspected human remains were located, with State...
39:54
2023-10-11
The death of rap icon Tupac Shakur has been the stuff of books, films and even song but now a Nevada grand jury has charged a 60 year old former gang leader with the cold case killing.Duane Keffe D Davis was one of the four original suspects for the Las V...
47:57
2023-10-09
The conglomerate of mobs who ordered two tonnes of cocaine nabbed off the Irish coast last week is yet to be firmly established but what is know is that it was shipped by the Clan Del Golfo - Colombia’s largest cartel.6000 strong and based in the jungle...
46:41
2023-10-07
It’s 20 months since Ukraine was first attacked by Russian forces in a ruthless war that has shocked Europe and left millions displaced.A massive death toll, horrific injuries and untold trauma has followed for the people of the towns and cities under a...
48:29
2023-10-06
***This episode was originally published in November 2021***When killer Joe O’Reilly bludgeoned his wife Rachel to death at their home in the Naul, Co Dublin, in October 2004 he thought he’d get away with murder.But years after he was convicted to a l...
43:11
2023-10-05
Carl Frampton has defended his involvement with MTK boxing promotions, the company founded by Daniel Kinahan.The boxer says he has no regrets and enjoyed a life changing pay day after signing up in 2017.But is Frampton being tone deaf when it comes to Kin...
28:54
2023-10-04
A hitman desperate to become part of the Kinahan organisation tried to kill The Monk’s brother John and another relative to pay off a drug debt and ingratiate himself in the mob.Michael Carroll got 22 years in prison this week for the ruthless assassina...
32:23
2023-10-02
A notorious burglary gang headed up by the son of ‘Fat’ Andy Connors have been nabbed again after they were caught with a car load of burglary tools.John Connors who featured on the UK’s crime watch show was arrested with Thomas Wall who both now fa...
45:16
2023-09-30
A €500 million cocaine haul on the Waterford Cork coast involving army rangers, customs, Gardai, the Naval Service and Air Corps.The Kinahan cartel and Iranian links to Hezbollah form key parts of the investigation.But what does the hidden haul on the ...
17:52
2023-09-29
Veteran criminal Dean Russell says he is no longer involved in anything more than community work and that he’s now an innocent man.But this week the Criminal Assets Bureau are putting his house up for sale with a euro 300k price tag after he handed them...
43:15
2023-09-29
**This episode was first published in January 2023**He was the notorious Cosa Nostra boss who lived in hiding for 30 years and who was responsible for terrorist atrocities against Italy. Matteo Messina Denaro was amongst a group of violent mafia bosses wh...
38:38
2023-09-27
Rival gangs in Limerick’s lethal underworld feud dealt with a ‘Board of Governors’ of criminal businessman to launder their cash and make deals.Nicola speaks with journalist Eamon Dillon about the massive secret Garda investigation into the city’s...
29:43
2023-09-25
An arson attack on an innocent family home, two sworn enemies locked in a bitter feud and fears that tensions will escalate.Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the fire in a Clondalkin house in Dublin linked to the 10 year row between gangland hot head ...
30:13
2023-09-24
She is the glamorous wife of caged Sinaloa Cartel boss Joachim El Chapo Guzman and the mother of their two kids and she has just been freed from jail to start her new life without him. Emma Coronel Aispuro sat loyally by his side as her husband was jailed...
40:55
2023-09-23
Superstar Russell Brand is the latest celebrity to be hit with claims of sex assault by victims which would have once devastated his career.But what is the likely outcome for the star from the sensational claims by four women who say he assaulted and rape...
37:48
2023-09-20
An infamous financial adviser is found to have shared an office with Daniel Kinahan in Dubai where he claimed to have become a money guru for the young and ambitious.But was Norwegian native Thomas Stray, famous in Denmark for his boom and bust lifestyle,...
22:08:48
2023-09-18
Nicola is joined by columnist and sports writer Roy Curtis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
45:06
2023-09-16
An estimated €188B in dirty money washes around the European economy every year - that’s according to a new EU report on the finances of organised crime.Nicola talks to journalist Eamon Dillon about dirty money and what the criminals are doing with it...
36:12
2023-09-15
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has appeared in a promotional video for Dubai police but is this a PR stunt for the embattled boss or is it building bridges as the screw tightens on the Kinahan Organised Crime Group?Nicola is joined by Niall Donald and Eam...
20:58
2023-09-13
A Canadian former chef is before the courts in Toronto after it was discovered he'd been sending suicide kits out all over the world, resulting in what cops believe is at least 100 deaths. Today, I'm talking with journalist Brad Hunter about Kenneth Law a...
40:52
2023-09-12
As Crime World continues to celebrate 50 years of the Sunday World, Nicola is joined by Features Editor Daragh Keany. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
47:19
2023-09-09
A new fly-on-the-wall series following gardai on the beat in one of the country's most troubled neighbourhoods is giving viewers a window into ground zero of the drug crisis. Children groomed by drug gangs, living in stash houses and watching as their par...
29:33
2023-09-08
IT is the high-security jail where Christy Kinahan snr and his two sons are likely to be held if they are ever extradited to Ireland.Portlaoise Prison is the State’s only maximum security jail and is protected by a detachment of armed soldiers who patro...
25:11
2023-09-08
A brutal assault on a young teenager by a violent drugs mob known as the Monkey Gang.A land grab by the group in the feud ridden Dublin area of Finglas where their strength and power is growing through intimidation and cost cutting.Today I’m talking wit...
30:02
2023-09-06
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has travelled to the United Arab Emirates, in a move that has raised hopes that the Kinahan top command may be on their way home. However, a file compiled over years by officers at the Garda's Drug and Organized Crime Bureau...
41:34
2023-09-04
Nicola is joined by Sean Boyne, the very former News Editor who named the paper. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
40:08
2023-09-02
A TV show featuring a lengthy interview with criminal John Gilligan is set to air this week in what is being dubbed the ‘Confessions of a Crime Lord.’But does the Virgin Media show deliver what it says or has it simply given the publicity hungry Gilli...
46:09
2023-09-01
Nurse Lucy Letby lived an unremarkable, ordinary life before becoming a suspect in one of the most barbaric and heinous crime imaginable – killing seven newborn babies. While working in a UK hospital, the 33-year-old carried went on a killing spree wher...
15:42
2023-08-31
A video showing a gang of masked men smashing up a halting site with slash hooks and sledge-hammers in Co Clare has gone viral this week on social media. The shocking attack is the latest incident being linked to a long running feud between criminals in t...
27:50
2023-08-30
He once headed-up a gang who allegedly specialised in multi-million euro bank heists – but now Stefan Saunders is set to use his skills to launch a new career as a locksmith.Last year, CAB seized two homes, as well as luxury cars from Saunders, after th...
19:12
2023-08-28
After a summer of headlines about violence in Dublin, armed Gardai are set to patrol the streets of the city it was announced that armed officers will maintain a visible presence in the city after an outcry about the law-and-order. The new €10 milli...
40:26
2023-08-28
This week, Nicola is joined by John 'Jumbo' Kierans to reminisce about his years with the Sunday World. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
22:02:13
2023-08-26
A homecoming of epic proportions will be on the cards for the leaders of the Kinahan organised crime group as the Irish director of public prosecutions considers which charges to level against Christy Kinahan Snr and his sons Daniel, and Christopher Jnr.A...
47:47
2023-08-25
Former kick boxer turned internet influencer Andrew Tate has been on a publicity blitz from his compound in Romania since he was released on house arrest and more recently limited to travel within Bucharest.Facing possible rape and human trafficking charg...
14:10
2023-08-24
As Noel Long begins a life sentence for the cold case murder of mother of three Nora Sheehan, new details of his suspected links to attacks on sex workers have emerged.Last week long lodged an appeal against his conviction for the murder in Cork 42 years ...
27:12
2023-08-23
They are the mouth watering sums of money that the Criminal Assets Bureau claim are the proceeds of crime. But their target insists was partly funded by working as an escort in Australia.Mary Cash made headlines when the high court heard details of her la...
22:01:04
2023-08-21
As Crime World continues to celebrate 50 years of the Sunday World, Nicola is joined by Journalist Eamon Dillon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
35:43
2023-08-19
Kinahan Cartel boss Ross Browning has turned poet in an effort to explain what lured him to life on the wrong side of the tracks.Browning who has just lost his vast home in north Dublin to the Criminal Assets Bureau after its as deemed the proceeds of cri...
32:08
2023-08-18
A data breach of epic proportions, a police force scrambling for calm amidst fears of intimidation and an eye watering bill to fix a home-goal mistake which is unequalled.Nicola is joined by Belfast Telegraph Crime Correspondent Allison Morris to discuss...
29:31
2023-08-16
It is the shocking report that detailed how young children in the care of the state are being targeted for sex by predatory men.A paper published by academics in UCD detailed how school girls are being coerced into carrying out sex acts in exchange for lu...
47:50
2023-08-14
Nicola Tallant is joined by Showbiz Editor Eddie Rowley to discuss his career. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Episode 348: The truth behind the world of money laundering, drugs and international narco-terrorism
47:37
2023-08-12
An intrepid Irish American cop joins the dots between Hezbollah, Syrian Dictator Bashar Al Assad’s brutal war, and some of Europe’s biggest drug lords.It sounds the plot from an episode of Homelands but it’s all true and forms the incredible geo pol...
33:01
2023-08-12
He's the former Scotland Yard detective who headed up the hunt for the supplier of dangerous MAC 10 automatic machine guns that found their way into the hands of underworld criminals, terrifying communities and facilitating murders from Dublin to Glasgow ...
20:43
2023-08-09
Cold case killer Noel Long was jailed last week for the murder of tragic mum Nora Sheehan in Cork 42 years ago.But this week his sister has said she was afraid of him since she was just six.Nicola is joined by Crime World’s Clodagh Meaney to talk about ...
34:58
2023-08-09
Thomas Bomber Kavanagh co-operated with police during an investigation into weapons and their location in Ireland.The crime boss, serving 21 years in prison for drug dealing, appeared in court on weapon charges but a Judge at Westminster Magistrates Court...
37:40
2023-08-07
As Crime World continues to celebrate turning 50, Nicola is joined by former Managing Editor of the newspaper, Neil Leslie. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
59:23
2023-08-05
A caravan park millionaire Maurice Sines has made news in the high profile financial bible Bloomberg after setting in place a train of events that has threatened the liquidity of a multi billion euro company.But who is Sines and what are his connections t...
45:46
2023-08-04
Cold case killer Noel Long was found guilty today of the murder Nora Sheehan in Cork 42 years ago.Crime World's Clodagh Meaney attended the trial and heard the in camera evidence and arguments as he tried repeatedly to have the charges withdrawn.She was a...
32:02
2023-08-04
It operates under different legislation in a country divided by a border which may be invisible to criminals, but which is very clear in different policing practices. But has the North had any more success with evidence given by those on the witness Prote...
13:06
2023-08-03
The jury in the trial of 74 year old man Noel Long who is accused of the murder of Nora Sheehan in 1981 retired on Thursday evening to resume deliberations on Friday morning.Long of Passage West in Cork has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court...
24:32
2023-08-02
As the prosecution and defence gave their closing speeches in the murder trial of Noel Long accused in the 1981 death of Nora Sheehan, we look at the final comments, the evidence and what we expect to happen next.Clodagh Meaney speaks to Niall Donald abo...
22:07:26
2023-08-02
A dismembered body of an unidentified victim, a missing head and a mystery that took years to solve. The case of Farah Swaleh Noor and the so called Scissor Sisters who were convicted of his brutal death fascinated the nation but behind the scenes one Det...
19:56
2023-08-01
The trial of Noel Long for the murder of Nora Sheehan in 1981 is entering it’s final phase this week when the Prosecution and the Defence give their closing speeches.Long has pleaded not guilty to the cold case murder of the 54 year old woman from Bally...
22:07:46
2023-07-31
For the second episode of our Crime World special marking the 50th birthday of the Sunday World, Nicola is joined by Fr Brian D'arcy. The Catholic priest has been a columnist with the newspaper for almost half a century. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
24:53
2023-07-29
It was the attack that lead the US to warn tourists to 'keep a low profile' in Dublin city centre. Last week, New York native Stephen Termini was left with possible life-changing injuries after an attack on Dublin’s Talbot Street. The shocking attac...
34:28
2023-07-28
He was Scotland's first ambitious drug baron who went from being a diver in the oil industry to a major league importer. Ambitious and ruthless, Julian Chisholm rose the ranks at an incredible speed as he plotted to use Scotland's sleepy fishing villages ...
26:13
2023-07-26
A security crises for the state with a breach that could be one of the most serious ever discovered in Ireland.Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about the stand off between top Gardai, the Criminal Assets Bureau and Revenue after an officer with full access t...
30:42
2023-07-26
Curtis ‘Cocky’ Warren in one of Liverpool's most infamous drug lords but after serving a lengthy sentence behind bars he could be heading straight back to jail after breaching strict rules around his release.Once on the Sunday Times rich list the crim...
58:24
2023-07-24
This year marks the 50th birthday of your favourite Sunday World newspaper and what a half century it has been.To celebrate we are looking back over some of the front page stories, scandals with the big name journalists who made it the People’s Paper.So...
52:16
2023-07-22
US sanctions against the Kinahan mob have been extended to a number of key associates linked to the European Super Cartel.But with all still finding shelter and safety in the United Arab Emirates can we trust Dubai to hand back the wanted?Nicola is joined...
25:07
2023-07-21
She made headlines for all the wrong reasons when she was dubbed a ‘Gangsta Granny’ in a pun on the David Walliams children’s book.But Deirdre Brady insists that she was only doing what she told when she laundered cash for the mob and was too afraid...
13:15
2023-07-20
DNA taken from possessions belonging to cold case murder accused Noel Long was sent to a UK laboratory in 2022 a court has heard.Long has denied murdering 54 year old Nora Sheehan whose body was discovered in June 1981 in undergrowth near Cork City.Clodag...
38:34
2023-07-19
He is known as the Kinahan Cartel odd bod the strange outrider who tried desperately to cut the cord with organised crime.Ross Browning once claimed he’d turned his back on his childhood friends to forge a new life in a spiritual, vegan zen of healthy l...
41:54
2023-07-17
Killer Wayne Dundon was transferred to Portlaoise Prison last week after a fight with a fellow inmate which turned into a mass brawl resulting in four staff from Mountjoy Jail being hospitalised.But on arrival at the prison he failed a test in the so call...
15:38
2023-07-15
74 year old Noel Long went on trial this week accused of the murder of Nora Sheehan in 1981.The then 54 year old was found dead at Shippool Woods in Co Cork six days after she vanished.As the trial gets underway, Nicola is joined by Clodagh Meaney and Nia...
37:32
2023-07-15
The man suspected of murdering his girlfriend Kirsty Ward in a Spanish hotel has released a selfie video from his prison denying he had anything to do with her death and claiming the truth will out.But 30 year old Keith Byrne remains under investigation a...
21:26
2023-07-14
Hitman for hire Alan Wilson lashed out at prison officers during a shift change in the Midlands Prison as he said he didn’t recognise the new wardens landing himself a transfer to the top security jail in the country.So how do officers cope and what do ...
34:58
2023-07-12
Killer Aaron Brady is set to appeal his conviction for the capital murder of Garda Adrian Donohoe next October.But in the meantime an online campaign for his freedom is claiming that he is the victim of a stitch up and amongst other inconsistencies he was...
38:34
2023-07-11
Former Late Late Show host Ryan Tubridy came out fighting for his career today during six gruelling hours before the Oireachtas Committees who quizzed him and agent Noel Kelly about payments from the public purse.As the RTE scandal continues into it’s t...
22:04:58
2023-07-10
Martin ‘The Viper’ Foley could be facing a short jail term after pleading guilty to engaging in threatening behaviour as he attempted to recover a debt from a Wexford pensioner.The 67 year old who is one of Ireland’s most notorious gangland criminal...
34:52
2023-07-08
IT'S the diamond capital of Europe and the second city of Belgium, but Antwerp is also on par with Rotterdam as the largest entry point for cocaine into the continent.Last year, 110 tonnes of the powder was seized at the city's sprawling port, where autho...
39:04
2023-07-07
It's almost two years since famous Dutch journalist Peter R. De Vries was shot dead on an Amsterdam street in an assassination believed to have been ordered by Marengo suspect Ridouan Taghi.For decades, the 65-year-old TV star had been a voice for victims...
9:32
2023-07-05
A mystery on a Donegal cliff side, an idyllic fishing community left in shock and a victim with a shady past.Nicola speaks to journalist Allison Morris about the death of 67 year old trucker Robert Wilkins and the reasons why he was in Killybegs. Hosted ...
49:02
2023-07-05
Journalist Jan Meeus a senior reporter at NRC in Amsterdam didn’t start out as a crime hack but since he made the transition from his finance beat he’s become one of the best known in the Netherlands.His latest book 'De Schiedamse - Cocaine Mafia' tel...
25:39
2023-07-03
The Marengo trial is the largest ever held in the Netherlands and at the centre of it sits gang leader, Ridouan Taghi, a business partner and friend of Daniel Kinahan, who's reigned terror on Europe.A street dealer turned millionaire cocaine boss, he's th...
41:00
2023-07-02
The opinion of a psychiatric report prepared for the Coroner investigating the death of teenager Noah Donohoe is that he died from suicide while struggling with his sexuality and having built up an obsession with controversial psychologist Jordan Peterson...
40:59
2023-07-01
Trouble at RTE over the payment of Ryan Tubridy’s complete salary has led to calls in the Dail for the arrest of former Director General Dee Forbes and for the Gardai to be called in to probe the legality of what occurred.However, despite public fury an...
19:36
2023-06-30
Gangsters moll Natasha McEnroe swapped her killer partner for a new man when he was locked up for murder.But later she and partner Paul Geraghty faced the wrath of mob boss heavy Brian Rattigan when he put a price on his love rivals head.But the peace lin...
37:20
2023-06-28
A Europol press conference has heard about the phenomenal on-going success of the EncroChat investigation with the release of updated figures showing that more than 6,500 suspects have now been arrested with cash and assets topping €1B seized.The succes...
28:15
2023-06-26
A murderous couple who looked like ordinary newlyweds but who hid a dark secret. A series of shocking rapes and murders of teenage girls and finally a bust up between them which led to their capture.So who were the Ken and Barbie killers and why are they ...
55:03
2023-06-24
A murder trial in Amsterdam, business dealings in the diamond district of Antwerp and a secretive money launderer from a posh south county Dublin neighbourhood.This week on Crime World Nicola chats with colleagues Niall Donald and Eamon Dillon about the b...
51:26
2023-06-23
14-year-old Noah Donohoe snuck out of his Belfast home in the early hours of the morning he disappeared and took a secret 35 minute trip before returning without his shoes or headphones a team headed by investigative journalist Donal MacIntyre has found.T...
19:09
2023-06-22
State witness Jonathan Dowdall has been back in court appealing the length of a 4 year sentence he was handed down after he pled guilty to facilitating the Hutch gang by making a room at the Regency Hotel available to them.The former Sinn Fein councillor ...
50:03
2023-06-21
The true crime genre is one of the world’s most popular in books, podcasts, tv shows and films but what is it that makes us so drawn to violence and and all things criminal?Nicola is talking to author and columnist Sarah Weinman whose latest book Eviden...
22:09:29
2023-06-19
Golf fans and some of the sports top stars were left reeling recently when the PGA did a deal with Saudi Arabia and its bulging public investment fund.But the reshaping of professional golf is just the latest in a string of sports that have been lured to ...
43:52
2023-06-17
The trial of Dutch murder suspect Ridouan Taghi gets underway in the Netherlands again this week as it moves into the final phase and as he asks the court to block all further reporting.Taghi is expected to request the remainder of the case be heard in ca...
49:02
2023-06-16
Social media influencer Andrew Tate along with his brother Tristan and two other suspects are being investigated for human trafficking as Romanian authorities say they have filed charges against them while the case remains under investigation.But who are ...
22:23
2023-06-15
Criminals are always looking for weakness in people, organisations and particularly in systems where they can launder their dirty cash and wash it into the legitimate economy.But how can businesses and individuals safeguard themselves from being used by d...
42:58
2023-06-14
Journalist Jane MacSorely sipped a glass of Champagne and stared at the man on the oxygen tank who had invited her to dinner.It was probably the strangest interview she'd ever done in her entire career, but it was also the beginning of a journey that woul...
20:54
2023-06-12
Rock 'n' Roll legend Tina Turner never realised the impact her powerful ballad 'Simply The Best' was going to have on one of Northern Ireland’s most feared terrorists but when he embraced the song as his own she had to send her lawyers out in force for ...
57:44
2023-06-10
The Encrochat phone hack which has been the catalyst for the sensational arrest of Kinahan Cartel lieutenant Liam Byrne on Majorca this week has netted hundreds of criminals their cash, guns and drugs for police forces across Europe.But Ireland’s stance...
31:40
2023-06-09
Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch has failed in his court bid to recoup his massive legal costs from the Regency murder trial.The Special Criminal Court has refused his application saying there was no unfairness by the State in bringing Hutch to trial over 52 da...
49:55
2023-06-07
Kinahan Cartel target Liam Byrne has networked with a host of celebrities from the world of sport in recent years managing to moonlight between days out at Ascot races and what officers say is a seedy underbelly of organised crime.With his son Lee current...
23:00
2023-06-06
A self described ‘British fascist’ has admitted that he shared terrorist documents on a Telegram channel and now faces a lengthy jail term.Gym fanatic Kristopher Kearney was arrested and extradited from Alicante in Spain where he was running the socia...
25:08
2023-06-05
Kinahan Cartel kingpin Liam Byrne has been arrested on the holiday island of Majorca after slipping home from Dubai to meet his family.The 42 year old is wanted in the UK on serious firearms and organised crime offences and will face extradition to the co...
42:28
2023-06-05
He is a convicted terrorist and a self professed killer involved in up to 27 murders but 'Border Fox' Dessie O’Hare is also a devoted husband who practices yoga, prays to Our Lady and meditates every day.So who is this complex character who runs one of ...
47:03
2023-06-03
It’s the sex scandal that has rocked ITV and pitted two powerful presenters against a former colleague as allegations of Phillip Schofield’s relationship with a young male he first met aged 15 have been confirmed.This week as the This Morning affair d...
46:58
2023-06-02
A tiny Iranian island known as the Pearl of the Persian Gulf has been identified as a hub for Kinahan dirty money and is where America’s Drug Enforcement Agency believe that their drug funds made their way into the hands of Hezbollah.Kish Island is part...
26:12
2023-05-31
Evidence heard during the first court appearance of seven men charged with the attempted murder of DCI John Caldwell in Tyrone last February show a complex enterprise to kill which was more personal than political.A Special sitting of Dungannon Magistrate...
35:04
2023-05-29
King of the Road Thomas Maher was handed down 14 years in prison when he pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and money laundering offences after messages on his phone led police and Gardai to his supply chain which transported drugs across Europe and cash ...
51:57
2023-05-27
Mexican based author Ioan Grillo has worked as a crime journalist for more than 20 years in a country that is a true narco state.Over two decades interviewing drug users, hitmen, cartel bosses and the politicians who take their money, Grillo has formed a ...
27:10
2023-05-26
Gardaí have officially joined the queue in a bid to talk with Italian super cartel member Raffaele Imperiale who spent years in business with mob boss Daniel Kinahan.Officers from the Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau have formally linked up with Italy's ...
49:14
2023-05-24
SERIAL killers are one of the most fascinating and spoken about facets of the true crime genre. But what makes a murderer and why are we so interested in their dark and twisted minds?Crime World's Clodagh Meaney talks to psychologist and crime commentator...
27:01
2023-05-22
IT was the headline that vent viral 1983 style, inspired the movies and is being celebrated by old school tabloid hacks across the world 40 years on."Headless Body in Topless Bar" was penned by the legendary New York Post editor Vincent Musetto after a co...
51:06
2023-05-20
Ireland’s most secure prison is a melting pot of some of the most dangerous, notorious and difficult inmates where each landing is ruled by a top dog and where official and underworld rules apply.But troublemakers in the real world don’t change behind...
14:53
2023-05-19
THE weigh in is due to take place today for the big fight between homecoming hero Katie Taylor and her boxing rival Chantelle Cameron.The ticket only event is expected to be heavily secured and policed as will the fight night tomorrow as a direct response...
29:53
2023-05-17
THEY'RE the doomsday preppers who were arrested while on honeymoon in Hawaii.Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell were wanted by police as their children Tylee and JJ had not been seen by family or friends in months. As concern among loved ones grew, Lori’s lie...
23:45
2023-05-15
GANG boss Barry Young ran a mob of 20 drug dealers and sent out enforcers to collect his debts in Sligo often smashing up homes for less than €500 owed.However, in his defence during a sentence hearing in the Special Criminal Court where he has pleaded ...
42:28
2023-05-13
THE jailing of Regency getaway men Jason Bonney and Paul Murphy for a total of 17.5 years brings to an end one chapter in the gangland story which has enthralled Ireland for more than seven years.With Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch settling down to life as a ...
29:51
2023-05-12
THEY are the violent deaths that can leave shattered families struggling for answers afterwards.This month two high profile cases heard how insanity was used as a defence in separate shocking deaths. Julie Flood was found not guilty of her father's murder...
27:39
2023-05-11
ALMOST 100 years ago a team of untouchables brought down Al Capone following a trail of money that led right to the top of his crime empire.But today modern investigators are finding that the same techniques and proven investigation skills are as relevant...
36:58
2023-05-09
SHE'S the former nurse and police officer who changed a city’s descent into violence by a mixture of understanding, compassion and getting up close and personal to criminals and would be offenders at their most vulnerable moments.Inspirational and brimm...
25:01
2023-05-06
GER DUNDON was yesterday sentenced to 15 years for his role in a kidnap and extortion plot in the UK, in a hearing that shed some light on a tangled web of mobsters, killers and violent criminal gangs who were all closely linked to the murder of hitman Ro...
41:54
2023-05-04
HE is the consultant psychiatrist with his finger on the pulse when it comes to alcohol abuse, cocaine use and gambling addictions.With an expertise in the use of medicine to help those trying to quit acute and dangerous habits, Professor Colin O’Gara s...
29:12
2023-05-02
HE is the notorious gangland killer currently serving a life sentence but is still spreading fear outside the prison walls. In February, convicted killer Christopher Dunne was caught with drugs after returning to Mountjoy Prison from a hospital visit. The...
36:07
2023-04-29
A €1 million bounty on the head of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch, a down payment given to a terrorist to entice him to carry out the job and a vipers' nest of dissident Republicans identified in the aftermath of The Regency trial.Nicola Tallant is joined b...
30:27
2023-04-28
THIS is the story of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch, from his early days as a young hoodlum through to his astonishing acquittal in the Special Criminal Court for the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel.How did this quiet-spoken man from Dublin's north inn...
27:28
2023-04-26
THIS is the story of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch, from his early days as a young hoodlum through to his astonishing acquittal in the Special Criminal Court for the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel.How did this quiet-spoken man from Dublin's north inn...
26:33
2023-04-24
THIS is the story of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch, from his early days as a young hoodlum through to his astonishing acquittal in the Special Criminal Court for the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel.How did this quiet-spoken man from Dublin's north inn...
31:59
2023-04-22
THIS is the story of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch, from his early days as a young hoodlum through to his astonishing acquittal in the Special Criminal Court for the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel.How did this quiet-spoken man from Dublin's north inn...
48:56
2023-04-19
HE'S been cleared of murder charges in the Regency trial and has gone straight back into the bosom of his family in Dublin’s north inner city.But while the Hutch clan are celebrating the freedom of their elder Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch, they have been ...
48:43
2023-04-17
GERRY ‘The Monk’ Hutch walked free from court an innocent man after being found not guilty of the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel.After a dramatic end to proceedings and a sensational judgement that branded State witness Jonathan Dowdall a ...
39:46
2023-04-15
GERRY ‘The Monk’ Hutch will learn his fate on Monday when three judges from the Special Criminal Court return with a verdict after his lengthy murder trial. The stakes couldn’t be higher for the veteran criminal, who faces either freedom or a life s...
18:56
2023-04-14
IT'S a sensitive and tragic cold-case murder that has become part of the fabric of south Kerry. When five-day-old 'Baby John' washed up on a Kerry beach, his tiny body riddled with 28 stab wounds and his remains placed in a manure sack, nobody could have ...
42:37
2023-04-12
THE Marengo case against super-cartel kingpin Ridouan Taghi is drawing to a close in the Netherlands, where state prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for the feared gangster and a number of his senior lieutenants.Decrypted messages taken from a series...
22:01:21
2023-04-11
One year since the Kinahan Organised Crime Group were sanctioned by the US treasury, the bad news has continued for it’s exiled leaders in Dubai.Nicola talks to journalist Eamon Dillon about the dramatic arrests, shocking revelations and the complex tak...
36:39
2023-04-08
IT'S the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement when a monumental task was achieved, and political divides agreed to peace in Northern Ireland.So what has that 67-page document meant for those living north of the border and for their futures, and can we...
54:08
2023-04-07
He is locked up in a Colorado jail with some of the world’s most notorious prisoners, but the legacy of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman lives on in a never ending cycle of violence and corruption in Mexico.Since his incarceration his Sinaloa Cartel has continue...
46:14
2023-04-05
Frank Sinatra or Ol' Blue Eyes as he was known was one of the most popular entertainers in the 1940s and 50s. A singer, an actor and a member of the famous Rat Pack, the New Jersey-born, bobby soxxer was also moonlighting as an associate of the mafia.Crim...
22:03:36
2023-04-03
He has dedicated his life to working with those in crisis and Vivian Geiran, the former Director of the Probation and Parole service of Ireland, has had to manage the supervision of hundreds of criminals released from jail.So how do you manage a killer in...
47:08
2023-04-01
SERIAL sex offender Maurice Fitzgerald was jailed this week after he pleaded guilty to a shocking attack on a woman who he bound and gagged with duct tape and dragged down a city lane way.The former jockey had taken a train from Cork to Dublin and hunted ...
26:12
2023-03-31
The shock arrest of a man and a woman by officers investigating the case of the Kerry Baby could bring to an end the mystery of who the parents of the child are.But however Baby John came to wash up on a beach with multiple stab wounds remains a mystery. ...
39:04
2023-03-29
They were once the most powerful force in America, bigger than General Motors and with a finger in every pie from politics to prostitution.But what has become of the Mafia and its old school criminal code? Is it a dying force? Has the mafia peaked or has ...
24:37
2023-03-27
Boxing champion Katie Taylor is building up for a homecoming in Dublin in May in the 3 Arena.But behind the scenes characters who once surrounded and defended mob boss Daniel Kinahan are lurking.Boxer trainer Jamie Moore and others who had previous ties t...
42:55
2023-03-25
Killer Patrick Quirke was celebrating a Supreme Court victory this week that could potentially see him re-tried for the murder of Mr Moonlight Bobby Ryan.The Tipperary farmer who weaved a tangled web of sex, betrayal and murder was told that a warrant use...
35:51
2023-03-24
New INLA enforcer Gerard Mackin is behind bars cosying up with Kinahan Cartel leaders in Portlaoise Jail as he awaits sentence for money laundering.The brutal enforcer whose career in terror goes all the way back to his early 20s is a violent figure who o...
32:52
2023-03-22
Killer Stephen Silver will be sentenced to 40 years behind bars when he next appears before the Special Criminal Court where victim impact statements from the family of Garda Colm Horkan are expected to be read.Silver, who is 46, will not even be eligible...
33:32
2023-03-20
Almost a year since the dramatic US sanctions of the Kinahan Organisation and its leadership, Bosnian mob boss Edin Gacanin has now been named alongside the Irish mob as a business partner under the same financial restrictions.Gacinin, who’s the boss of...
29:40
2023-03-18
MOB boss Barry Young has pleaded guilty to directing a criminal organisation - a charge which can carry up to life imprisonment.A massive 16,000 text messages taken from WhatsApp were among key evidence against him, which will be heard during sentencing.B...
BEST OF CRIME WORLD: The secret service spooks and the White House love affair with Ireland (Repost)
56:27
2023-03-17
They are the black-suited operatives whose role is to protect the President of the United States - and if Joe Biden’s plans to visit Ireland this summer come to pass they will be crawling around the highways and byways of the country to make safe his pa...
33:00
2023-03-16
THE Kinahan Organised Crime Group were dealt another blow last week when a court heard that a breakthrough in encryption-cracking technology had led gardai to the gang's top commander in Dublin and his drugs and weapons storehouse.Douglas Glynn, already s...
29:14
2023-03-14
SHAMED attorney Alex Murdaugh is beginning two life sentences in the US after being found guilty of the murders of his wife Maggie and his son Paul.But while preparing to appeal the verdict, he's also facing an avalanche of further investigations into fra...
46:14
2023-03-11
THE funeral of gangland hard-man Cornelius Price took place in the UK this week, complete with three Lamborghinis to lead the cortège, floral tributes of guns, chainsaws and one curious front page of the Sunday World.Beloved by his family, ‘Nailyboy’...
28:10
2023-03-08
A 30 year old nephew of gang boss Christy Keane tried to convince a court that 580 euro worth of cocaine and 1300 in cash along with two mobile phones was for his own use at a family wedding in plush the Bunratty Castle in Limerick.But his claims fell on ...
44:25
2023-03-06
He remains one of the UK’s most written about criminals, an old school fence involved in the infamous Brinks Mat Robbery and who made his name after a sensational road rage incident which saw him go on the run for more than two years.Kenneth Noye was no...
55:43
2023-03-04
They were the two faces of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger boom, friends who partied hard with pretty models and had champagne by the bucket-load.Jim Mansfield Jnr and Marcus Sweeney mixed with high society and graced the celebrity gossip columns, but both hid d...
31:59
2023-03-01
A car has emerged as a key piece of evidence in the attempted murder of PSNI Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell after football training in Omaha last week - a callous shooting which has shocked all Ireland.The second hand Fiesta purchased in a privat...
32:25
2023-02-28
Italian mob boss Raffaele Imperiale spent years living it up in Dubai and doing business with members of the so-called Super Cartel including Dutch drug baron Ridouan Taghi and Daniel Kinahan.But police hacks into encrypted phone networks made a bullet pr...
27:25
2023-02-27
It’s the case that is fascinating America. A multi millionaire lawyer from a prominent legal dynasty reports finding his wife and son dead on the grounds of their isolated hunting lodge. Both have been shot. A police investigation finds him the suspect ...
22:15:53
2023-02-25
DUBLIN was a city of grinding poverty, mass unemployment and a never-ending queue of young people seeking a future abroad when the heroin epidemic hit with catastrophic force.Later, as the city transformed in the 1990s into a vibrant capital, ecstasy took...
29:47
2023-02-23
He was the shadowy Cartel lieutenant who was rumoured to be out to get UFC star Conor McGregor after a pub brawl at the height of the Kinahan and Hutch feud.But convicted drug dealer Graham ‘The Wig’ Whelan was this week welcomed into McGregor’s pub...
35:03
2023-02-22
HE was a terrifying gangland mob boss who ran his empire from a gated compound in County Meath, where he is alleged to have held slaves and forced them to do his bidding.Amongst a litany of terrible crimes, he is suspected of murdering a young man and his...
49:37
2023-02-21
BRITISH drug baron Robert Dawes became known as the pathfinder for a generation of criminals, including the Kinahan Cartel, when he was one of the first to make Dubai his home and the headquarters of his trans-global empire.Ancient money transfer systems,...
22:01:38
2023-02-18
RAIDS on the homes of notorious crime brothers, the discovery of a cocaine mixing factory and the seizure of a home and equestrian facility owned by a Cartel odd bod - welcome to Crime World.Today Nicola Tallant is chatting with Niall Donald and Eamon Dil...
33:51
2023-02-16
He's the Colombian narco who rose from humble origins to become the biggest wholesaler of cocaine in the world. Dairo Antonio Usuga, better known by his nickname, Otoniel, used torture and murder to rise to the top of the feared Gulf Clan Cartel, but he c...
44:27
2023-02-15
VICTIMS of crime can often feel forgotten in the process of justice, but what benefits are there to bring them together with an offender?Nicola Tallant talks with Dr Ian Marder from Maynooth University about restorative justice and it’s meaning for the ...
39:44
2023-02-13
When Gilbert King was asked by a Judge to look into a case of wrongful conviction he was shocked by the request and intrigued by the story.Michelle Scholfield was murdered in 1987, and her husband Leo, who protests his innocence, has remained behind bars ...
22:02:59
2023-02-11
Organised crime is now posing as big a threat to countries in the EU as terrorism a commissioner warned this week.And as criminals including Irish Godfather George 'the Penguin' Mitchell are left reeling after another major encrypted phone hack it seems l...
38:06
2023-02-10
He is Ireland’s most wily Godfather of Crime - a criminal so slippery he has managed to evade the law for decades while rising to the very top of Europe’s underworld.But has a phone been the undoing of George ‘The Penguin’ MItchell, or will he wad...
29:19
2023-02-09
He’s the Kinahan fixer who decked out his house with Plasma screens and bullet-resistant glass, but now Brian Mahony has gone and the keys of his palace are with the Criminal Assets Bureau.After climbing the career ladder in the mob, Mahony has now give...
21:59
2023-02-08
She is the self-declared Queen of Canada whose followers drive in giant motor homes through towns and sleepy villages spreading her word.Filipina Romana Didulo is a QAnon influencer with a little known past that has convinced tens of thousands of Canadian...
26:10
2023-02-07
THE death of a 14-year-old boy in the Northern Ireland seaside town of Portrush has long been a mystery, and has posed a myriad of painful questions for his family.Ryan Quinn suffered a horrendous end when he got stuck in a cattle grid on a dark January n...
54:13
2023-02-04
THEY are the crime gang who took control of Canada's lucrative cocaine trade while proudly displaying their Irish roots.The West End mob began their life as a prolific bank heist crew who traded on their status as outsiders in French speaking Montreal.But...
37:06
2023-02-02
THE murder of Robbie Lawlor in a Belfast housing estate continues to be the subject of a major police inquiry, with the PSNI and prosecutors insisting they have no interest in a suspected Dundon hit team named and identified during a recent bail hearing.T...
42:32
2023-01-31
Paul Crosby and Gerard Cruise had to listen to the tragic victim impact statement of Elizabeth Mulready, mum of murdered teen Keane Mulready-Woods, as she told a court this week how inconceivable it was that the sadistic minds of those who killed her chil...
45:49
2023-01-28
SEVEN years ago this week journalist Alan Sherry was sent on a news assignment like no other - and on an otherwise ordinary Friday, he found himself in the middle of the Regency Hotel gun attack.Today, Alan gives Nicola Tallant and Niall Donald an eyewitn...
42:32
2023-01-28
Paul Crosby and Gerard Cruise had to listen to the tragic victim impact statement of Elizabeth Mulready, mum of murdered teen Keane Mulready-Woods, as she told a court this week how inconceivable it was that the sadistic minds of those who killed her chil...
22:07:57
2023-01-26
AFTER 54 days at the Special Criminal Court the Regency murder trial came to an end with a verdict promised by April 17.Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch will remain in custody as three Judges retire to consider the case against him for murder, while co-accused Jaso...
43:18
2023-01-25
THE case for and against Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch closed today with the prosecution and defence addressing the court for a final time.The State have concluded that The Monk was one of two fake gunmen who shot David Byrne, while his side say he is an innocen...
31:42
2023-01-24
LAWYERS at the Regency trial will enter the final stretch tomorrow when the closing speeches to the three-judge panel at the Special Criminal Court get underway.Just one of the three accused, Jason Bonney, has produced defence witnesses, whose testimony p...
43:15
2023-01-24
HE was the notorious Cosa Nostra boss who lived in hiding for 30 years and who was responsible for terrorist atrocities against Italy. Matteo Messina Denaro was amongst a group of violent mafia bosses who hit back at Italian magistrates, their families an...
22:03:54
2023-01-21
CELTIC tiger businessman Marcus Sweeney once appeared to be the man who had everything - successful investment interests, a fast car and Ireland's most-beautiful model on his arm.But this week, his final facade of respectability fell when a Judge describe...
25:47
2023-01-19
HE was an A-list star of the criminal underworld, a gangster so wily that he travelled the world amassing a £100million fortune and died not from a bullet, but from his love of a sun-kissed tan.Dubbed 'The Pimpernel' for his ability to evade the law, Mic...
22:28
2023-01-18
A SHOCKING murder in Lurgan, Co Armagh leaves a pregnant woman dead, a family devastated and a community in fear of a killer on the loose.So, what happened in the home of Natalie McNally just days before Christmas when she was stabbed to death despite bei...
25:53
2023-01-17
HE was an A-list star of the criminal underworld, a gangster so wily that he travelled the world amassing a £100million fortune and died not from a bullet, but from his love of a sun-kissed tan.Dubbed 'The Pimpernel' for his ability to evade the law, Mic...
23:30
2023-01-14
HE was an A-list star of the criminal underworld, a gangster so wily that he travelled the world amassing a £100million fortune and died not from a bullet, but from his love of a sun-kissed tan.Dubbed 'The Pimpernel' for his ability to evade the law, Mic...
55:51
2023-01-12
BRIAN Rattigan has re-emerged as a significant crime figure following his release from Portlaoise Prison last year.The 42-year-old who led one side of the Crumlin-Drimnagh feud while still only a teenager has come of age behind bars, where he served 17 ye...
17:24
2023-01-11
A JAILHOUSE confession by an inmate claiming that he was the Regency shooter - not Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch - was described as a ‘curious development’ in the murder trial by lawyers for the State who said they had disclosed a document to the defence...
29:54
2023-01-11
ONE was a high-flying 22-year-old career girl whose father was a multi-millionaire, the other a recently-divorced mother of four who was a popular social worker caring for underprivileged kids.Erin Gilmour and Susan Tice suffered terrible deaths just mont...
56:24
2023-01-09
He's the world heavyweight boxing champ who has just been refused entry to the US as a result of sanctions levelled against the Kinahan Organised Crime Group.So, just what are Tyson Fury's links to mob boss Daniel Kinahan and how far back does the relatio...
48:00
2023-01-07
THE trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch will resume this week after a lengthy Christmas break - before the three judges at the Special Criminal Court retire to consider their verdict.Today, Nicola Tallant talks with Niall Donald about the key pieces of eviden...
39:29
2023-01-06
His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area known as the vanishing triangle.But where is Larry Murphy now and why is he a suspect in the murder of teenager Deirdre Jacob and the mystery disappearance...
52:53
2023-01-05
His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area known as the vanishing triangle.But where is Larry Murphy now and why is he a suspect in the murder of teenager Deirdre Jacob and the mystery disappearance...
29:10
2023-01-04
His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area known as the vanishing triangle.But where is Larry Murphy now and why is he a suspect in the murder of teenager Deirdre Jacob and the mystery disappearance...
24:31
2023-01-03
When drug dealer James Whelan was gunned down in Finglas, north Dublin, two months ago gardai braced themselves for an explosion of violence and tit-for-tat attacks.In recent weeks, the home of Whelan’s mother, Sonya, has been firebombed amidst 70 viole...
50:26
2022-12-31
His was a bizarre and macabre death which led to more questions than answers.Since the body of British spy Gareth Williams was found padlocked inside a sports bag in his flat in London, his death remains a mystery.But now journalist Jonathan Maitland and ...
50:38
2022-12-29
WHO says you can’t solve crime in your spare time? Elderly armchair detectives with a penchant for puzzles are the inspiration for Richard Osman’s chart-topping 'Thursday Murder Club' novellas, but far from his pages of perfect prose there are groups ...
37:58
2022-12-27
CHESHIRE, England 1996, Howard Ainsworth violently bludgeoned his wife to death with a hammer before taking his own life. Three years later in the same town, Donald Ward beat his wife to death with a ceramic hot water bottle before using the shards of gla...
34:20
2022-12-25
When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first target. A known drug dealer and with a string of convictions, Bomber was then running a lucrative business alo...
32:17
2022-12-24
When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first target. A known drug dealer and with a string of convictions, Bomber was then running a lucrative business alo...
25:36
2022-12-23
When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first target. A known drug dealer and with a string of convictions, Bomber was then running a lucrative business alo...
Episode 214: Jonathan Dowdall: I didn't suggest getting IRA to carry out hits on Kinahan mob (Day 7)
44:04
2022-12-20
DAY seven of the cross examination of Jonathan Dowdall came to its conclusion, as it was put to him that he had a role in a botched gun attack on the Kinahan mob at the Red Cow Hotel months before the Regency, and that he was trading bombs for protection ...
35:51
2022-12-19
Jonathan Dowdall’s evidence to the Special Criminal Court is now centred on his own 10-hours of bugged conversation in a car with Gerry Hutch.Dowdall is flagging in the witness box after six gruelling days under cross examination, yet, he still manages ...
29:20
2022-12-19
THE takedown of Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh can be directly linked to a decrease in the gangland murder rate in Ireland, the country's most-senior officer fighting organised crime has said.In a documentary to be shown on Virgin Media on Wednesday night, Dete...
46:05
2022-12-16
THE Special Criminal Court watched two faces of State witness Jonathan Dowdall during his fifth day under cross examination, as tapes of his arrest were played and he was asked to comment on the lies he told gardai back in 2016.The complexity of Dowdall's...
42:25
2022-12-15
Jonathan Dowdall watched from the witness box at the Special Criminal Court at videos of his arrest from 2016 on firearms offences, where he told gardai that Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch never told him anything about the Regency Hotel.Dowdall was also played t...
59:12
2022-12-14
Jonathan Dowdall said he wanted to make stories more "beefy" for Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch and was only trying to impress him with tales of bomb making, ordering a shootout at his Uncle Jimmy's home and pointing out possible kidnap opportunities on their doo...
Episode 208: 'Patsy's sons started Hutch-Kinahan feud', Jonathan Dowdall tells Regency trial (Day 2)
54:13
2022-12-13
Jonathan Dowdall told the Special Criminal Court that Patsy Hutch’s sons, Gary and Patrick Junior, started the Kinahan-Hutch feud when they attempted to steal €4.6 million in cash from the home of Daniel Kinahan in Spain.The pair had planned, he claim...
33:43
2022-12-12
Jonathan Dowdall finally stepped into the witness box on day 30 of the Regency Hotel trial, where Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch stands accused of murdering David Byrne.In evidence, he sensationally claimed that Cartel boss Daniel Kinahan "personally shot Patrick...
34:11
2022-12-10
STATE Witness Jonathan Dowdall will appear in the Special Criminal Court on Monday, but before he gives evidence a senior Garda officer from the Crime and Security Unit will tell him that his performance in the box won’t necessarily secure him a place o...
25:25
2022-12-09
FORMER Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall has agreed to give evidence against Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch at the Special Criminal Court - but a Judge has demanded to know his status on the Witness Protection Programme.Justice Tara Burns, who is presiding ov...
38:19
2022-12-08
STATE witness Jonathan Dowdall could be delayed in giving his evidence at the Regency Hotel murder trial as defence lawyers continue to argue his permission to take the stand.Complex cross-examination of gardai involved in the investigation has revealed h...
27:01
2022-12-07
THREE gangland shootings in one night. One dead drug dealer, a hitman on the run and a feuding mob baying for revenge.Nicola Tallant talks with Irish Independent Crime Correspondent Ken Foy about the violence that has erupted in gangland and three separat...
24:30
2022-12-07
THE conviction of gangland hit-men Robert ‘Roo’ Redmond and his sidekick Bernard Fogarty marks the end of the short and dangerous careers of Dublin’s one-time, most-feared assassins.This week, as the pair settle in to a life sentence behind bars, Ni...
49:07
2022-12-06
Crime World 'boss' Nicola Tallant hosts this special, live edition of The Dingle Whiskey Movie Club from a packed Sugar Club in Dublin.Over the past five weeks our expert panels have rated and reviewed some of the most famous mob movies ever to grace the ...
24:32
2022-12-03
A three-man assassination squad scouted out Irish crime boss Robbie Lawlor’s movements before carrying out his contract killing, a Belfast court has heard.The three formed a cell intercepted by police following the shooting, but were then released and a...
25:54
2022-12-01
THE judges at the Special Criminal Court are set to rule on the admissibility of evidence relating to 10 hours of conversation between murder accused Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch and ex-Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall, captured by a garda bugging device o...
34:00
2022-11-29
THE arrest of a Balkan mob boss in a massive Europol co-ordinated operation against the so called 'Super Cartel' leaves just one man standing from the leadership of the gang that controlled a massive 30 per cent of Europe’s cocaine market.Edin Gacanin o...
24:14
2022-11-28
FOR Gerry Hutch the stakes couldn't be higher at the Special Criminal Court, where he stands accused of murder - a crime that goes with a mandatory life sentence.Each day, he faces the weight of the prosecution case compiled by an army of gardai who have ...
59:07
2022-11-26
It was an unforgiveable crime - to murder someone and refuse to give up their body. And it became the ultimate terror threat of the IRA: “We will disappear you and no one will ever know.”Those tragic secrets lay buried for many years but the truth al...
40:34
2022-11-25
The final hour of bugged conversations between Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch and Jonathan Dowdall were played to the Special Criminal Court as the prosecution and defence now embark on their arguments about the admissibility of the evidence.Nicola Tallant ta...
43:59
2022-11-24
WELCOME to the Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - a Crime World special where we will be discussing our favourite mobster movies with special guests.Each week for the next five, we will choose two movies from our own Top 10 to review, to rate and to remember.But...
35:40
2022-11-23
GERRY 'The Monk' Hutch hated what organised crime had become by the time, the State say, he was headed North in a jeep with Jonathan Dowdall to facilitate the return of the AK47s used in the Regency Hotel attack.It was March 2016, his brother 'Neddy' was ...
33:34
2022-11-22
CONVERSATIONS between Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch and State Witness Jonathan Dowdall were played to the Special Criminal Court today in extraordinary evidence the admissibility of which is still being disputed.In the bugged surveillance, the pair talked about ...
20:37
2022-11-21
NOTORIOUS mobster Jeffrey Mitchell was found dead in a Dublin hostel after a suspected heroin overdose.The 49-year-old from Crumlin was the most prolific heroin dealer in Dublin in the late 1990s and 2000s, supplying both the Westies gang and the mob that...
42:40
2022-11-19
WELCOME to the Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - a Crime World special where we will be discussing our favourite mobster movies with special guests.Each week for the next five, we will choose two movies from our own Top 10 to review, to rate and to remember.But...
35:33
2022-11-16
A SENIOR officer from the Garda National Surveillance Unit ordered the destruction of records from a tracker device used on a jeep which, the State claim, Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch and Jonathan Dowdall used to travel to the North before the Regency AK47...
37:58
2022-11-16
'Dapper Don' Christy Kinahan was planning an African escape with his partner Nessy Yildirim to Harare in Zimbabwe where he hoped to settle with his family while taking control of one of the world’s key cocaine shipping routes.Reporters from the Internat...
Episode 187: The north inner city neighbourhood which the State say was used by the Regency Hit team
22:27
2022-11-14
It’s the north inner city neighbourhood which the State say was used by the Regency Hit team to gather before they headed to the north Dublin hotel.The Buckingham street area has long been the heartland of the Hutch clan and indeed murder accused Gerry ...
36:00
2022-11-12
Welcome to the Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - a Crime World special where we will be discussing our favourite gangster films with special guests.Each week for the next five we will choose two movies from our own top ten to review, to rate and to remember.But...
36:53
2022-11-11
Gerry The Monk Hutch has vigorously defended his 'innocence and reputation' at the Special Criminal Court where he is on trial for the murder of David Byrne.In advance of opinion evidence which was given to the court by Detective Superintendent David Gall...
40:55
2022-11-10
A survivor of the Cold War and of the notorious Russian Gulags, Imre Arakas was an international hitman who washed up on our shores like a character dreamed up in a work of fiction.His paymaster for this trip was Daniel Kinahan, the son of Christy Kinahan...
36:27
2022-11-10
He looks a far cry from the international legend first arrested in Ireland in April 2017 on a trip to murder Kinahan cartel target James ‘Mago’ Gately.Gone are the chiselled good looks of the suave International hitman for hire and when Imre Arakas ap...
33:55
2022-11-08
The fear that surrounded the aftermath of the Regency Hotel attack for those who had been linked to the murder of David Byrne has been laid bare at the Special Criminal Court this week.Suspects Jason Bonney and Paul Murphy are both accused of providing th...
24:19
2022-11-07
THE trial of Stephen Silver for the murder of Detective Garda Colm Horkan is continuing at the Central Criminal Court where the motorbike mechanic has taken the stand to give evidence in his own defence.Silver has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Garda...
52:43
2022-11-05
It’s been a place of refuge for countless mega-rich European drug traffickers who have beaten a golden path to the luxury Gulf state of Dubai over the past 10 years.And when a super cartel of the biggest cocaine traffickers sat down to do business at Da...
29:38
2022-11-04
THE trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch for the murder of Kinahan Cartel lieutenant David Byrne has focused on events that took place in the weeks following the Regency Hotel attack and the subsequent covert Garda operations involving the National Surveillanc...
42:30
2022-11-03
WELCOME to the Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - a Crime World special where we will be discussing our favourite mobster movies with special guests.Each week for the next five, we will choose two movies from our own Top 10 to review, to rate and to remember.But...
33:05
2022-10-31
Witch, devil worshipper and Ireland’s first serial killer are just some of the titles that have been bestowed on Darkey Kelly over the years. Born in the 1700s as Dorcus, she ran a brothel on Fishamble Street in Dublin’s city centre.And while not much...
22:01:11
2022-10-29
WELCOME to the Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - a Crime World special where we will be discussing our favourite mobster movies with special guests.Each week for the next five, we will choose two movies from our own Top 10 to review, to rate and to remember.But...
23:05
2022-10-27
Twenty-seven members of the Garda’s National Surveillance Unit had an operation in place on the day the State say Shane Rowan drove to Dublin to collect the AK47s used in the Regency Hotel attack.Now, the Special Criminal Court will rule on whether or n...
25:46
2022-10-26
A trial at the Central Criminal Court has been hearing evidence of events surrounding the death of a Detective Garda who was shot dead with his own weapon after responding to a call.Motorbike mechanic Stephen Silver has denied murdering Detective Colm Hor...
40:30
2022-10-25
Suggestions of collusion between security forces and loyalist paramilitaries has long been denied when it comes to Northern Ireland’s Troubles, but it seems that the passage of time has a way of unearthing deeply-hidden secrets.Nicola Tallant talks with...
40:26
2022-10-22
A few seconds of CCTV footage showing six men running towards what the State says was a getaway car sparked gasps from the gallery at the Special Criminal Court, where Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch stands trial for murder.The footage, captured at St Vincent's GA...
38:50
2022-10-20
THE trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch for the murder of David Byrne has seen footage of Regency Hotel gunman Kevin 'Flat Cap' Murray enjoying a relaxed pint of Guinness the night before his image would cement his reputation in gangland history.Murray, who w...
Episode 171: George 'The Penguin' Mitchell, the underworld bagman and the mystery godfather of crime
31:28
2022-10-20
Underworld banker Patrick Lawlor is beginning a jail term after a court heard he was caught with drug money belonging to a 'trans-global organisation'.The 56-year-old former builder claims he had fallen on hard times before he agreed to mind and move mone...
37:21
2022-10-18
GERRY 'The Monk' Hutch defiantly pleaded not guilty today as he stood accused of the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in February 2016 - the killing that sparked Ireland's bloodiest gangland feud.The trial kicked-off shortly after 11am as the St...
25:01
2022-10-17
Jonathan Dowdall and his father Patrick were given two weeks to prepare for custodial sentences yesterday after a court heard they were to be handed over to Portlaoise Prison authorities by An Garda Siochana.Patrick will serve less than one year in prison...
45:37
2022-10-15
The life of an undercover operative embedded deep in the world of drugs gangs and money launderers is far from ordinary. And it's rare we get an insight into the skills and personality traits required in such a high-risk situation.But, in his new book 'Th...
58:34
2022-10-13
THE secretive Witness Protection Programme has been thrust into the spotlight with the decision of Jonathan Dowdall to turn State witness against his former neighbour and friend Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch.But what is the Programme and when did it start? ...
Episode 166: Just what evidence will Jonathan Dowdall reveal in the trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch?
30:08
2022-10-12
The trial of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch looks set to go ahead next week despite new witness statements and the dramatic turn around of his former co- accused Jonathan Dowdall.The Special Criminal Court has been told that the trial is ‘all systems go’ ...
41:51
2022-10-11
It took two gunmen just 21 seconds to murder drug dealer Sean Fox in a packed Belfast bar in an assassination which was meticulously planned, calm and ruthless.Captured on CCTV before and after the Sunday afternoon killing, the assassins wore distinctive ...
22:30
2022-10-08
IRISH gangster John Gilligan managed a smile for the cameras this week after appearing in a Spanish Court on drug charges.The trial of the 70-year-old mobster was put back until next April after his son Darren failed to show up in court, while Gilligan hi...
34:47
2022-10-06
The killing of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool on August 22 has left Merseyside's underworld reeling from a major crackdown on organised crime.The little girl, who was shot when her mother opened the door of their home after hearing commoti...
29:49
2022-10-05
A former Garda Superintendent has been jailed for six-and-a-half years after he was caught with more than €250,000 worth of cannabis.But the investigation into John ‘Spud’ Murphy began because of his suspected links to the Hutch Organised crime grou...
54:55
2022-10-03
The trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch for the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel has been put back for a few weeks after dramatic developments in the Special Criminal Court.Hutch stepped into the dock hours after the court heard his neighbour and li...
45:12
2022-09-30
Trainee journalists often have to find their feet in a dog-eat-dog world, where you are only as good as your last byline.And many of those who have been landed onto the crime beat have literally had to learn on their feet in the most bizarre circumstances...
32:08
2022-09-30
The Kinahan organisation has been financially pulverised after a raid on properties connected to money launderer Johnny Morrissey uncovered what police believe to be the mob’s internal accounts, including pay roll, lists of assets and names of debtors ...
21:10
2022-09-29
A wider investigation into how the State believe Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch directed a criminal gang and corrupted a retired police officer is on-going outside the Regency Hotel trial, which is due to get underway next week.Hutch was arrested at Wheatfiel...
22:19
2022-09-28
Former Sinn Fein Councillor Jonathan Dowdall and his father Patrick have pleaded guilty today to their roles in the Regency Hotel shooting of David Byrne.The pleas come days before Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch goes on trial for murder in the Special Criminal Co...
20:42
2022-09-27
Murder victim Tony Dempsey’s end is as grim as a society could ever imagine. For 10 days his body lay decomposing in a Dublin flat while drug users came and went and neighbours complained about the smell.Gardai believe the 28-year-old was killed by some...
31:16
2022-09-24
The Ploughing Championships are an annual highlight in the calendar for those living in rural Ireland who work the land and who don their wellies for the biggest outdoor get-together in Europe.This week, Crime World travelled to the event to discuss one o...
28:31
2022-09-22
He is Ireland’s most notorious rapist whose first attack sparked the controversial 'C Case' which saw the State pitched against the parents of his 13-year-old victim, who the courts ruled could travel to the UK for an abortion such was the suicide risk....
44:15
2022-09-20
BANK robber and drug dealer Kevin 'Maxi' McAlorum had to dodge plenty of enemies during his long criminal career as Belfast’s most-notorious gangster.But in the end it was illness that got him, and he was laid to rest in true gangland style in a horse-d...
22:14:40
2022-09-17
HE is New York’s most notorious Russian mobster, who made and lost a fortune from heroin trafficking, tax fraud and diamond smuggling.A gulag survivor hardened by the harsh punishments of the Soviet Union, Boris Biba Nayfeld became a gang enforcer and l...
26:50
2022-09-15
FLASH Johnny Morrissey became the first of the Kinahan 'SEVEN' to be arrested this week when Spanish police swooped on him for laundering a phenomenal €350,000 a day for the mob.The feared enforcer, sanctioned by U.S. authorities along with the top comm...
28:01
2022-09-13
It was a story that read like the start of a true crime bestseller – a teenage girl is found wandering on Dublin’s O’Connell Street, a team of experts are brought together to discover who she is and pencil drawings depict a cruel sex trafficking rin...
50:17
2022-09-10
Automatic weapons sold legally in the US are flowing over the border into Mexico to arm narco terrorists who control the drug supply that floods back.Deadly drug cartels are using 50-calibre rifles - used to rip through armoured vehicles - against police ...
34:22
2022-09-08
The last suspect in a horrific stabbing spree that killed 10 and wounded 18 in western Canada is dead following his capture, and police hope the stunning end to a gripping hunt that stretched into a fourth day will bring some peace to victims' families.In...
37:12
2022-09-06
It’s a life alien to many but for prisoners the daily grind of jail time is a heady mix of boredom, survival and opportunism.Smuggled contraband brings power, drugs and alcohol are a way to escape the four walls and, for many staff and workers, are seen...
50:24
2022-09-03
It’s the white gold that has turned street dealers into billionaires and corrupted politicians, police and even the judiciary with its promises of wealth beyond dreams.Cocaine starts out life as a leaf on a tree in the jungles of south and central Ameri...
36:20
2022-09-01
Cocaine cowboy Patrick Irwin is being hunted after he assaulted a lawyer in a midlands town and stole his Porsche car from outside a bar. The convicted criminal has already served time for assaulting a Garda who he viciously punched during a search of his...
54:26
2022-08-31
What is it that fascinates us about murder and that makes us want to know how the minds of killers work. Are we trying to protect ourselves in a seemingly dark and dangerous world or do we have a morbid fascination with death.Today I’m talking to Crimin...
45:32
2022-08-27
He's one of the most-notorious serial killers in American history and the inspiration for numerous slasher movies.'Pogo the clown' by day and mass murderer by night, when John Wayne Gacy first killed a man at his Chicago ranch house after sex, he soon rea...
30:16
2022-08-25
COLIN Howell and Hazel Stewart’s forbidden love drove them to commit the near-perfect crime.To onlookers they were the epitome of respectability – he the successful dentist with a flourishing practice that afforded him a life of luxury, she the glamou...
27:24
2022-08-23
COLIN Howell and Hazel Stewart’s forbidden love drove them to commit the near-perfect crime.To onlookers they were the epitome of respectability – he the successful dentist with a flourishing practice that afforded him a life of luxury, she the glamou...
29:03
2022-08-20
COLIN Howell and Hazel Stewart’s forbidden love drove them to commit the near-perfect crime.To onlookers they were the epitome of respectability – he the successful dentist with a flourishing practice that afforded him a life of luxury, she the glamou...
25:58
2022-08-18
AN Indian woman and her two children strangled with ligatures in their Dublin home. An abusive husband who ended his own life before he could face trial. And a web of lies that attempted to blacken the name of a loving mother.Nicola Tallant chats with wit...
22:01:42
2022-08-16
IT'S a mystery that spanned decades, full of fake identities, murders, and kidnappings.In April 1990, when Tonya Hughes was killed after a hit-and-run incident in Oklahoma City, the FBI revealed that her so-called husband, Clarence Hughes, was actually he...
47:00
2022-08-13
HIS career has seen him head up investigations into terrorism, corruption, human trafficking, drugs and homicide.The one-time head of Organised Crime for the PSNI in Northern Ireland and Deputy Director at the National Crime Agency in the UK, Roy McComb h...
31:27
2022-08-11
Disgraced former garda Paul Moody lost his badge and his image as a womanising charmer when he pleaded guilty to coercive control against his ex-partner.The shocking campaign of harassment, physical and mental abuse, as well as threats and vile messages t...
43:48
2022-08-09
Convicted child killer Robert Black was caught when a curious postman turned his head to look at the unfamiliar van as it passed on his street and in those seconds saw a child’s feet disappear into the back.The sliding-doors moment meant the end of the ...
25:16
2022-08-06
The murder of Robbie O’Connor behind the walls of Mountjoy Jail has been a shocking and rare killing of an inmate in the Irish Prison System.Lured to a cell by his attackers and fatally injured in a matter of seconds, his brutal death is a reminder of t...
25:09
2022-08-04
When journalist Hugh Jordan first exposed a Belfast taxi driver who’d offered his friend a job as a naked clearer he named him ‘Mucky Marty’.And 12 years on, he had no idea how apt the nickname would become when Martin Heaney pleaded guilty to contr...
18:56
2022-08-02
HE might appear to be just another drug dealer passing through the courts after he was nabbed with a consignment of cocaine.But the story of Patrick Casey tells more about the criminal underworld than most.A rising Dublin football and hurling star, his li...
40:38
2022-07-30
From a notorious robber who splurged his loot on properties and a six-week Florida holiday, to a gangland criminal whose mammy tried to help get back his cash in the attic, the targets of the Criminal Assets Bureau are wide and varied.Nicola Tallant talks...
38:01
2022-07-28
THROUGHOUT his life he was known as the greatest gangland player of all – a criminal who worked the system and always appeared to win.But now, Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch is behind bars and his latest bid to stop his trial for the murder of David Byrne a...
42:06
2022-07-26
THEY remain Ireland’s most notorious loyalist terrorists, but 'Mad Dog' Johnny Adair and his right-hand man Sam ‘Skelly’ McCrory had been enjoying a retirement of sorts in Scotland.Friends since childhood, they had embraced anarchy, fascism and late...
40:55
2022-07-23
A survivor of the Cold War and of the notorious Russian Gulags, Imre Arakas was an international hitman who washed up on our shores like a character dreamed up in a work of fiction.His paymaster for this trip was Daniel Kinahan, the son of Christy Kinahan...
27:45
2022-07-21
Some mothers would do anything for their sons - and Sophie Kokkinos proved her loyalty when she took part in the killing of a man found burning in a London Park.Drug dealer Loike Guei’s body was discovered by a cyclist at Mitcham Common in September 202...
33:07
2022-07-19
It was an explosion of violence that claimed five lives in a few months yet it is indicative of the new gangland where bullets do the talking.From the murder of 23-year-old Zach Parker outside a gym to the assassination of a 41 year old Iranian blasted to...
41:59
2022-07-16
THE US Sanctions on the Kinahan organised crime group and the $5million rewards for the capture of the 'Dapper Don', Christy Kinahan Snr and his criminal sons, Daniel and Christopher Jnr, has been the peak point in the fight by law enforcement against the...
38:20
2022-07-14
He has been described as one of New Zealand’s most wanted fugitives, accused of masterminding one of the country’s largest shipments of methamphetamine in history.Now, the Irishman at the centre of the 500kg seizure has been arrested while skiing in S...
37:37
2022-07-12
Ghislaine Maxwell was the queen of the London social scene and would later mix with New York’s elite, courting billionaires, presidents and celebrities.Her epic fall from grace has portrayed her as a victim of her paedophile lover Jeffrey Epstein - but ...
50:31
2022-07-09
It was a backpacking adventure that would become an unsolved cold case murder that has haunted Shenadoah National Park in Virginia since 1996, when hikers Lollie Winans and Julie Williams turned up dead in their tent.But now, writer and outdoor expert Kat...
40:49
2022-07-07
The Encrochat phonehack was described as a game changer for law enforcement in its fight against organised crime - and two years on the criminal cases are still flooding into the courts in the UK and Europe.This week, arrests were made on those described ...
23:32
2022-07-05
A third assassination attempt on the life of convicted drug dealer Gary ‘The Canary’ Carey along with rising tensions in a volatile Dublin feud are stretching the resources of An Garda Siochana.With 24-hour armed support around the young gangs in the ...
46:58
2022-07-02
THE water level at Lake Mead outside Las Vegas has been concerning environmentalists for years as the effects of global warming threatens water supply to several States, including Nevada and neighbouring New Mexico and Arizona.But, as the water levels dro...
31:40
2022-06-30
MEET the man convicted of murdering his 14-year-old ex-girlfriend — who now wants to move to Ireland.Dempsey Lewis, formally known as Dempsey Hawkins, was convicted of murdering Susan Jacobson in New York in 1976, when he was just 16-years-old. During t...
25:00
2022-06-28
MEET the man convicted of murdering his 14-year-old ex-girlfriend — who now wants to move to Ireland.Dempsey Lewis, formally known as Dempsey Hawkins, was convicted of murdering Susan Jacobson in New York in 1976, when he was just 16-years-old. During t...
38:44
2022-06-25
He is the bareknuckle boxer from a long line of champions - but it will a lifetime before he gets back to fighting.Joe Joyce Jnr said he was only defending himself and his home when he took a slash-hook to a young neighbour, who would later die from his i...
56:24
2022-06-23
He's the world heavyweight boxing champ who has just been refused entry to the US as a result of sanctions levelled against the Kinahan Organised Crime Group.So, just what are Tyson Fury's links to mob boss Daniel Kinahan and how far back does the relatio...
37:56
2022-06-21
He’s one of Ireland’s most sinister and twisted killers who groomed his vulnerable victim and gave her take a starring role in her own murder.In this two-part Crime World special, written by Niamh O'Connor, we look back on the gruesome details of Grah...
28:49
2022-06-18
He’s one of Ireland’s most sinister and twisted killers who groomed his vulnerable victim and gave her take a starring role in her own murder.In this two-part Crime World special, written by Niamh O'Connor, we look back on the gruesome details of Grah...
30:02
2022-06-16
IT'S a Mecca for true crime super fans, where detectives, lawyers and even podcasters become celebrities for a weekend and the public mix and mingle with faces and voices they know so well.Created in America, where the genre has become a major multi-milli...
32:01
2022-06-14
He is one of the most notorious killers in the history of the North's Troubles, and when he staged a single-handed attack on a Provisional IRA funeral at Milltown Cemetery in 1988 his face became infamous across the world.Today, Michael Stone is wheelchai...
58:18
2022-06-11
The trial for two men charged with the murder of celebrity Dutch journalist Peter R. De Vries has heard of the text messages sent between the hit team and an un-named overlord who ordered the shooting in broad daylight on an Amsterdam Street.In court, jou...
35:29
2022-06-09
Retired detective Paul Holes knows just what it is like to immerse himself in a murder mystery. It was his work on the infamous 'Golden State Killer' case which led to the 2018 arrest and conviction of Joseph James DeAngelo Jnr, the man responsible for at...
55:16
2022-06-07
They are the killers and rapists deemed so dangerous that they are serving life sentences behind bars.But what does life mean in Ireland, and while the sentence is mandatory in murder cases, how does a sex offender reach the maximum term lock-up?Nicola Ta...
22:00:41
2022-06-04
It is a story that reads like the plot from a Hollywood movie and punches right into the heart of one of the most secretive regimes in the world.Hackers from the so-called ‘Lazarus Group’ first shut down Sony Studios when it attempted to screen a movi...
48:36
2022-06-02
She is the former Irish soldier who, a court heard, enveloped herself in the black flag of IS.Now, Lisa Smith awaits her fate in the Special Criminal Court, which heard the details of her journey into the dark heart of Islamic terrorism.During her trial, ...
24:31
2022-05-30
When drug dealer James Whelan was gunned down in Finglas, north Dublin, two months ago gardai braced themselves for an explosion of violence and tit-for-tat attacks.In recent weeks, the home of Whelan’s mother, Sonya, has been firebombed amidst 70 viole...
34:20
2022-05-28
When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first target. A known drug dealer and with a string of convictions, Bomber was then running a lucrative business alo...
32:17
2022-05-26
When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first target. A known drug dealer and with a string of convictions, Bomber was then running a lucrative business alo...
25:36
2022-05-23
When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first target. A known drug dealer and with a string of convictions, Bomber was then running a lucrative business alo...
29:40
2022-05-20
Emer O'Loughlin (23) had her whole life ahead of her when she was brutally murdered in a mobile home in Galway in 2005. She had just finished a year-long trip across the world with her boyfriend Shane and they were living in caravan site while they saved ...
35:48
2022-05-18
Keeping the peace inside Ireland's prison system has never been easy - but the fall of the Kinahan cartel has made life behind bars more dangerous than ever.According to prison officials, there are currently a total of 166 inmates from 14 separate crimina...
36:31
2022-05-16
In 2010, Spanish police announced that they had dismantled the Irish Mafia by shutting down the Kinahan Organised Crime Group.Headed by Christopher Kinahan Snr and managed by his sons Daniel and Christopher Jnr the so-called ‘Cartel’ was estimated to ...
31:53
2022-05-13
Two gangsters have been convicted in the first murder plot trial involving EncroChat phones, a system described in court as ‘an Amazon for organised criminals’.Despite no DNA evidence, no fingerprints and no weapon, the court found that Paul Fontaine ...
34:48
2022-05-11
One month since US sanctions were levelled against the Kinahan Cartel and as the dust settles on the dramatic announcements, what exactly has changed for those named and shamed as targets?What exactly does it even mean to be sanctioned and who else is on ...
43:52
2022-05-09
FOR decades, the Troubles in Northern Ireland set the news agenda, engulfed the resources of crime fighting and left thousands of families traumatised.But there were other murders too, many of which journalist Allison Morris believes didn’t get the full...
23:47
2022-05-06
A Lithuanian gang who flew unwitting slaves into Ireland to sell heroin and then starved and beat them sounds like the plot from a TV crime drama – but that’s exactly what happened over the course of 15 years until Gardai, the PSNI and their Eastern E...
46:31
2022-05-04
For years flash Johnny Morrissey has been splashing his cash on the Costa del Crime, where his luxury villa is a monument to the Roman Emperor Nero.Larger than life, Morrissey thought he was untouchable - but now that he has been named as the Kinahan mafi...
55:35
2022-05-03
They are the wives and girlfriends of the first family of crime who have lived a lavish lifestyle built on the Kinahan’s billion-dollar drug business.So, what next for the WAGS of gangland, as the carefully-constructed money machine behind the Kinahan O...
51:14
2022-05-18
He is the Scottish politician who says football is contaminated with drug money and that the tentacles of the Kinahan organisation run deep into the heart of the Glasgow underworld.And Russell Findlay knows more than the regular politician about such issu...
42:19
2022-05-18
He was Crime World’s first guest, when the former Scotland Yard detective told us about two gangland murders, a missing fugitive and his quest to find the elusive Kevin Parle.Now, Peter Bleksley reveals the details of his ongoing hunt for Parle and how ...
48:02
2022-05-18
The 'Dead Zoo' is the name the famous Dublin ‘wits’ came up with for the Natural History Museum in the capital.The quirky Victorian-era institution is packed with stuffed exotic animals from around the world – a moose, a hippo, a giraffe, a rhinocer...
46:54
2022-05-18
THE American government has KO’d the Kinahan Cartel with a raft of sanctions that have caused chaos for the mob.But when did the name Kinahan start coming on the radar in the United States and was it the mob's brazen move into top-end boxing that sealed...
44:59
2022-04-21
A week after U.S. sanctions were levelled at the Kinahan mafia an incredible fallout continues, as many run for cover and deny relationships with the top tier.But at the heart of the countless stories and headlines about the Kinahan Organised Crime Group ...
40:24
2022-04-19
He is an evil and sadistic killer who lured his vulnerable victim into a dark world of BDSM and then murdered her as part of his ultimate sexual fantasy.Killer Graham Dwyer is just about the last convict anyone would like to see freed on a legal technical...
22:14:10
2022-04-16
AS a child Jason Wilson thought he had a regular dad, but by the time he was a teenager his 'Old Man' was well on the way to becoming one of the UK’s most wanted criminals.From his beginnings as a successful businessman, Tony Shipley, who later changed ...
36:39
2022-04-13
The antics of Daniel Kinahan and his insistence that he is an innocent boxing promoter wrongly accused of involvement in organised crime spectacularly backfired this week.In an extraordinary conference in Dublin, the Kinahan mob were sanctioned just like ...
31:03
2022-04-12
The murder of drug dealer James Whelan in Dublin marks the start of what gardai fear will be a long-running and murderous feud between two factions of what was once one gang.The intricacies of the fallout between the mob boss known as 'Mr Flashy' and his ...
29:38
2022-04-09
I’m in Knightsbridge outside the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, the epitome of London style and wealth, but I’m not here for oysters and champagne.Instead, I’m on a mission to walk the streets and the neighbourhoods of Belgravia and Chelsea, where the Rus...
36:04
2022-04-07
He is the former businessman whose reputation lies in tatters after the High Court heard he was given €4.5 million by crime bosses Daniel Kinahan and Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh to wash through his property empire.The court heard this week that Jim Mansfie...
39:18
2022-04-05
It was an horrific crime that many vowed would never happen again. When Baby 'P' or 17-month-old Peter Connelly died having sustained 50 horrifying injuries at the hands of his mother, Tracey Connelly, her lover Stephen Barker and his brother Jason Owen a...
36:48
2022-04-02
His end was swift, delivered in the cold confines of a courtroom where Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh was committed to 21 years in prison for his crimes.The mob boss who sat at the very top of the Kinahan organisation and who pumped guns and weapons into th...
39:29
2022-03-31
His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area known as the vanishing triangle.But where is Larry Murphy now and why is he a suspect in the murder of teenager Deirdre Jacob and the mystery disappearance...
52:53
2022-03-29
His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area known as the vanishing triangle.But where is Larry Murphy now and why is he a suspect in the murder of teenager Deirdre Jacob and the mystery disappearance...
29:10
2022-03-26
His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area known as the vanishing triangle.But where is Larry Murphy now and why is he a suspect in the murder of teenager Deirdre Jacob and the mystery disappearance...
22:20
2022-03-24
Anne Marie Pezzillo was a regular visitor to the Sunday World offices during her days living homeless on the streets of Dublin and suffering from addiction issues.Each time she spoke with journalist Niall Donald she promised him ‘the big one’ - but he...
31:49
2022-03-22
It’s one of the great success stories in Ireland’s fight against crime -and now a new documentary will bring viewers behind the scenes at the Criminal Assets Bureau.From the birth of the Bureau in 1996 and its first cases to its modern-day targets. in...
43:31
2022-03-19
It was an extraordinary series of events. A high-ranking Sinn Fein official is outed as an informer in the employ of M15 and the Special Branch of the PSNI.On the steps of Stormont, Denis Donaldson admits his role as a spy within the Republican ranks – ...
47:42
2022-03-17
A haunting border crossing from Ukraine. People just like us leaving behind everything they know and everyone they love. And an unpredictable dictator with his finger on the nuclear button.So what is it like to stand and witness this brutal history in the...
34:53
2022-03-15
Mob boss Daniel Kinahan’s much anticipated interview due out this week has been shelved due to legal issues at the Anything Goes Podcast with James English.While the nature of the legal problems are unknown, Kinahan has already been hit with new court p...
31:20
2022-03-12
He is the first person to be jailed in relation to the brutal murder of teenager Keane Mulready Woods.Yet, despite pleading guilty to cleaning up and removing evidence from the scene of the killing at his home in Drogheda, father-of-eight Gerard ‘Ged’...
37:55
2022-03-10
It’s a stark message to young people who believe that they are just having fun.But community worker Philip Jennings says that every recreational user of cannabis or cocaine has blood on their hands and his 'Think Before You Buy' initiative has been roll...
56:05
2022-03-08
Cartel chief Daniel Kinahan is posturing again, with press statements, pictures and propaganda from an army of boxers under his control.And now he is teeing up a ‘world exclusive’ interview with podcaster James English, whose popular YouTube show has ...
56:27
2022-03-05
They are the black-suited operatives whose role is to protect the President of the United States - and if Joe Biden’s plans to visit Ireland this summer come to pass they will be crawling around the highways and byways of the country to make safe his pa...
32:14
2022-03-03
A high-flying young record producer is gunned down outside his pricey London home after returning from a Christmas Eve celebration with his glamorous wife and two-year-old son.The victim, Flamur Beqiri, a brother of one of the stars of Real Housewives of ...
58:32
2022-03-01
A rugby legend capped for Ireland. A politician steeped in the beliefs of loyalism. A giant who claimed family values as his flag.But behind the mask Davy Tweed was a monster and sex offender who terrorised his family and left a legacy of pain for his dau...
29:18
2022-02-26
It was still bright on the evening of September 2, 2016 when a man walking his dogs made a gruesome discovery in Rahin Woods, close to Carbury in County Kildare.Using a stick, he had poked at the ground and the brambles where his dog 'Bobby' had circled, ...
43:58
2022-02-24
He was a loner and a misfit who lived with his parents until his early 30s but went on to become a serial killer who stalked his victims on dating apps and gay hook-up sites.But, Stephen Port was no cunning killer, and when he was tried for four murders i...
36:10
2022-02-22
It’s known as the city of dreams - where models, actors and artists seek fame and fortune in the shadow of the Hollywood Hills.But alongside the glitter and glamour of the California Dream is a very different Los Angeles, one with a sprawling homeless ...
52:16
2022-02-19
An 'ISIS bride' lured to the Caliphate in fear of the fires of hell, a glamorous former radical who escaped Syria and unshackled herself from her extremist past and counter terrorism FBI agents called in after the fall of Raqqa.It sounds like the plot fro...
33:35
2022-02-16
Innocent women flee their homes in fear of grenade attacks, a business shuts its doors terrorised by teenage thugs, while a community lives in fear of warring drug gangs brazenly attacking each other in broad daylight with hammers and wheel braces and dis...
32:17
2022-02-15
A shocking mass murder at a bookies office in Belfast, 30 years of unanswered questions for those left behind and now an Ombudsman's report that cites collusive behaviour and failings by police.At the heart of the Sean Graham bookmakers atrocity and seven...
34:04
2022-02-12
The brutal attack on bachelor farmer Thomas ‘Tom’ Niland in rural Sligo has struck fear into the elderly community across Ireland.In a worrying spate of attacks on our most vulnerable citizens, many pensioners living in rural areas no longer feel safe...
27:14
2022-02-10
Jim Mansfield Jnr was dealt his fate this week when Judges at the Special Criminal Court handed him down a two-year sentence, suspending the final six months, in a crushing blow for the former millionaire heir of Ireland’s once-wealthiest family.Despite...
35:48
2022-02-08
He was the New IRA 'fixer' with an unclear past, but despite some red flags, Dennis McFadden managed to infiltrate the terror group and win their trust, all the while reporting back to MI5.For two decades the Scottish spy worked and lived in Belfast and m...
22:04:19
2022-02-05
Garfield Beattie is a triple murderer who was part of the infamous Glennane Gang, a brutal mob made up of Ulster Loyalists, RUC police officers and British Soldiers who went on a killing spree of Catholics in Co. Armagh and Co. Tyrone at the beginning of ...
30:55
2022-02-03
He was the Irish king of the Costa until the Kinahan mob turned on him and forced the one-time drug lord into hiding for more than 10 years.But Peter ‘Fatso’ Mitchell is back behind bars after he showed up in the UK, working as a driver for a cocaine ...
31:37
2022-02-01
He was the first godfather of Irish crime, the man who unleashed heroin on Dublin’s impoverished housing estates and flat complexes. Larry Dunne found fame as the drug lord responsible for the destruction of entire communities, whose greed took parents ...
46:33
2022-01-29
Across the world, cannabis is being de-criminalised and in some countries legalised but with a higher potency and soaring prices, consumption of weed has become the main drug of concern amongst teenagers.Here, Nicola Tallant talks with consultant psychiat...
24:24
2022-01-27
The murder of another witness in the Marengo Trial, the shocking revelations that suspect Ridouan Taghi was plotting a navy-seal-type jailbreak and a dramatic security breach around an under-threat journalist - what will happen next in The Netherlands?In ...
40:37
2022-01-25
Nicola Tallant tells the story of 'Fat' Freddie Thompson, one of Ireland's most-feared mobsters.From his rise as a street fighter in Dublin to becoming the head of a gangland murder machine, we retrace the violent steps he took on his rise to power and ho...
47:26
2022-01-22
Nicola Tallant tells the story of 'Fat' Freddie Thompson, one of Ireland's most-feared mobsters.From his rise as a street fighter in Dublin to becoming the head of a gangland murder machine, we retrace the violent steps he took on his rise to power and ho...
40:11
2022-01-21
Former businessman Jimmy Mansfield Jnr went to jail this week, convicted of attempting to pervert the course of justice by directing that CCTV footage be destroyed.The conviction centres around the kidnap of one of his late father’s employees, Martin By...
31:01
2022-01-19
He was the playboy prince of the Celtic Tiger era and lived it up in a luxury mansion frequented by top models and socialites.But businessman Jim Mansfield Jnr is now doing porridge with common criminals after he was found guilty of perverting the course ...
35:49
2022-01-15
He’s the hitman for hire who claims to have turned his life around - and nowadays Alan Wilson says he is writing poetry and staying away from his former gang, the Kinahans, while behind bars.Just weeks ago, the sinister criminal begged a judge to be len...
23:29
2022-01-13
It was a brutal gangland murder that made headlines across the world. Now, two years on from the murder of 17-year-old Keane Mulready Woods, it seems an uneasy peace has descended on Drogheda.With two men facing trial this year for the teenager's murder, ...
21:33
2022-01-11
He is a well known Criminal Assets Bureau target who was once put on trial for a tiger kidnapping, but Dubliner Jonathan Gill has now launched a new venture as a conflict negotiator and says he can solve disputes in broken marriages, business upheavals an...
41:20
2022-01-08
In Northern Ireland’s troubled past there have been hundreds of atrocities and thousands of lives lost - but one 24-hour period stands out as the most brutal of all. Forty five years ago this week, unprecedented slaughter visited a small corner of south...
50:08
2022-01-06
Mary Turner Thomson’s world shattered when she discovered her husband Will was a bigamist, con man and convicted sex offender.Unbeknownst to her, this would be the start of a bold new chapter in her life, fighting to protect other women from his heartle...
26:51
2022-01-05
It’s been an unhappy New Year for former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell as she faces up to 65 years behind barsBut, as the dust settles on her sensational conviction for sex trafficking in a New York Court, the focus has moved to what will happen next.Nico...
57:51
2022-01-01
Detective Anthony Amore tracks down stolen art and follows clues all over the world hunting priceless masterpieces which have been snatched by thieves. Today, Amore talks to Nicola Tallant about one time heiress, Rose Dugdale, who gave up a charmed life t...
54:23
2021-12-31
John, Keith, Alan, Eric and Luke Wilson were once Ireland’s most feared gangland family who terrorised the underworld and threatened the pillars of the State.Bonded by blood, the five Wilsons operated as guns for hire as they honed their skills as killi...
33:30
2021-12-29
It’s a missing person’s case that has cast a dark shadow over a small town in County Mayo where the haunting face of Sandra Collins stares out from posters more than 20 years since she was last seen.However, Sandra has not been forgotten despite the p...
34:35
2021-12-25
The jury in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell has adjourned for the Christmas holidays with the fate of the infamous New York socialite hanging in the balance.Ms. Maxwell, who turns 60 on Christmas Day, has pleaded not guilty to her role in the recruiting an...
Crime World Extra: My life banged up next to IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in the H-Block (re-post)
46:26
2021-12-23
Forty years ago this month, 21-year-old Jake Mac Siacais cried in his H-Block cell as his friend Bobby Sands died on hunger strike.Jake had been in the next cell to the republican icon, and when Sands left the wing to go to the prison hospital, it was Jak...
50:21
2021-12-21
Drug war in Mexico – how the narcos and their violent sicarios are being armed by legally-sold weapons in the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
56:03
2021-12-18
It's been a year of takedowns and the end of the line for many. And while 2021 closes on a high note for gardai fighting organised crime, it has left many criminals counting their last days of freedom.Nicola Tallant is joined by Sunday World journalists N...
29:09
2021-12-17
It was the phone hack that rocked the underworld and led to thousands of arrests and record breaking seizures of drugs, guns and dirty money.Yet, Ireland has little to show from the massive Encrochat investigation despite being one of the country’s to r...
28:38
2021-12-15
So we did it – we got through our first year on Crime World and managed to bag the 'Podcast of the Year' award along the way.It’s been a whirlwind 12 months, covering the tales about criminals, drugs and the sins of the underworld.So, now, Nicola Tall...
40:48
2021-12-11
It was the trial that lifted a lid on sex and lust in rural Ireland and revealed the secrets of a small Tipperary village.When farmer Patrick Quirke received a life sentence for the murder of Bobby Ryan, a popular DJ known as Mr Moonlight, he was quick to...
27:06
2021-12-09
She was a fraudster who almost bankrupted the tight-knit company she worked for, and with the £1.9million she stole from Northern Mouldings Limited she lived a lifestyle akin to a Hollywood superstar.When Julie McBrien, also known as Julie Hogg, was even...
24:06
2021-12-07
The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell in New York is finally underway after years of allegations about her relationship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and claims that she helped him procure young girls for sex.It has been a sensational fall from grace for the d...
50:23
2021-12-04
They spent years in the prison system for a string of offences linked to their chronic addiction problems, but today James Leonard and Timmy Long are podcast sensations and their show 'The Two Norries' has been hailed for tackling issues of mental health,...
32:08
2021-12-02
New legislation which introduces the tagging of sex offenders will now deal with the complex issues of releasing rapists and child abusers back into the communities.But does the newly-passed Sex Offenders Amendment Bill go far enough when it comes to prot...
25:54
2021-11-30
Veteran criminal Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch has been given permission to take a High Court challenge against the jurisdiction of the Special Criminal Court to hear his trial for the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in Dublin five years ago.He cl...
48:29
2021-11-27
When killer Joe O’Reilly bludgeoned his wife Rachel to death at their home in the Naul, Co Dublin, in October 2004 he thought he’d get away with murder.But years after he was convicted to a life sentence for his horrific crime, nobody could have expec...
27:55
2021-11-25
It was planned as the Kinahan Mafia’s trophy kill, with only Daniel Kinahan and Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh's most trusted circle of lieutenants privy to the plans.But, in an incredible turn of events, the 2017 plot to assassinate Hutch target James ...
46:12
2021-11-23
Ireland’s mobile phone data retention systems are under the spotlight and European legal experts have warned they may have breached the law.Now, killer Graham Dwyer is eying up a favourable appeal to his conviction for the murder of Elaine O’Hara.But ...
44:15
2021-11-19
He was the one-time billionaire and the pride of his native Cavan, where a generation of workers shared the spoils of his success.Businessman Sean Quinn was said to have built an empire on a mountain but always remembered his humble beginnings and was at ...
36:03
2021-11-18
A vision for a new police force in Northern Ireland 20 years after Chris Patten’s ground-breaking report identified a need for a 50-50 recruitment policy for Catholics and Protestants has failed to live up to expectations.Last year, of the 193 new recru...
22:06:23
2021-11-16
He was a towering Ulster rugby star who won four caps for Ireland in the mid 1990s and went on to forge a political career as an ultra-conservative unionist.After his death on October 28 in a motorcycle crash in County Antrim, political pals and friends f...
54:31
2021-11-13
When Irish heiress Marianne ‘Mair’ Smyth walked in the door of Jonathan Walton’s LA apartment neither of them could have guessed what lay ahead.For reality TV maker Jonathan, Mair came across charming, successful and well connected and he was quickl...
38:26
2021-11-10
He was the violent enforcer of Slieve Rusheen who operated with impunity for more than eight years terrorising ‘traitors’ who turned on the mighty Sean Quinn.His death from a massive heart attack as UK cops raided his Derbyshire hideaway two years ago...
38:33
2021-11-09
A Kinahan mob prison party to celebrate the birthday of a dangerous criminal is held behind bars in an Irish jail.An inmate uses his smart phone to upload a video where suspected hitman Trevor Byrne jokes with a Limerick criminal about high powered weapon...
40:47
2021-11-06
It was the greatest social housing disaster in Ireland’s history - one which promised new beginnings for countless tenement families but instead became ground zero for the heroin epidemic.When the State ordered the demolition of Ballymun’s seven tower...
37:07
2021-11-03
He was the gangland fixer known as 'The Coach' and for decades he tried to play the criminal underworld, police and the media.Criminal John Traynor dreamed of wealth and women when he joined the ranks of Martin ‘The General’ Cahill's armed robbery gan...
18:26
2021-11-02
It was a sensational blow to organised crime - and when Australia’s Federal Police joined forces with the FBI to create a phone network to infiltrate drug gangs, the fallout shocked both police and politicians.An Aussie cartel with tentacles deep into t...
53:09
2021-10-30
He was the boy who never came home – the teenager whose innocent face has haunted generations of Irish parents.Now, the disappearance of schoolboy Philip Cairns 35 years ago is the subject of a new book which firmly turns the attention on a paedophile D...
31:53
2021-10-28
It’s been described as the biggest blow against the Colombian drug cartels since the famous takedown of Pablo Escobar in the 1990s.Seven years since he was declared an enemy of the state and the boss of the so-called Gulf Cartel, notorious kingpin Dario...
24:07
2021-10-26
He was the notorious drug dealer who introduced heroin to his hometown of Ballymena, County Antrim.And after a lifetime of staying one step ahead of the law 61-year-old Noel Johnston made a final and fatal mistake when he mistook PSNI officers for a hit s...
27:40
2021-10-23
A journalist shot dead on the street. A criminal lawyer assassinated on the doorstep of his Amsterdam home and the brother of a state witness gunned down as a reminder of the penalty for breaking the underworld's sacred code of 'Omerta'.Now, Narco terrori...
30:05
2021-10-21
He is due to face kidnap charges later this year in the UK and has been a central and violent figure in the Drogheda feud - but it seems gang boss Cornelius Price is unlikely to ever face up to his crimes.Price, whose gang are suspected of a number of mur...
29:12
2021-10-20
He is a gangland heavyweight serving time for drugs and weapon offences and was once named in court as the triggerman in the murder of mob boss Martin 'Marlo' Hyland.But inmate Johnny Mangan is on the run after escaping from the low security Loughan House...
31:00
2021-10-16
It’s been 20 years since Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan was murdered on a Lurgan pavement as he walked home from a pub with his wife Marie.Known affectionately as Marty by his colleagues in the Belfast newsroom and an adored dad of three, he w...
27:20
2021-10-15
Convicted drug dealer Graham ‘The Wig’ Whelan is facing jail after pleading guilty to a number of offences relating to his arrest at a luxury Dublin hotel, when he was caught with cash in his pocket and an expensive watch on his arm by undercover offi...
39:26
2021-10-14
They are the first people in Ireland to be convicted of human trafficking for a prostitution ring and now Alicia Edosa and Edith Enoghaghase are finding out for themselves what it feels like to be trapped after receiving jail terms of over five years.But ...
50:22
2021-10-09
A FORMER FBI agent working with the family of missing Annie McCarrick has said that a Spanish serial killer arrived in Dublin as a stowaway on a boat 48 hours before the American student vanished - but slipped the net once gardai were called.Kenneth Stran...
26:21
2021-10-07
It’s the 37-year murder mystery that has haunted Ireland and remains the biggest policing scandal in modern history.A dead baby washes up on a Kerry beach with 28 stab wounds and a fractured spine, a Garda murder squad is dispatched to find answers but ...
27:49
2021-10-06
It was a charity set up to respond to Dublin’s homeless crises and to provide food and shelter to the most vulnerable. But now the Inner City Helping Homeless (ICHH) group is in chaos with allegations of sexual assault and rape against founder Anthony F...
52:15
2021-10-02
The news reports from Afghanistan are becoming more concerning by the day as Taliban militants return to their own rule of law with barbaric punishments, revenge killings and the persecution of women and minorities.The images of the terrifying warlords wi...
30:02
2021-09-30
Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch is back in an Irish prison for the first time in nearly 40 years after he was flown on a military jet into Baldonnel Aerodrome from Spain on foot of an extradition warrant.His appearance in the Special Criminal Court, where he was c...
26:47
2021-09-29
It’s a murder mystery that has divided America, pitted armchair sleuths against seasoned detectives and turned a spotlight on how the media treats victims of crime.The case of 22-year-old tragic blogger Gabby Petito and her fiancé Brian Laundrie, who w...
23:24
2021-09-28
He has lost in his bid to halt extradition attempts in a Spanish court and now Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch must come home to Ireland and finally face the music.Six years since a hit team staged a dramatic assassination attempt on Daniel Kinahan and six mon...
42:55
2021-09-25
The tag ‘Bandit Country’ was long used for what was once described as lawless ‘South Armagh’.But times have changed and now the towns situated along the border region of Ireland want to put the dark days of the past behind them and be recognised a...
26:09
2021-09-24
A French court has convicted a gang of eight men including four members of the Rathkeale Rovers Organised Crime group for trafficking rhino horn and ivory between Europe and Asia.But while sentences have been handed down, the Irish traders remain at large...
24:33
2021-09-22
In life they formed a prolific burglary gang that terrorised the country and made use of the motorway system as a getaway route.Criminals Graham Taylor, Karl Freeman and Dean Maguire died together last July in a horror road crash when the car they were tr...
22:08:15
2021-09-18
He suffered a brutal death at the hands of his wife and her former FBI agent dad, but the path to justice for Jason Corbett’s family has been far from clear.Found guilty by a North Carolina court of second degree murder, Molly and Tom Martens were origi...
Crime World Extra: Terror on the streets as two of Ireland's most-feared inmates walk free from jail
30:51
2021-09-16
They are two of Ireland’s most-dangerous offenders but both have just walked free from jail and are now living amongst communities.Celyn Eadon stabbed his mother to death and racked up 15 unprovoked assaults while behind bar, where he was treated in the...
32:45
2021-09-14
It was once a city under siege where ruthless gangs and one notorious family ruled with fear and intimidation. But a massive crackdown on crime, followed by an injection of €300 million in regeneration funds restored Limerick’s reputation as a cosmopo...
47:28
2021-09-11
He’s the art detective who hunts stolen masterpieces and who re-unites works of art with their rightful owners years after they have been looted.From lost works by artists like Picasso or Warhol to flash designer watches worth more than €100,000, Chri...
30:40
2021-09-10
A UN report released earlier this summer estimates that thousands of ISIS fighters have poured into Afghanistan where Taliban rule may once again provide a breeding ground for extremism. Already a suicide bombing at Kabul airport has raised fears that the...
27:46
2021-09-08
The seizure of 20 tonnes of cocaine on board the MSC Gayane at the Packer Marine Terminal in Philadelphia two years ago remains the largest in US customs history.This month, the eight and final crew member from the boat was sentenced for his role in the o...
44:23
2021-09-03
State witness Joseph O’Callaghan gave up his name and his old life when he gave evidence against gangland killers Brian Kenny and Thomas Hinchon. Following their conviction for the murder of Jonathan O’Reilly, he was given a new identity by An Garda S...
29:44
2021-09-01
He once enjoyed a lifestyle fit for a Sultan in Dubai but now Daniel Kinahan is running scared in his desert bolthole as his €2 million per month mafia wage bill threatens to overwhelm him and turn his own against him.Cash flow problems, the arrest of h...
22:13:40
2021-08-28
For countless young men and women living with addiction each day is a chaotic tapestry of crime, drug taking and violence.The well-worn paths to prison and rehab often fail to change the course of their lives and instead lead them straight back to the com...
24:26
2021-08-25
Considered one of Italy’s most dangerous fugitives, suspected of being a boss of the Camorra mafia and the one-time owner of two stolen Van Gogh masterpieces, Raffaele Imperiale is now counting the cost of his life of crime.Arrested earlier this month i...
32:24
2021-08-21
Puppy farming has become a multi-million euro business, and thanks to the huge demand in the UK, Ireland has become a major player in the market.But much of the trade is based on deceit and maximising profit, which comes at the expense of the animals and ...
22:02
2021-08-17
His arrest is the latest chapter in the extraordinary saga of Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch, regarded as one of Ireland’s most wily criminals.In prison in Madrid following his dramatic arrest on the Costa Del Sol, the Dubliner appears to be finally losing his ...
40:30
2021-08-14
HE was the ‘geek’ who ended up in prison after becoming a college drug dealer - but now Niko Vorobyov has made it his mission to get to the heart of the global narcotics scene.Reformed dope dealer Niko’s journey takes him to Mexico, where he meets t...
46:26
2021-08-07
He’s 30 years covering tales of murder and once began his day being briefed on the nightly body count of New York city, where he knocked on doors and fronted-up killers on the tough daily beat.But tabloid man Brad Hunter says that despite covering hundr...
38:27
2021-07-31
It was once a clearly divided underworld where paramilitary groups ruled with fear in a strictly organised way. There were rules, sides and an unwritten code where everyone knew their place and the terrorists were king.But over the past few decades things...
31:16
2021-07-30
Killer Dave Mahon walked free from prison this week after serving five years for the manslaughter of his stepson, 23-year-old Dean Fitzpatrick, who he knifed to death in 2013.Just five years previous, Dean’s sister Amy went missing without a trace on Sp...
20:21
2021-07-28
It’s a time for celebration and a place to remember the values and morals which shape an individual’s journey through life. But sometimes funerals can be hijacked and turned into a display of wealth and power, which is totally at odds with the values ...
33:15
2021-07-24
It’s a missing-person’s case that has cast a dark shadow over a small town in County Mayo where the haunting face of Sandra Collins stares out from posters more than 20 years since she was last seen.However, Sandra has not been forgotten despite the p...
25:14
2021-07-23
He headed up one side of two notorious feuding gangs that claimed 15 lives in 10 years in Ireland’s first cocaine war.And even behind bars Brian Rattigan organised assassinations, drug deals and terrorised communities with his fearsome reputation.Now, a...
30:45
2021-07-22
A half tonne of cocaine disguised as charcoal, which landed in Rotterdam, was seized at the port after an intelligence-led operation headed up by Irish gardai.The drugs, worth more than €30 million, were destined for the Irish market where a generation ...
49:48
2021-07-17
It’s a tale made for the big screen – a Hollywood starlet threatening to expose an illicit love affair, a missing diary revealing a web of intrigue from a president to a mafia boss and secret police files that could hold the truth of one of the greate...
16:25
2021-07-16
Dutch crime reporter Peter R. De Vries died in hospital yesterday, a week after he was shot on a busy Amsterdam street in an attack which has drawn outrage across Europe. As his family and friends mourn his loss, police are focusing on the advisory role h...
27:39
2021-07-15
It’s just three years since a hitman attempted to murder gang boss Owen Maguire, leaving him paralysed and dividing a town’s underworld into two feuding sides intent on wiping each other out.Since then, six assassination attempts, four brutal murders ...
42:40
2021-07-10
It may seem like a simple solution to the war on drugs – legalise weed and cocaine, regulate the market and then tax the profits.This week, 100 youth workers in Ireland joined forces against prohibition and are calling for just that. But is such dramati...
12:13
2021-07-07
Politicians, police and media colleagues in The Netherlands have been horrified by the shooting of famous crime journalist Peter R. De Vries, who was gunned down in Amsterdam on Tuesday night.The well-known journalist has been working as an advisor to Nab...
20:01
2021-07-05
Mob boss Daniel Kinahan has been keeping his head down in Dubai since a BBC Panorama documentary catapulted him and his links to boxing into the spotlight last February.But now, a determined American lawyer has put his name in the headlines again and this...
47:59
2021-07-03
She was the teenage drug mule who became a household name and when she was jailed in Peru for attempting to smuggle 11 kilos of cocaine to Ibiza her fame was cemented.But since then, the story of Michaela McCollum and her sidekick Melissa Reid has seen ma...
30:15
2021-07-02
It’s the case that has baffled Northern Ireland - and on the one-year anniversary of the discovery of the body of tragic schoolboy Noah Donohue in a drain, it is clear that there are still more questions than answers.This week, a preliminary inquest int...
31:17
2021-07-01
His guilty plea has meant little evidence of Peadar Keating's role in a plot to kill will ever be heard.But behind the headlines lies one of the Kinahan mafia’s highest-ranking Irish executives and one of its most-sought-after targets.Nicola Tallant cha...
45:02
2021-06-26
It’s the most popular genre for book lovers, podcasters and even documentary makers, with a growing audience who love all things true crime.But what is it that intrigues us about violence, fear and gruesome death and why are women the biggest consumers ...
25:44
2021-06-25
Three residential properties, one city centre business premises and one million of stolen crypto currency isn’t bad for a day's work at the Criminal Assets Bureau.But that's just the start of the countless homes, monies, cars and designer goods that are...
23:29
2021-06-23
They were part of a plot to flood Ireland with heroin, but when the Turkish mafia formed an alliance with the gang known as 'The Family' things didn’t work out as planned.Last week, 57-year-old Kuldip Singh was jailed for his part in €1m heroin stash....
37:27
2021-06-19
He’s the oddball German drifter suspected of abducting and murdering Madeleine McCann in 2007 who has now been identified by Irish woman Hazel Behan as matching the attacker who raped her in a hotel room in Portugal three years previous.But as German pr...
25:49
2021-06-17
The murder of newly-married Michaela McAreavey on the honeymoon island of Mauritius is one of the most high-profile, unsolved cases in the world.Yet still, 10 years on, Mauritian authorities have failed to bring her killer, or killers, to justice. Followi...
24:13
2021-06-16
He was the unknown face in the crowd spotted by Garda officers as they poured over footage and images of mourners at the funeral of Regency Hotel murder victim David Byrne.Up until that point Declan Brady had got away with being an ordinary guy, foraging ...
28:39
2021-06-12
Just 24 hours before news broke of the ANOM phone hack, the newsroom of the New Zealand Herald got a tip-off that there was a raid on the properties of known members of organised biker gang 'the Comancheros'.Senior crime reporter Jared Savage began to rin...
28:46
2021-06-11
Hot on the heels of the Encrochat and Sky ECC takedowns, criminals are again counting the costs of their so called ‘bullet proof’ mobile phone systems.The busted Anom network, co-ordinated by the FBI and Australian law enforcement partners, has seen 8...
31:02
2021-06-10
It’s the Netherlands' trial of the century, with infamous underworld boss Ridouan Taghi in the dock along with 16 of his men who face accusations relating to six gangland murders.In a courtroom known as 'The Bunker', the most dangerous figures in Dutch ...
36:44
2021-06-05
‘Fat’ Andy Connors was part of a notorious burglary gang that terrorised Ireland for years, robbing elderly people in their homes and often using horrendous violence against them.He was shot dead in 2014 by an unknown gunman and in the aftermath of hi...
26:53
2021-06-02
The home of senior Kinahan lieutenant Liam Byrne has just been put on the on the market for just €400,000 after it was seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) .The dream property where Byrne (40) lived was once valued at around €1m with extensive r...
48:59
2021-05-29
CARTEL killer Freddie Thompson organised the murder of 'easy target' David ‘Daithi’ Douglas to bulk up the mob’s body count in Dublin and impress his bloodthirsty boss Daniel Kinahan.But it was 'Fat' Freddie's desperation to be accepted at the top t...
20:32
2021-05-26
The chaotic life of gangland thug Daniel Goulding came to an abrupt and dramatic finale when he walked quietly from his Blanchardstown home two hours after a crazy shootout with gardaí turned his neighbourhood into the wild west.Nicola Tallant chats with...
34:05
2021-05-24
Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh is facing a tonne of misery in the UK after a recent court appearance heard that he is to be sentenced in relation to an incredible 292 kilos of cocaine and 600-800 kilos of cannabis.According to Crown prosecutors, the tonne o...
46:22
2021-05-22
Forty years ago this month, 21-year-old Jake Mac Siacais cried in his H-Block cell as his friend Bobby Sands died on hunger strike.Jake had been in the next cell to the republican icon, and when Sands left the wing to go to the prison hospital, it was Jak...
34:52
2021-05-20
The shadowy 'Wizard Spider' gang behind the HSE hack - who are they and what has motivated them to attack our health service?Senior cyber security expert Rob Feeney talks ‘black hat’ hackers, the dark web and the threat of a cyber crime war. Hosted on...
52:49
2021-05-15
He is one of Europe's most-notorious drug dealers who flooded the UK and Ireland with cocaine and heroin until he was nabbed in 1996.While behind bars, Liverpool mobster Curtis ‘Cocky’ Warren, killed a fellow inmate and had an illicit affair with a fe...
19:00
2021-05-12
Criminologist Trina O'Connor speaks to Nicola Tallant about the drug dealing at Oliver Bond flats in Dublin's south inner-city.She details how the community is fighting back and why tearing down the complex is not the solution. Hosted on Acast. See acast....
16:32
2021-05-11
CRACK cocaine dealers are running an open drugs supermarket in the flat complex where mob boss Daniel Kinahan grew up.This week, a Sunday World investigation shows how cartel drug dealers are openly selling their product in the inner-city complex where th...
52:44
2021-05-08
He’s the UK’s number-one true crime author who made his name from his conversations with serial killers.But what made former Royal Marine Christopher Berry-Dee want to get up close and personal with the world’s most depraved.?From Aileen Wournos to ...
29:04
2021-05-01
It was the phone hack that rocked the underworld and led to thousands of arrests and record breaking seizures of drugs, guns and dirty money. Yet, Ireland has little to show from the massive Encrochat investigation despite being one of the country’s to ...
11:50
2021-04-28
One week after three men were charged in connection with the Regency Hotel attack and a European Arrest Warrant was issued for Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch, a former Sinn Fein councillor has been brought before the Special Criminal Court charged with the mu...
18:46
2021-04-21
Following the news that a European Arrest Warrant has been issued for Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch in relation to the Regency Hotel attack in 2016, Nicola Tallant chats with journalist Eamon Dillon about the life and crimes of one of Ireland's most infamous...
37:48
2021-04-17
They are the kids who become the soldiers of the criminal gangs.Plucked from the streets and troubled homes, they are groomed to become drug dealers, enforcers and even killers.But according to one of Ireland’s top community workers, criminologist Trina...
18:06
2021-04-14
THE trial of violent Dutch-Moroccan gangster Ridouan Taghi, whose merger with Daniel Kinahan’s mob, the Italian mafia and Eastern European gangs formed a feared super cartel, is finally underway in the NetherlandsAmid some of the tightest security contr...
54:13
2021-04-10
This week Crime World looks at Ireland's multi-million euro vice trade and the ruthless organised crime gangs and pimps who control the women selling sex.There is nothing glamorous about prostitution, where exploitation, fear and manipulation are common-p...
14:50
2021-04-08
This week, Tom and Molly Martens were freed from prison in the US after they were granted bail pending a retrial in the case of the murder of Limerick dad of two Jason Corbett.Jason was beaten to death on August 2, 2015 and the father and daughter served ...
54:17
2021-04-03
John, Keith, Alan, Eric and Luke Wilson were once Ireland’s most feared gangland family who terrorised the underworld and threatened the pillars of the State.Bonded by blood, the five Wilsons operated as guns for hire as they honed their skills as killi...
49:48
2021-03-27
Mary Turner Thomson’s world shattered when she discovered her husband Will was a bigamist, con man and convicted sex offender. Unbeknownst to her, this would be the start of a bold new chapter in her life, fighting to protect other women from his heartl...
54:08
2021-03-20
She is the self-professed gangsters' moll who married a mobster and then wound up in prison for life for the murder of her hard-man lover.But Linda Calvey has turned her own experiences in the underworld into the basis for her new career and as she launch...
Episode 18: The man who brought down Whitey Bulger and exposed the feared mobster as an FBI informer
41:05
2021-03-13
BOSTON gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s role as an FBI informant is a lesson for police forces across the world in how NOT to handle their touts.Brian Kelly, the former US state prosecutor who was the lead counsel against Bulger, tells this week’s...
36:33
2021-03-06
He’s the violent gangster whose merger with Daniel Kinahan’s mob, Italian mafiosa and Eastern European gangs formed a European super cartel.But Dutch Moroccan Ridouan Taghi is now facing the biggest showdown of his life as authorities in the Netherlan...
50:17
2021-02-27
Drug war in Mexico – how the narcos and their violent sicarios are being armed by legally-sold weapons in the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
49:42
2021-02-20
The drug addicts, drop-outs and drifters behind the Hutch-Kinahan murder cells. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
32:37
2021-02-13
New Zealand is the envy of the world but it’s also the most expensive place on earth to buy cocaine and meth, which has fuelled the rise of a dangerous underworld of biker gangs. Journalist Jared Savage tells Crime World about the arrival of meth, the r...
43:20
2021-02-06
Fake covid tests, antique treasures and the theft of precious rhino horns. How the Rathkeale Rovers left their spiritual home in Limerick to become a multi-million mobile organised crime gang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
47:04
2021-01-30
She started her career as a rookie cop on one of Ireland’s first drug units, chasing down heroin dealers like Tony ‘King Scum’ Felloni.Now she is the Chief in charge of the Garda’s Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau – the unit responsible for brin...
49:04
2021-01-23
They are the a-listers of gangland – murderous twins whose faces are iconic images of the underworld. Ronnie and Reggie Kray were immortalised in movies, theatre, television and books but did their crimes match their celebratory? Or did they just get lu...
52:48
2021-01-17
He was the head of the Sinaloa Cartel and for years he was a master of escape using underground tunnels and secret passageways to evade the authorities. But Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman's now spends his days in solitary confinement in t...
40:19
2021-01-10
It was a murder that broke all rules with a male victim, two unlikely killers and a family torn apart. Now the killing of dad Jason Corbett is to be played out again in a US courtroom as murderers Molly Martens and her father Tom make a bid for freedom. B...
35:38
2021-01-03
In this week's Crime World podcast, Nicola Tallant talks to Dr Nicola Fox Hamilton, an expert in cyberpsychology. She talks about online crime and dating during the pandemic. She reveals the dangers that can be hiding behind the faces of attractive strang...
35:18
2020-12-27
Fr Brian D’Arcy was first abused at the age of 9 but he still struggles to deal with the demons of his past more than six decades on. We discuss the Lanzarote Convention, a European agreement against child sex abuse just signed by Ireland. But what does...
57:44
2020-12-20
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 Amore talks about one time heiress, Rose Dugdale, wh...
42:27
2020-12-13
He’s Ireland’s most notorious criminal but as John Gilligan faces Christmas in a Spanish prison we examine if this is the end of the line for the 68 year old. Nicola Tallant talks to INM Chief Reporter Conor Feehan about the life and crimes of Gilliga...
35:10
2020-12-06
The secret past of Godfather of Crime George ‘The Penguin’ Mitchell is forming part of an intriguing trial into a dark net bunker and a Dutchman called Herman Xennt.This week on Crime World Ed Caesar of the New Yorker explains how Mitchell and Xennt...
50:24
2020-11-29
Cocaine starts out as a leaf on a tree but how does it get from the jungles of Colombia to the streets of Ireland? How many people die and who gets rich along the way?In this week's episode of Crime World, Nicola Tallant talks to film-maker Toby Muse and ...
35:50
2020-11-22
Is jail just a finishing school for criminals? And just what is it like to be behind bars? Nicola Tallant talks to Fr Brian D’Arcy, whose work has brought him into some of the most notorious jails in Ireland. He describes the sounds and smells of priso...
43:10
2020-11-16
Two gangland murders. A missing fugitive. And a former Scotland Yard Detective intent on hunting him down.This week on Crime World Nicola Tallant talks to Peter Bleksley about suspect Kevin Parle who has remained on the run for more than 15 years. We hear...
1:37
2020-11-11
Crime World Introduction by Nicola Tallant Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....