Garda Chief Superintendent Seamus Boland

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211 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 10 Jul

Garda Chief Superintendent Seamus Boland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 8 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 7.

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Crime World · The Science of Fear - Borrowed Time (Episode 7) · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And actually, Freddie Thompson comes to mind as a probably perfect example. voice-verified

Very big public media profile. voice-verified

You know, these people are great for a lot of these groups because they suck up the resources of law enforcement when the reality is that their role isn't as high as even they might like to perceive themselves in public media. voice-verified

within a group. voice-verified

And then in the background and in the shadows, the real work, which is the business, the industry, the not so public profile people who are required to keep that machine going, to keep the money coming in, that they can continue working and millions can be generated. voice-verified

There was a number of different aspects then to dealing with the assassinations. voice-verified

So on one hand, there's the actual investigations that were taking place at a local level when assassinations have taken place. voice-verified

So we're lucky to the extent that there are best practice models of investigations are in on Garda Síochána. voice-verified

So the level of investigation, the professional level voice-verified

approach towards investigations the resources available to those investigation teams are quite significant so the degree of success you know after a period of time for for investigations for murders that have happened is is very high in recent years and a lot of that's advances in the we'd say the investigative techniques but also we have specific voice-verified

high-level training assigned to people who will have a leading role as well as other roles within these investigations, and they are to the best international standards. voice-verified

Crime World · The Science of Fear - The Net Tightens (Episode 6) · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

Green Oak actually came about because of our investigations that we were carrying out surrounding Thomas Cavanagh and his associates in Ireland. voice-verified

And in particular, the identification of Declan Brady as being a person of significance. voice-verified

Declan Brady being the type of person who is an absolute necessity for any organised crime gang. voice-verified

So somebody who's an expert in logistics science, voice-verified

who lives a somewhat apparent normal lifestyle and doesn't engage in law enforcement and isn't written about in the newspapers. voice-verified

So somebody like him can facilitate the industry in itself taking place. voice-verified

So our covert investigations led us to the Green Oak case voice-verified

unit which was eventually searched in January of 2017 at a time when we were at a very high level of threat and we were of the belief that plans were afoot for an attack of some form to take place. voice-verified

You know, what's ultimately important in Green Oak with all the firearms, there was four firearms when our emergency response unit entered by force. voice-verified

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