Niall Donald

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Rex Ryan remembers having a bit of banter with Gerry Hutch outside the local shop when he was just a kid growing up in Clontarf.

But now, more than two decades later, the actor-director is playing the alleged crime boss in his one-man show The Monk.

Today I'm speaking to Rex about talking to Gerry Hutch in prison, the controversy over the play and the public's endless fascination with The Monk.

I'm Niall Donald and this is Crime World, a podcast from crimeworld.com.

modern-day criminal godfather.

So in November 2022, me and Nicola sat regularly in her car and reported from the special criminal court where Jerry Hutch was on trial.

And of course, many people thought at that point he was going to be found guilty.

Then a couple of years later, we had him in where you're sitting doing an interview, which many people thought would never happen.

And now we have yourself, Rex Ryan, sitting in that seat, playing Gerry Hutch in a one man play you've produced, which I think many people never would have envisaged making the theatre.

It's still an incredible story, isn't it?

The story of Gerard Hutch.

Tell us how the idea came about.

And of course, you lived, you're his neighbour.

I suppose, what was your first memory of the monk?

He was Mr. Hutch.