Nicola Tallent
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19,827 appearances
164 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 2d ago
Nicola Tallent’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Christine is very familiar with the concept.
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She told me she's addicted to all those TV shows that follow seasoned investigators trying to crack decades-old crimes using the very latest of technology and who always have SWAT teams available to take the bad guys down when the case is solved.
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the reality here in Ireland is a little different.
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Retired Chief Superintendent Christy Mangan spent 40 years in the Guards.
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During his career, he was involved in more than 100 murder investigations and was twice awarded the Scott Medal for bravery.
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He also helped to set up Ireland's first cold case unit, or as it's officially called, the Serious Crime Review Team.
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Those investigating a case will often put their heart and their soul into trying to bring the perpetrators to justice, working long hours for months at a time with usually very limited resources and often while also working on other cases at the same time.
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Chasing every avenue they can think of to try to make sure families of those murdered can rest assured that absolutely everything was done to catch their killer.
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But sometimes it's just not enough.
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And while no one, unless they've had the misfortune to experience something similar, can ever imagine the torment Christine Campbell has lived through since Anthony was killed, there is one man who lives every day with the knowledge that despite his best efforts, the people responsible for shooting the baby-faced plumber have never served a day for their crime.
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And it torments him too.
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It's one of those things.
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That stayed with you.
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It just got you.
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Look, people think that guards, that investigators, that journalists, that we've... Quite hard-nosed.
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Hard-nosed.
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This one did, yeah.
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Yeah.
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And, you know, the thing is that when I started this, talking to Christine, I mean, how many murders are there?
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Each one of them has family and all the trauma.
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