Niall Donald

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Brian Grendon has absolute control over Ireland's biggest drugs gang a court was told this week, the couple who have been jailed for cat-napping, the woman who taunted her relative over a miscarriage and the Pope accused of being soft on crime by Donald Trump.

Today I'm talking to Eimear Rabbit about the stories that caught our readers' eyes this week on crimeworld.com.

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

So welcome back to the wrap up, Eimear.

Thanks.

You've been off for so long and so many Fridays and stuff.

Was it not two, no?

Yeah.

A little bit of a career break.

Because you took an extra Saturday as well.

Did you not know?

Okay, well, so in your absence, obviously people had to work really hard, you know.

But one of the stories that really came up this week as you came back, because the courts start up again.

Easter is a terrible time for... It's the worst time of journalism.

It is.

Because nothing really happens.

Obviously the field protests were there but it's not really a crime story.

Guards were involved, etc.

But the court started up this week and...